Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store
Explore the architecture and implementation of Retriever, a custom-built distributed column store database inspired by Facebook's Scuba, designed for efficient querying of large-scale event data.
Level Up Your Concurrency Skills With Rust
Explore Rust's approach to safe concurrent programming, learning how it catches errors at compile time and enhances your skills across languages. Gain insights into race conditions and memory safety.
How to Be a Compiler
Explore how compiling code parallels language learning and creative practices, revealing insights into software engineering and fostering an inclusive tech environment.
The Holy Grail of Systems Analysis - From What to Where to Why
Explore advanced distributed tracing techniques to pinpoint latency issues in complex microservice architectures, moving beyond traditional monitoring approaches for more effective system analysis.
Algorithms That Teach You Math
Explore algorithms designed to teach math step-by-step, optimizing for intuitive explanations rather than speed. Learn about mathsteps, an open-source library for solving and explaining algebra problems.
Key to the City - Writing Code to Induce Social Change
Exploring how software development can address social inequalities through open data, collaboration, and civic tech, with a focus on verifiable solutions and empathy-driven approaches.
Scaling Validation and Quality of Streaming Data Products at Twitter
Explore Twitter's data quality engineering, focusing on scaling validation, stress testing, and innovative tools for maintaining high-quality streaming data products in a distributed architecture.
The Performance Engineer's Guide to Java HotSpot
Explore Java HotSpot VM optimizations, JIT compilation, and garbage collection techniques to enhance application performance and efficiency in server systems.
The Security of Classic Game Consoles
Explore classic game console security measures, their exploits, and lessons for modern software. Journey through gaming history to understand hardware, media, and software protection techniques.
The Lux Programming Language
Explore Lux: a functional, statically-typed Lisp for multiple platforms. Learn about its features, philosophy, and potential impact on programming paradigms and meta-programming.
Building Switches Like Servers - The Strange World of Overlapping Networking
Explore Facebook's innovative approach to network infrastructure, focusing on disaggregating hardware and software for large-scale data centers and the operational challenges encountered.
Incident Insights from NASA, NTSB, and the CDC
Explore incident handling practices from NASA, NTSB, and CDC to improve software system recovery and prevent recurring failures in an increasingly automated world.
Empowering the Next Billion with OSTree, Flatpak, NDN, and the Cloud
Explorando herramientas innovadoras como OSTree, Flatpak y NDN para empoderar a la próxima generación de usuarios en regiones con conectividad limitada y reducir la brecha digital global.
Stop Rate Limiting - Capacity Management Done Right
Explore capacity management alternatives to rate limiting, using Little's Law and concurrency control for better API performance and resource isolation in microservices architectures.
Immutable Data Science with Datomic, Spark and Kafka
Explore innovative data science architecture using Datomic, Spark, and Kafka for scalable real-time analysis without traditional ETL, offering immutability, multi-database querying, and horizontal read scalability.
When "Worst" is Best in Distributed Systems
Explore how designing distributed systems for worst-case network behavior can paradoxically improve typical performance, with practical lessons for web, transaction processing, and database applications.
Propositions as Types
Explore the profound connection between logic and computation, delving into the Propositions as Types principle and its impact on theorem provers, programming languages, and computing frontiers.
How to Have Your Causality and Wall Clocks, Too
Explore distributed monotonic clocks for causality and wall clock time synchronization in microservices. Learn about implementation, protocols, and applications in distributed systems.
Teaching Kids Programming at the IOT Farm
Discover innovative techniques for teaching kids programming through collaborative, real-world projects like IoT-enabled urban farming, inspiring young minds to create technology solutions for global challenges.
Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing
Explore unconventional programming through chemical computing metaphors. Learn artificial chemical computing basics, high-order concepts, and innovative problem-solving approaches using Clojure for demonstrations.
I See What You Mean
Exploring query languages for distributed systems programming, focusing on Dedalus and its ability to reason about correctness, consistency, and fault-tolerance in distributed environments.