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TL;DR: I set up Minikube on an old (2012) MacBook Air and configured it to be able to connect from outside my home network so I would have an always-on Kubernetes cluster at home to experiment with.
Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. For people interested in building easy to use software, understanding the causes of…
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The hard realities of distributed systems, partial failures, network faults, and unpredictable latency, and how Amazon designs to handle them.
A recent trend in our industry is the software architecture move from a monolith app to microservices, often with a related blog post explaining how much better everything is after. A recent blog post by neo-bank Monzo explains that they have reached the crazy amount of 1500 microservices (a ratio of ~10 microservices…
Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package
A few weeks back, I was at XDC and gave a talk about various current and past input stack developments (well, a subset thereof anyway). On...
Whenever I have a chance, I extol the virtues of message-passing and event-loops in structuring concurrent workflows in Rust. However, in…
They are popular and they are misunderstood. Containers have become the default way applications are packaged and run on servers, initially popularized by Docker. Now, Docker itself is misunderstoo…
PostgreSQL 13 development is coming along nicely, Postgres 13 Beta3 was released on 8/13/2020 . The Postgres Beta 1 and 2 releases were released in May and June 2020. One of the features that has my interest in Postgres 13 is the B-Tree deduplication effort. B-Tree indexes are the default indexing method in Postgres…
In 1996, the Turing-award-winning computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare wrote a paper with the title How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? In this paper, Hoare grapples with the observation tha…
Explore the internals of the BEAM VM in comparison to the JVM, highlighting the significance of understanding these components.
Vacuum is one of the sub-systems in PostgreSQL which gets improved with each release. I have checked past five releases and each has qu...
io_uring is a clever new, high-performance interface for asynchronous I/O for Linux without the drawbacks of the aio set of APIs. In this 3-part article series, we look at how to use io_uring to ge…
I used OpenBSD on the original Surface Go back in 2018 and many things worked with the big exception of the internal Atheros WiFi. This meant I had to keep it tethered to a USB-C dock for Ethernet or use a small USB-A WiFi dongle plugged into a less-than-small USB-A-to-USB-C adapter.
Here is my test file tree. There are two files and a "src" subdirectory, where another two files are stored:
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
Why TOAST is the best thing since sliced bread
Google Cloud will now offer the ability to encrypt data in use, while it’s being processed in a Google data center
The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You
Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how mathematicians were going to conquer the world.
Databases are fabulous resources. Of course, we’ll abuse them in ways that cause challenges.
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
Learn to predict how your application will behave in times of failure and how to configure every parameter for your Semian circuit breaker.
