System Architecture

Building a tech stack involves more than selecting the latest technologies, integrating them, and expecting your organization, department, or team to improve the way they operate. Before investing in a new software or application, business leaders should consider the following:

Chipmaker Nvidia is finally taking steps to improve the compatibility of its GPUs with Linux after years of largely ignoring users of the open source OS. Nvidia has open sourced GPU kernel modules for Linux so coders can write applications for more efficient execution on the company’s GPUs. “Canonical and SUSE can immediately package the […]

It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google

Nobl9 has released an open specification for defining SLOs and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology.

By having a library in the client application, we can handle faults consistently, increasing the perceived availability of the system

Overview Subsetting is a common technique used in load balancing for large-scale distributed systems. In this blog post, we will briefly introduce Uber’s current service mesh architecture that has been powering thousands of critical microservices in Uber since 2016. We will then discuss the challenges we faced when trying to scale the number of tasks in the mesh and issues with our initial subsetting approach. We’ll finish with how we came up with the real-time dynamic subsetting solution and its results in production.   Dictionary Here are a few generic terms that we’ll be using throughout the article: A (micro)

Although mysterious, Dark was clearly set up to talk REST and, in their words, Dark is a new way of building serverless backends.

With edge computing becoming the new norm, distributed DNS implementations are set to become the foundation for the new generation of real-time applications.

Declarative and intentional. So maybe ?

The issue with systems that do not ‘fail’ is that they have no fixes when they eventually fail.

How we rebuilt our card processor

None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.

Allowing groups to self-organize, set their own agendas, and decide without central guidance or planning requires being vulnerable and trusting. But the results are worth the risk.

Calm technology is maintained by Amber Case

"A simplified deployment model and API layer aimed at lighter use cases," the project maintainers promise.

It's raining databases.

Just one month ago, shortly before acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk polled his 92.5 million followers to see if they approved of this idea: Convert Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters to a homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway. Amazon founder/billionaire Jeff Bezos responded, suggesting Twitter could just devote a portion of its headquarters, like when […]

Coming up with a strategy specific to your software's needs

In a programming language like C# or Java, you tell the computer what to do, in order. Get the customers from California, then get their invoices, then sum the total. SQL, on the other hand, is a declarative language where you declare the shape of your result set: Get the total sales from Californian customers....

Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard

When is it best to reach for query objects and how can we best structure them?