System Architecture

Creating web standards for AI models means wrestling with questions that didn't exist two years ago. Here's what I've learned building the prompt API and its siblings.

Eight Weeks to a Working Key-Value Storage Engine

wingolog: article: nominal types in webassembly

Inspired by comments under my recent post where I shared my painful experience from reactive code, I'd like to show how simple it is to write streaming code with plain Java API, avoiding reactive streams API altogether. Handling streams of events is the main concern when people discuss whether react

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition:

A practical approach to running expensive accessibility and Lighthouse tests in CI without ballooning your time budget.

Learn how to design an OTel-native backend that seamlessly exports logs, traces, and metrics to any observability stack via OTLP.

Exploring a minimal implementation of a time-sharing kernel on RISC-V, implemented in Zig, on top of OpenSBI.

Overview arguing that OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation removes barriers to full observability by enabling zero-code, kernel-level telemetry

One of my favorite YouTube channels is Reject Convenience. The core premise of the channel is; to engage with the modern technological landscape, consumers need to contend with the tradeoff between convenience and privacy. To be a consumer of any tech product, be it for navigation, entertainment, productivity, or even health, is to cede a treasure trove of data about your lifestyle, habits, and personal thoughts to the Charybdis that is Silicon Valley. The channel focuses on educating consumers about how their privacy is at risk online, available alternatives, and evaluating privacy tools, such as VPNs.

How do you measure product-market fit for a developer tool? A PMF scoring model from Evil Martians—a product development consultancy for developer tools startups—built on data from 37 devtools companies across AI, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Five metrics, real benchmarks, and a dual score that tells you whether to invest in product or go-to-market.

Wire your OpenAPI contract into a Node.js Fastify backend with auto-generated routes, typed handlers, and request validation—no manual route definitions, no type drift, no integration surprises.

We present the 5500FP, a 24-trit balanced ternary RISC processor implemented on FPGA, with a 120-instruction ISA, native atomic synchronization primitives, and an open hardware development board. The design demonstrates the practical feasibility of balanced ternary computing on modern reconfigurable hardware, providing a concrete platform for research into non-binary architectures without the barrier of custom silicon development.

I’ve said in the past that AI will enable new kinds of applications—but I’ve never had the imagination to guess what those new applications would be. I don’t

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

What is the data structure of procedural roads?

Modern kernel anti-cheat systems are, without exaggeration, among the most sophisticated pieces of software running on consumer Windows machines. They operate at the highest privilege level available to software, they intercept kernel callbacks that were designed for legitimate security products, they scan memory structures that most programmers never touch in their entire careers, and they do all of this transparently while a game is running. If you have ever wondered how BattlEye actually catches a cheat, or why Vanguard insists on loading before Windows boots, or what it means for a PCIe DMA device to bypass every single one of these protections, this post is for you.

The MCP AuthN/Z Nightmare

A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.

Dear ImGui homepage

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies - ocornut/imgui

scheduling algorithm for network transmissions

queue management algorithm for computer network packets

Media over QUIC: Watch a live broadcast.