System Architecture

This is a guest post from our close partners, Semantic Machines By Zachary Tellman Conversational interfaces are an idea that is forever on the cusp of transforming the world. The potential is undeniable: everyone has innate, untapped conversational expertise. We could do away with the nested menus required by visual interfaces; anything the user can […]

So e of the work going on in the open source hardware movement.

The ongoing consolidation in AI is incredible. Thread: ➡️ When I started ~decade ago vision, speech, natural language, reinforcement learning, etc. were completely separate; You couldn't read papers across areas - the approaches were completely different, often not even ML based.

An introduciton to software fuzzing

Avoiding centralization is an important goal for Internet protocols. This document offers a definition of centralization, discusses why it is necessary for Internet protocol designers to consider its risks, identifies different kinds of centralization, catalogues some limitations of current approaches to controlling it, and recommends best practices for protocol designers.

We all know the saying "It works on my machine". It's a good practice to take the testing beyond the...

A story of a seek.com.au outage in May 2021 involving Transit Gateways, Peering connections, and lots of learnings about TCP, MTUs & MSS

Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.

We examine APU vs. CPU vs. GPU in this tutorial to determine which is better for gaming and also take a look at a CPU + GPU combo.

Search through billions of items for similar matches to any object, in milliseconds. It’s the next generation of search, an API call away.

Power for the people, and AI

Posted on Thursday 9 Dec 2021. 409 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Another AWS outage highlights the need to fully understand both the way applications are built and cloud services are delivered.

When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one

My experience building APIs at Vendasta.

Data Lakes and Data Warehouses are meant to store huge volumes of data. But how they do it sets them apart.

In addition to the LLVM SPIR-V back-end appearing ready for merging, also working through the final steps for being mainlined in the LLVM compiler stack is also Facebook's BOLT project for optimizing the performance of binaries.

Nearly all third-party container applications deployed in cloud infrastructure contain vulnerabilities, stated a report by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.

What can we do with just thirty pixels? With Progressive Web Apps blurring the lines between apps and websites, Patrick Brosset helps us think outside of the rectangular box. Learn how Windows Cont…

Gaphor is a UML, SysML, RAAML, and C4 modeling application written in Python. It is designed to be easy to use, while still being powerful. Gaphor implements a fully-compliant UML 2 data model, so it is much more than a picture drawing tool. You can use Gaphor to quickly visualize different aspects of a system as well as create complete, highly complex models.

Gaphor is a free and open source modeling application with support for various modeling languages such as UML, SysML, RAAML and C4.

Google is looking to upstream their Linux kernel driver for Open Profile for DICE, a secret derivation protocol used currently by some Android devices.

As Red Hat sunsets CentOS 8 at the end of 2021, users are considering their options.

You can tell powerful stories with data, but so often we are faced with raw data (albeit beautifully presented), and are left to create our own narratives. My previous attempts at turning data into stories have been time consuming and underwhelming. In this post I demonstrate how GPT-3, a new and advanced language model, can construct engaging and unique stories from user-specific data, with relative ease.

I give a lot of talks about performance and in those talks, I tend to emphasize the architectural impact of your choices. There is a huge tendency to focus o...