







A lot of ink is spent on the "monoliths vs. microservices" debate, but the real issue behind this debate is about whether distributed system …
Deploying Microservices: Spring Cloud vs. Kubernetes
Take a look at how deploying microservices compares depending on whether you use Sping Cloud and Kubernetes, and how each differs depending on its use.
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.

The ecosystem is moving
Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize....

microsandbox - Every agent deserves its own machine
Run lightweight microVMs locally. Programmable networking, custom filesystems, secrets that never leak.
How Streamplace Works: No Microservices - How Streamplace Works
Open-source is meaningless unless people can, y'know, actually run your software
Platformonomics - Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who?
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…

Be Prepared: We're Entering A Post-Device Era - Fast Company
The new frontier in personal computing may be cloud services that run on less powerful devices.

Minimum viable decentralization – John Backus – Medium
If you want people to use your product, decentralize the bare minimum. Lessons from Freenet, I2P, Darknet markets, and Reddit.

Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
Distributed Systems lecture series
Causal Islands 2023
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers - Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018
maegul (@maegul@hachyderm.io)
I think the #Ghost and #Wordpress federations pose interesting questions about what #fediverse platforms can and should be. Do we actually want blogs and feeds of blogs folded into a mastodon/microblog social feed? Do we want to read and comment on blogs on mastodon? Do we want all the diversity of the fediverse fed into a single platform's UI and hope that it works well? Are we worried that some choices by our platform or instance admin might hinder this process? I'm rather skeptical. 1/
I often get emails asking for ideas (or materials) to learn about distributed systems. I always recommend getting started with Gossip Glomers. Only six challenges, some easy and some difficult, but an absolute top tier fun and learning experience fly.io/dist-sys
in my head i think of microcosm services as targeting audible-frequency request rates. right now constellation is receiving 150 req/sec, which is within fundamental human vocal range and sounds like this: szynalski.com/tone#150,squ,v0.5
Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency
szynalski.com