A bedrock platform is a hardware platform or a universal virtual machine that can be expected to remain compatible with any software that has ever been written for it. Bedrock platforms can be used to prevent software rot.
IBM PC
The ubiquity of IBM PC compatibles as well as the lack of a single corporation that controls the platform makes it a good candidate for a bedrock platform.
Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering
As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.
Closed platform
A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and/or media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, wherein consumers generally have unrestricted access to applications and content.
container/docs/technical-overview.md at main · apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container
Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System
Xous is a message-passing microkernel implemented in pure Rust, targeting secure embedded applications. This talk covers three novel aspe...
The Rust Platform · Aaron Turon
A programming language is much more than its compiler and standard library. It’s a community. Tools. Documentation. An ecosystem. All of these elements affect how a language feels, its productivity, and its applicability.
PlatformCon: How Spotify Manages Infrastructure with GitOps
At PlatformCon this week, Spotify engineer Tim Hansen described how the music service relied on GitOps principles to automate infrastructure provisioning.
apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
Rust - The WebAssembly Component Model
Rust has first-class support for WebAssembly core and WebAssembly components via the available targets in the toolchain:
Edge.js: Running Node apps inside a WebAssembly Sandbox · Blog · Wasmer
Today we are incredibly excited to open source [Edge.js](https://edgejs.org/), a JavaScript runtime specifically designed to safely run Node.js workload...
How eBPF is shaping the future of Linux and platform engineering
When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based on kernel primitives in the Linux operating system. Docker used these primitives, namely cgroups and namespaces, as building blocks to create a lightweight, easy-to-use software packaging format. Linux containers had been used by Google and others for many years, but Docker made them easily accessible to mainstream developers.
WebAssembly and its platform targets
When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit important as it dictates whether your WebAssembly code will (not) work with another bit as it all
Project Robius
Community for Multi-platform Application Development in Rust - Project Robius
The foundation of personal computing is the filesystem. The foundation of the internet is a networked filesystem. The foundation of a new social web will likely be a social filesystem. (It remains an ope question if atproto is such a foundation)
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It seems a fork lies ahead, is atproto a portable database for a bunch of apps or a new type of post-app, social filesystem?
Ditch Platforms
Guides, stories, and reasons to leave platforms in favor of protocols
The Music Industry is Broken
Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
How to ACTUALLY Quit Spotify.
Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
EFF is Leaving X
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
