System Architecture

Many things are not what they seem

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How to adopt an evolutionary mindset and use feature requests as a breeding ground for the next generation of the system's architecture

Chances are you might have heard of io_uring. It first appeared in Linux 5.1, back in 2019, and was advertised as the new API for asynchronous I/O. Its goal was to be an alternative to the deemed-to-be-broken-beyond-repair AIO, the “old” asynchronous I/O API

A data mesh can flush out the cobwebs and bring order to an aging model, creating more manageable and scalable data architecture.

A new online documentary from Honeypot.io tells how #Kubernetes was unleashed on the world and sparked a cloud native revolution. #cloudnative #Docker #Google #opensource

Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. And it was a big

Like a lot of people, I used to be a pathological maximalist. A phone with more features is necessarily better, a company with more people is better, a program with more lines of code is better, a house with more stuff is better. Until the day when reality hit me in the face: there is a direct relationship between “more” and “complexity”. The more a system is big and complex, the more we use our (limited) time and energy to do useless, busy work.

3 years ago, I started developing Swords & Ravens , an open-source online multi-player adaptation of a strategy board game I love, A Game of Thrones: The…

Whether we call it supercloud or distributed cloud, it serves the same need: simplifying the reality of operating in a multi-cloud world and making it possible to realize the aspirational capabilities of cloud.

Loading a BPF program into the kernel involves a lot of steps, including verification, permissions checking, linking to in-kernel helper functions, and compilation to the native instruction format. Underneath all of that, though, lies one other simple task: allocating some memory to store the compiled BPF program in the kernel's address space. It turns out that this allocation can be somewhat wasteful of memory in current kernels, especially on systems where large numbers of BPF programs are loaded. This patch set from Song Liu seeks to remedy this problem by introducing yet another specialized memory allocator into the kernel.

Google Chrome is prioritising third parties over end users.

Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency

Spacelift is the CI/CD for infrastructure-as-code and policy as code. It enables collaboration, automates manual work and compliance, and lets teams customize and automate their workflows.

Pentests or Penetration testing is ethical hacking that is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate ...

What is a Metaverse? There is a real answer — aka the science fiction answer. And there is an answer you will get from Zuck and his acolytes. They are busy rearchitecting the company away from soci…

Short term becomes the long term if you keep doing it

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Iris is a new way to measure and evolve technology skills. She powers our assessment algorithm and guides you to the skills you need now. The more you learn about technology, the more Iris learns about you. She uses data to create a smarter, personalized skill development journey.

We made a X86 virtual machine that runs in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization solution.

We can't predict the future, but we can extrapolate some of it. Tech giants have unveiled their vision of the future. Some seem optimistic, a few far-fetched, and others are just plain virtual dystopian. However, there is a vision out there that rarely gets the spotlight.

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Stagnated cybersecurity progress is contributing to more cyberattacks and increased threats. Here's how organizations can get back on track.

Kusk automates generation of resources for various ingress controllers by treating your OpenAPI Specification as the source of truth for configuration.