System Architecture

Describing an API according to the OpenAPI Specification comes with a wide variety of benefits for maintaining APIs in production, and keeping docs automatically synchronized with your live API. You don't have to start over designing your API in order to adopt the OpenAPI standard! If you already have an

There was a time when care had to be taking when buying hardware if the goal was to run Linux on it. The situation has improved considerably in recent decades, and unsupported hardware is more the exception than the rule. That has, for many years, been especially true of Intel hardware; that company has made a point of ensuring that its offerings work with Linux. So it is a bit surprising that the IPU6 image processor shipped with Alder Lake CPUs lacks support in Linux, and is unlikely to get it anytime soon. The problem highlighted here goes beyond just Intel, though.

It is fair to say that some projects are rather more concerned about preserving ABI compatibility than others; the GNU C Library (glibc) project stands out even among those that put a lot of effort into preserving interface stability, So it may be a bit surprising that a recent glibc change is being blamed for breaking a number of applications, most of which are proprietary games. There is, it seems, a class of glibc changes that can break applications, but which are not deemed to be ABI changes.

Many of us use one-time passwords (OTP) regularly to log into different services. Most probably rely on Google Authenticator and similar tools. But what about building one by ourselves?

Rocketry has a unique take on scheduling using a condition system. This enables arbitrary scheduling with readable syntax.

How to make container images better? What does a better container image really mean? Image size vs the number of vulnerabilites. Pros and cons of using Alpine as a base image. Alpine and distroless alternatives.

The New Stack has been keeping a close eye on eBPF for a few years now, calling the technology one of the top trends of 2020. If you haven't heard of eBPF before, chances are you are about to hear a lot more about it, as Microsoft said this week that it was bringing it…

eBPF is a well-known but revolutionary technology—providing programmability, extensibility, and agility. eBPF has been applied to use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability. Over time, a significant ecosystem of tools, products, and experience has been built up around eBPF. Although support for eBPF was first implemented in the Linux kernel, there has been increasingRead more

WebAssembly is a great technology for porting existing applications to run on a web page. Read along to learn what we had to do to compile our step toolchain to WebAssembly and make it usable on the web.

Pixel Vision 8 is the first customizable 8-bit fantasy console. Don't just make games, design your fantasy console specs to match actual hardware, or create something new. It's perfect for game jams, prototyping ideas, and having fun!

In my last posts I’ve been writing about many of the concepts and principles that I’ve learned and a bit about how I reason about them. But I see these as just pieces of big a puzzle.  …

Choose between ZTNA, ZTAA and ZTA by determining which is the best zero trust security model for your employees, partners and contractors.

Pablo Picasso's The Bull is a series of eleven lithographs created in 1945. It depicts the bull at various stages of abstraction.

Have you tried to remove a dependency from a project and been unsure if you have successfully done so? To “invert a dependency?” To keep...

WebOps aims to bring the DevOps approach to websites, but the tools in content management over-complicate matters.

As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. Red Hat, a

By evaluating latency, Luos manages timelines without synchronization on multiple nodes.

TidalScale has developed a distributed hyperkernel combining different nodes in a cluster of physical servers into a software-defined server.

How did we hook Go functions from Rust to work with mirrord? A quick dive into the Go Runtime and switching from the Go stack to the system stack.

Find me all the things in set "A" that are not in set "B". Paul has some suggestions of when to use the anti-join pattern in queries with some impressive results.

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Learn which data types and operators GIN is useful for and why updating GIN indexes can be expensive.

Decrypting probability questions in data science interviews with style

When is a “sale” a “license?”

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast, Charles Humble talks to Michael Perry about the eight fallacies of distributed computing CAP Theorem, CRDTs, eventual consistency, and his book “The Art of Immutable Architecture”.

Good economics is imperative, and achieving it begins with the knowledge of what bad economics is all about.