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Design event-driven systems with message queues
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Powering AI is an architecture problem
MIT Technology Review 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Powering AI is an architecture problem
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
Engineering at Meta 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store. As a bonus, it also enables admiss
Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers
IEEE Spectrum 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers
This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional man
Reddit r/MachineLearning 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
CICD / KAFKA / KUBERNETES / Interview questions (MLE) [R]
What questions should i prepare for during a technical interview for a live streaming deployments? (asking for a friend) submitted by /u/trouble_sleeping_ [link
Understanding Phase Noise and Its Impact on RF System Performance
IEEE Spectrum 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Understanding Phase Noise and Its Impact on RF System Performance
A practical introduction to phase noise concepts, explaining how oscillator instability affects RF systems and how phase noise is measured, analyzed, and report
ArXiv cs.AI 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
OpenURMA: A Clean-Room Open Implementation of the Unified Bus Protocol
arXiv:2605.28717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern datacenter RDMA is bottlenecked at the network interface, not the wire. A NIC running RoCE or InfiniBand
ArXiv cs.AI 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
A Deep Dive into Axiomatic Design -- Part I: Problem Formulation
arXiv:2605.25735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Problem formulation translating customer needs and constraints into a minimum set of independent first-level fun
ArXiv cs.AI 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Designing Cellular Manufacturing System in Presence of Alternative Process Plans
arXiv:2411.15361v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the design of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS), numerous technological and managerial decisions must
ArXiv cs.AI 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Detecting Privilege Escalation in Polyglot Microservices via Agentic Program Analysis
arXiv:2605.15569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Microservices are widely adopted in modern cloud systems due to their scalability and fault tolerance. However
Microsoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in large-scale networked systems
Microsoft Research 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Microsoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in large-scale networked systems
Microsoft researchers share advances in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, spanning datacenters, networking, and the growing intersection w
The case for fixing everything
MIT Technology Review 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehe