System Architecture

Ben Syverson has posted a wonderful Twitter thread on design concepts for Apple computers that never came to production. Check the thread here and if you like looking at the Mac design ecosphere, a…

People are attracted to free software for a number of reasons, including price, overall quality, community support, and available features. But, for many of us, the value of free software is to be found in its ability to allow us to actually own and maintain control over our systems. Antifeatures in free software tend not to last long, and free drivers can often unlock capabilities of the hardware that its vendors may not have seen fit to make available. Intel's upcoming "software defined silicon" (SDSi) mechanism may reduce that control, though, by taking away access to hardware features from anybody who has not paid the requisite fees.

This tutorial explains what is Microsoft's Pluton Security Processor, how it's different from TPM 2.0, why you may need it, and when to expect it.

API Documentation

How the mind develops software

Meet Amazon Science’s newest research area.

This document describes the internals of PostgreSQL for database administrators and system developers.

The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.

Some games on a website

An open standard for data-driven blocks

"Embracing Modern C++ Safely" aims to ensure C++ engineers safely apply the modern features of C++11/14 in ways that truly add value to their organizations.

In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager.

Want to build a function by composition, rather than by writing each function long-hand? Come for the crazy, stay for the tea.

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How to structure your Feedly for Threat Intelligence account to optimize your open source threat intelligence

Both file and object storage protocols have a value in modern IT infrastructure. We should be using the right platform for the job.

Next year, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server processors, Nvidia will have all of the compute and networking bases it cares about in the datacenter

“You have to spend money to make money” seems to be the mantra being adopted by Backblaze. The cloud storage and backup provider reported Q4 fiscal 2021 revenues up 28 per cent year-on-year at $18.7m with a net loss of $9.6m. B2 cloud storage revenues were 56 per cent higher at $6.6m while Computer Backup […]

This blog post gives an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and shares some of the learnings gained while building it

Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code

Ockam is a Tool Company. Ockam's open source developer tools make it simple to send trustful end-to-end encrypted messages between connected devices and cloud services.

Does the primitive obsession anti-pattern apply to collections? In other words, should you introduce a custom class for a collection?

The operation of a fine restaurant has uncanny parallels to API life cycle management.