System Architecture

TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication and collaboration on software development. At Spotify, we have an incredibly complex network of thousands of interlinked software systems owned by hundreds of teams, so having a simple way to visualize these connections is essential. While capturing all [...]

GNU's framework for secure p2p networking

GNU's framework for secure p2p networking

A crash in a development version of flowtrackd (the daemon that powers our Advanced TCP Protection) highlighted the fact that libxdp (and specifically the AF_XDP part) was not Linux network namespace aware. This blogpost describes the debugging journey to find the bug, as well as a fix.

As an open-source maintainer, I always put effort into documenting all known edge cases so that users know how to fix problems. So, whenever users report incompatibilities, we highlight them in our documentation. Still, I realized this approach wasn’t working when users came to our Slack asking for help with problems we had already documented.

We decided to test all possible scenarios to identify how GitHub’s CODEOWNERS file can be configured and misconfigured. The bottom line is that what seems to be configured properly misbehaves with different settings. This blog post highlights these scenarios and provides tips to mitigate them.

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Unsure how to design and implement user-interface patterns? Use this collection of links to our content about specific patterns.

You probably have a great product. You’ve done your usability deeds and you have a few core customers who regularly use your product. However, it just doesn’t stick out from the competition. It has a **high bounce rate**, only few users return, users abandon your product faster than you would like and, in general, users never get far enough to experience all that your product has to offer.

One of the most popular languages for infrastructure-as-code is becoming Typescript. AWS CDK, Hashicorp CDK, Pulumi, and more support Typescript as a first-class citizen. How did we go from writing frontend components to cloud development kits? A technical look at the requirements of infrastructure-as-code languages. * A strongly typed system is

Transitioning a project from private to public development means more than just changing the visibility of the GitHub repositories.

It has been almost two years since infrastructure software maker Progress Software spent $220 million to buy Chef, the open source automation tech vendor

There is no shortage of Metaverse papers and articles as it is the latest trend in the long list of technologies promising to change the wor...

I am fortunate enough to work on a production Rust service (a real one, not cryptocurrency nonsense). Rust virtually eliminates the kinds of stupid bugs and gotchas that are endemic in other languages, making it much easier to develop and maintain our project. Unfortunately, Rust is substantially less capable when it comes to preventing the common issues involved in async programming. In fact, async programming is substantially harder to get right in Rust than in something like Javascript, due to the decision to make task spawning explicit for performance reasons.

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XKCD #1425 I was reading a book on a lazy Sunday afternoon when I learnt something that completely changed the way I looked at one of the iconic movies from my childhood – Toy Story. This was…

This OIDC and SAML comparison will shed some light on the technicalities to help you make an educated move.

In the first part of this two-part series, find out what code predictability is and how to apply it to your Elixir code.

John, my producer, rounded up a first rate crew and talented local actors for the video production the game would require. Given his…

Tutorial showing how to use the modern HTML Over the Wire — and Hotwire specifically — approach with the classic Ruby on Rails framework.

This post introduces the backstage stories of TiDB and its HTAP capability.

You'll read about some thoughts I had of PostCSS before I learned what it was. Here are the things you may be thinking about PostCSS now.

David Clark is a web developer and this is where he writes about developing the web.

For the past several years, Design Thinking has been providing a way to enhance problem solving within teams, to ensure learning goals are met, and to increase team engagem

Documentation for the Tailwind CSS framework.

Running oneAPI C++ with SYCL code on Intel Arc and Iris Xe GPUs

Think of your top five favourite products — Your Apple iPhone? Your Bose speakers? Your Apple macbook? Your Nike runners? You might be wondering what all of these products have in common. Despite the fact that they serve purposes that are either technology based, comfort based, health based etc., they all share the common feature of […]

Fast Company articles and posts tagged innovation by design 2019 with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.

Draft concept for Resilience Tech Report 2023 Technologies for achieving greater resilience have risen due to macroscopic shifts in climate change and societal disruptions that are worsening. In the inaugural #ResilienceTech Report, Maeda highlighted the industries built around how businesses, individuals, and countries meet these rising challenges. The 2022 report's unfortunate takeaway was that despite