System Architecture

A recently released survey points to how service mesh is seen as essential for the majority of organizations working with microservices and Kubernetes. At the same time, a survey of readers of The New Stack shows there are indications that service mesh is even becoming boring, or at the very least, a subject that readers […]

Felienne Hermans has developed a set of research-based guidelines that will, in her words, "help you to get better at naming things," at least in the realm of software development.

Create, maintain and consume Protocol Buffers APIs with our modern Protocol Buffers ecosystem

Makefiles are a venerable, reliable, and widely used technology, but wouldn’t it be great if a Makefile could generate help about all of its targets? This post describes a way to do not only that, but also to create an interactive interface into your Makefile, using just fzf, ripgrep, and jq.

The table Also available in PDF form. The online test A web application is available to assess your own skills according to this table for one or more programming languages. How to use this table The table characterizes the proficiency level (columns) of programmers of a particular programming language in …

Cyber threat landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and defending against these modern cyber threats is a monumental challenge.

With billing, the devil is in the details. In this article, Raffi provides a high-level view of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing (based on both 'subscription' and 'usage') at 5x unicorn Qonto.com, and what we learned the hard way in this journey.

Presenting the fork of asyncpg — asynchronous PostgreSQL client for Python — based on NumPy structured arrays

Puter is a cloud operating system. Store, open, and edit your files from anywhere at any time in the cloud.

In this article we look at why when store and query data using a graph database such as Neo4j, you can quickly surface critical information, and possibly expose potentially catastrophic issues hidden within complex datasets.

Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.

What is a decision tree? What is a random forest? How do they decide to split the data? How do they predict class labels in classification…

Guest post by Jan Van Bruggen, Developer Relations Lead at itopia In the past decade, we’ve seen the rise, standardization and meme-ification of “as code”: Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code…

Building Software and Processes for Unreliable Scenarios

This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following components: Distributed Storage Usually, this component has an interface of a key-value store: Get(key) and Set(key, value), where key and value are some binary strings.

For a few years, serverless has been pushed hard by the different cloud providers as a magical solution for all our problems. Before we get too far, let's clarify things. Here we are talking about serverless functions: AWS lambda or Scaleway Serverless Functions, where you upload a simple .zip file

Decentralized identity can give everyone an identity in cyberspace—a digital concept with deeply human roots.

I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection…

Design Axioms by Juhan Sonin.

FusionAuth is a scalable, identity and user management platform built for devs. Run it on any computer anywhere in the world.

The design should not only be concerned with beauty, but it should also be functional.

Refactoring is a controllable process of improving code without creating new functionality. Design Patterns are typical solutions to the commonly occurring problems in software design.

I've previously blogged about the unexpected complications of minor features , which covers how adding a seemingly small software change can turn out to be much...