System Architecture

Growing a team? Learn the Law of Scaling, the prerequisites for scalability, and the 2 paradoxes that make scaling up hard.

Organising work in one way optimises for low latency; in another for throughput.

CloudBees sponsored this post. We all know how traffic bottlenecks are a major disruption in our daily lives, causing delays during our commutes and preventing us from getting to our destination on time. Corporate bottlenecks can cause similar issues, dragging out the timelines for budgets being passed and projects getting started. Software bottlenecks cause the…

There are many benefits of agile software development, including the ability to accelerate growth, foster developer autonomy, and respond to changing customer needs faster, all while creating a company culture that embraces innovation. But, while we're still bickering over what is precisely agile and what precisely isn't, some feel left behind. From middle management to whole…

In synthetic benchmarks, you can achieve a high throughput for your system by throwing lots of independant tasks/clients at it to see what the theoretical limit of your system is, however in real world situations, the throughput you achieve is often much, much lower. One of of the explanations

Simple as it may be, Little's law is an incredibly powerful tool in the arsenal of almost any team. From performing back-of-the-napkin calculations to showing the performance of a system over time, this formula is one of the key building blocks to running an efficient business. Without Little's law, Lean and Kanban wouldn't exist, and […]

Choosing the right CPU for your system can be a daunting - yet incredibly important - task. The shear number of different models available makes it difficult to determine which CPU will give you the best possible performance while staying within your budget. In this article we will be looking at a way to estimate CPU performance based on a mathematical equation called Amdahl's Law.

Learn about the simple and elegant formula known as Little’s Law and apply it to a vast range of business management and team leadership scenarios.

The Internet Computer is something between a blockchain and a decentralized cloud provider. Ambitiously, it's taking on all of Web 2.0.

OpenTelemetry provides an open standard for generating, collecting and exporting application telemetry across any number of backend systems.

Databases today are built for Big Data. But what happens when the metadata is bigger?

The OpenInfra Foundation's open source, edge-computing cloud stack StarlingX's latest version, StarlingX 6.0 is out and ready to run.

Now that's a shot in the Arm

On winter 2012 I had the chance to attend a talk by Robert.C.Martin(aka Uncle Bob) in Dublin. I think it was awesome. Uncle Bob is the…

Can new strategies get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not?

Except maybe in totalitarian states, you cannot ever have a single publisher. Most large cities had multiple independent newspapers. In recent years, we saw a surge of concentration regarding newspaper and television ownership. However, this was accompanied by a surge of online journalism. The total number of publishers increased, if nothing else. Yet you can … Continue reading The end of the monopolistic web era?

When we dine at a restaurant in the physical world, we do not do so within some administrative system. Rather, as embodied agents, we operationalize our relationships by acting for ourselves. Web3, if built correctly, can help people to act as full-fledged participants in the digital realm.

As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how

In a relatively few short years, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for managing software containers, besting a lineup that

The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which

Anyone doing DevOps work today should be asking, “Are the tools we are adopting ready for the heterogeneous hardware future?”

This is a repost of my previous blog article at the old domain. Source code can be found here Theory The central idea behind a regex engine is non-deterministic automata, NFA. While the name is scary

This was originally titled “Rails is not written in Ruby” but based on feedback, I decided to change the title. I’m born and raised in Kraków, a beautiful city in Poland, maybe you’ve heard about it, maybe you’ve even been here. In Poland we speak Polish, which is a really difficult language, it’s actually considered one of the top-10 most difficult languages to learn in the world. In Poland, just like in many other countries, there are regions where dialects are used rather than “the pure” form of the language, and so in my city, we have our own dialect.

Kate Wagner's blog McMansion Hell "hopes to open readers’ eyes to the world around them, and inspire them to make it a better one" by "making examples out of the places we love to hate the most: the s

Or how we took an API endpoint from 16s to 3s.

In an era of instant gratification, 2 seconds can feel like a lifetime. Technology’s made our lives much more convenient — but it’s also…