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That staggering growth of cloud computing offers unprecedented opportunities. But problems cloud-based companies will have to solve are far reaching.

Posts in this series: A Primer Document Coordination Document Example Dispatching Example Failures and Retries Failure Recovery Sagas Relational Resources Conclusion Sample code from this series So far in this series we've mainly concerned ourselves with a single resource that can't support distributed (or multi-entity) transactions. While that is becoming

Life Beyond Distributed Transactions - Xebia

The enterprise metaverse is about better collaboration, not virtual meetings.

These projects will motivate you to experiment and build new open-source projects

In Work on what matters, I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club. It was, dear reader, not the right time to start a book club.

Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there

When Apple bought Dark Sky, it was apparent that the days for one of the best-designed, data-dense, and yet visually simple apps were numbered. It is a shame, considering Apple’s weather app …

“This will be a thread discussing a real world breach involving a drone delivered exploit system that occurred this summer Some details I am not able to discuss, however for the blue teams & red teams out there I hope this provides a good measure of capability. 🧵🚁 🎮🖥️🦠”

Hyperautomation may only be a buzzword, but automating business systems with AI is an important trend.

It’s imperative that we guarantee users freedom of movement across a diverse variety of worlds with a persistent digital identity.

Microprocessors are shaping up to be the crude oil of the 21st century..

As teams integrate ML/AI models into production systems running at-scale, they’re increasingly encountering a new obstacle: high GPU costs from running

The Postgres-compatible database and stream processor ingests data from multiple sources and delivers capabilities previously only found in batch-based systems.

Just like a veteran restaurant manager, developers must constantly scan our environment for cues of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Posted on Monday 10 Oct 2022. 1,127 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

This post asks if we can remove Alpine from our PETAL stack. Can we do everything we need with just LiveView? Let's explore an area we can still improve.

It’s not difficult to see how distributed systems have enabled our connected, digital economy. But beware of the complexity.

In Critical Digital Services: An Under-Studied Safety-Critical Domain, John Allspaw asks: Critical digital services has yet to experience its “Three-Mile Island” event. Issuch an accident necessary…

The end of classical Computer Science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

Or yet another rant about YAML

The Emacs Problem Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ Charles G. pointed out in an email discussion recently: Lisp still doesn't seem like the right language for doing text manipulation, and nothing I've seen from the Emacs libraries is making me think any differently. It sure beats the hell out of Java

Posted on 2022-10-10