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Island | The enterprise platform for AI, network, and data protection
Island is the ideal environment for enterprise work, where modern business requirements like enterprise AI, secure access, and data protection are built into the workplace itself — so organizations can finally stop choosing between enabling their workforce and protecting their data.
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A practical guide to frontend System Design
Sam, a passionate frontend developer, had been in the job market for what felt like...

What to build first: the house or the front door?
Join the conversation to stay on top of trends and opportunities in the platform engineering community.

Frontend System Design: The Complete Guide 2026
Learn how to approach frontend System Design interviews with real-world architecture patterns, scalability strategies, and practical examples used by top tech companies.

frontend-design - Skill
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people.

Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering
Palantir is en vogue right now. So of course, folks are cargo-culting elements of its culture, especially “Forward Deployed Engineering”. Lots of companies are trying to imitate this, and some other founders have even reached out to me for advice on whether they, too, should do this model for their startup.
Front-end Inspiration, Resources, and Design References | Frontpedia
Curated frontend inspiration, design references, UI patterns, and development resources for modern web teams.
Architectural mismatch: why reuse is so hard
Why isn't there more progress toward building systems from existing parts? One answer is that the assumptions of the parts about their intended environment are implicit and either don't match the actual environment or conflict with those of other parts. The authors explore these problems in the context of their own experience with a compositional approach.<>
About Causal Islands
Causal Islands is about connecting people across industries, disciplines, and communities to share, design, and learn about the future of computing together.

Open Systems Foundation
Building open infrastructure for a thriving planet.
Platform engineering: start from the backend!, Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 10:00 AM | Meetup
Every Internal Developer Platform (IDP) needs a proper backend, and it’s vital to start by designing and building that before you worry about anything else. Join this sessi

Web Components Are Not the Future
A few years ago I wrote an article suggesting that Web Components might not be the most beneficial...

HUD — Build RL environments
The platform for building RL environments. Train specialized agents, evaluate models, and ship RL datasets backed by HUD infrastructure.

Building @skysquare.app, I’ve thought a lot about what the future of the @atproto.com ecosystem might look like, and I’m increasingly excited by the possibilities. Skysquare is a useful demonstration of something that feels much bigger than the application itself—the portability of the ATProto post.