ΠΘVΘΠΙΠΞ

Efficiency is often seen as a desirable trait in systems, but it can come at the cost of resilience. This means that in the pursuit of optimizing a system's performance, there may be a trade-off with its ability to withstand and recover from unexpected shocks or disturbances. In other words, a highly efficient system may be more vulnerable to failure when faced with unexpected challenges.

Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems…

When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core…

I’ve recently had cause to work on scaling up a web application. It’s got a pretty traditional architecture: A CDN in front of a fast native…

The simpler and more boring the code is, the more satisfied I am with my work.

The Web3 community are building a world computer. Or rather, many world computers, and many applications atop them.

One of the leading challenges that engineering leaders face is spotting knowledge silos.

A chorus of claps erupted from the adjacent table - piercing the blanket of silence on what was usually a slow Sunday morning. It was an…

There's a common joke that the rite of passage for every Haskell programmer is to write a "monad tutorial" blog post once they think they finally understand with how they work.

This article explores what zero-knowledge proofs are, how they work, and why they are so important to privacy-preserving technology.

How to safely develop a system whose spec you don't understand?