System Architecture

The problem with three separate pillars of observability is how we use them. To be useful, we have to bring all of the tools together.

In the world of constantly evolving data, one question often pops up: How is it possible to seamlessly replicate data that is growing exponentially and coming from an increasing number of sources? This article explains some of the foundational open source technologies that may help commoditize database replication tasks into data warehouses, lakes, or other databases.

Intel foresees the CXL bus enabling rack-level disaggregation of compute, memory, accelerators storage and network processors, with persistent memory on the CXL bus as well. This was revealed when Intel presented a keynote pitch on the Compute Express Link (CXL) at the IEEE Hot Interconnects event. CXL is based on the coming PCIe Gen-5.0 bus […]

The 21st century has defined itself as the era of innovation, with the world moving to adopt modern-day technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. These two are among the big four technologies of the century together with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big data.  While all these emerging…

The use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is ubiquitous on today's internet, though that has largely happened over the last 20 years or so; the first public version of its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), appeared in 1995. Before then, internet protocols were generally not encrypted, thus providing fertile ground for various types of "meddler-in-the-middle" (MitM) attacks. Later on, the STARTTLS command was added to some protocols as a backward-compatible way to add TLS support, but the mechanism has suffered from a number of flaws and vulnerabilities over the years. Some recent research, going by the name "NO STARTTLS", describes more, similar vulnerabilities and concludes that it is probably time to avoid using STARTTLS altogether.

If you have been using Netflix for some time, you now know that not every Netflix movie is available for you to watch. This is mainly…

The edge essentially has become the third leg on the stool that is the IT world, joining on-premises data centers and the cloud.

Do’s and Don'ts when Designing for the Community

Most of the activities IT performs aren't strategic. Like clean sheets, they're important, but not differentiating. How do you determine what's strategic? Evaluate the domains of your business.

Gabriel Weinberg doesn't want to blow up the internet. He just wants to blow up the trackers.

The General Hash Function Algorithm library contains implementations for a series of commonly used additive and rotative string hashing algorithm in the Object Pascal, C and C++ programming languages

There are many mysteries still to unravel in the world of quantum mechanics, but scientists at Northeastern believe they've made a "holy grail" discovery that could help pave the way for the next generation ...

Too complex? Owned by Google? Myth of portability?

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A discussion of Istio's control plane components, its utilization of service mesh architecture, and the capabilities these bring to microservices developers.

Incrementally routing traffic to newer version of service

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is an architectural paradigm where behavior is composed by reacting to events.

WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events - Which is best for your realtime application? What are the pros, cons and ideal use cases? Read on to find out.

Today Arm announces its newest addition to the Cortex-M series, the new Cortex M55. In addition to the new CPU microarchitecture which brings several...

If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. As architected