System Architecture

Things come, and rarely go.

Mux uses Envoy networking proxy within its Kubernetes clusters to solve known load-balancing issues with gRPC requests and long-lived HTTP/2 connections.

Chapter 7. The Blockchain Introduction The blockchain data structure is an ordered, back-linked list of blocks of transactions. The blockchain can be stored as a flat file, or in a … - Selection from Mastering Bitcoin [Book]

Build a quick and simple blockchain in Python

The ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system, and enhance it with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features & more

Explaining the Database Plus concept, its impact on system architecture design and technology selection, and its innovative solutions.

As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license

No matter what level of openness your cloud service operates on, you have choices for your own environment.

Passwordless bliss may finally be reality soon

For the past decade or so, unless enterprises wanted to build more of their own datacenters, the cloud providers were the only game in town to tackle new

Are you just starting out how to code, or do you have a few months experience and looking for newer opportunities and technologies? Maybe…

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What doesn’t help software development, hurts it

For technical startups, early marketing efforts are mostly developer relations — and it's up to the founders to do it. So how should you get started? #startups #DevRel #techfounders

The Reactathon event was held this week. One of the highlights was Shawn Swyx Wang's presentation that we’re in the third age of JavaScript.

Alexander J. Hartemink is a Professor of Computer Science and Biology at Duke University, with research interests in computational regulatory genomics and machine learning.

True believers really can bring about resurrections, it seems

It’s an optimistic story: sometimes it’s easy to do something that initially seemed hard and knowledge-intensive, and everything just works

It’s been over 3 years since I published my most successful blog post about the abject horror of templated yaml and in many ways, I feel the same way now

Five Trans-Neptunian Objects to Join Character Set By Deborah Anderson, Chair of Unicode Script Ad Hoc Committee In January 2022, th...

PEOPLE LIKE to think about the distinction between RISC and CISC processors as being about some specific set of features or some magical limit on number of instructions or transistors. Let us get…

Mozilla Firefox 100 is a significant release, marking 17 years of development, and all the exciting feature additions over the years.

John Palowitch and Anton Tsitsulin, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph Mining team Graphs are very common representations of na...

Jetpack Compose is the modern UI-tooling from Google. It’s first stable release was in July 2021 and so far, many Kotlin developers are…

May is National Inventors Month. This got me thinking about one of my all-time favorite ideas related to invention and prototyping. I tell the story in my latest book, Tips and Tales from the Works…

Now that the world has standardized on Kubernetes as the cloud-native control plane, the next phase of innovation will be on the data plane.