System Architecture

From handles to hosting.

OSWALD is a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) design built exclusively on object storage primitives. It works with any object storage service that…

Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in point the PostgreSQL database and its – Ada-based – PL/pgSQL p…

Official Copy: Final report of Doug Engelbart's in-depth study on augmenting human intellect and human effectiveness: a unifying framework for what makes us collectively capable and effective, a design strategy for systematically improving this capability, and proposed research agenda. Early research results include these pioneering firsts https://engelbart.org/Firsts. Serving as his guiding vision throughout his career, this report outlines a call to action still relevant today.

Have you ever wondered how to build the most stable application in the world? What characteristics does such an application have, and what architecture styles make it possible?

The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo.

#92: Understanding API Versioning Strategies (14 Minutes)

Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.

Explore VXLAN, GRE, NVGRE, and GENEVE in this expert guide to network virtualization and overlay protocols for scalable, secure cloud networking.

By Jun He, Yingyi Zhang, Ely Spears

Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries.

Sean Rhodes, Firmware Engineer at Star Labs, shares the journey of building Linux-first laptops and mini PCs backed by open firmware. From the early days as a side project to surviving supply chain crises and choosing coreboot over AMI BIOS, Sean explains what it takes to create reliable hardware for the open source community.

Radio DIY kit low-power amplitude-modulated radio transmitter for local broadcasting in a limited radius from an arbitrary signal source

The large number of product variants generates high complexity costs in the supply chain. Learn more about countermeasures and opportunities.

These costs are often the single biggest factor determining profitability.

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

#91: Learn Everything About Apache Kafka’s Architecture, Including Brokers, KRaft, Topic Partitions, Tiered Storage, Exactly Once, Kafka Connect, Kafka Schema Registry and Kafka Streams

By Prudhviraj Karumanchi, Samuel Fu, Sriram Rangarajan, Vidhya Arvind, Yun Wang, John Lu

This post presents the material (papers and presentation slides) from the third edition of the eBPF workshop at ACM SIGCOMM 2025.

IBM’s global Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 provides up-to-date insights into cybersecurity threats and their financial impacts on organizations.

Cost of Complexity is key to enable Balanced Decisions regarding your Product Architecture. Download an Excel Template to help you with your Analysis!

Complex IT complexity costs enterprises millions, draining resources and stifling innovation. A modern, API-driven approach can cut costs and drive agility.

Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, fu…

356, 11.16 and a future 0.1.0 ?

Weeknotes 357 - A short newsletter announcing a vacation break and short thoughts of the last weeks.

Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.