I must admit I've taken on the booklet and it ate me alive, because I wanted to "fix" every single little thing with the financial system.

Funny thing is that it is designed to never be fixed.

So I had to restart my booklets from a purely ontological perspective.

it is now a 4 booklet series.

Book 1 is about the usefulness of the tally and how important it is to keep the abstraction grounded in usefulness.

Book 2 lays out a fully independent individual who would exist within the framework of my financial system.

Book 3 is about combining the honorable tally with the harmonic occupation.
Book 3 is the nuts and bolts of the financial system.

Book 4 is a diagnostics tool and self reporting / Open Ledger to keep the organizations events in order and discover able such that one can discern the events that lead to any outcome.

With all this in mind I Have now an organized and purposeful expression to present to you all.

The main reality is that the Debt economy is a true "growth" upon the society and it will either overcome us or it will become irrelevant due to newer and more robust systems overtaking it.

I present to you:

The FIRST ERA.

Economy of Reality and Abstraction.

More posts soon!

#economy #love #TheFirstEra #OntologicalEconomics #SystemDesign #FutureOfMoney #EconomicReform #SystemsThinking #art #future #hope

I bid you a fond day Monarch

-OwowA AvataraQ

Ah yes, the ancient art of replacing a sophisticated sharded job queue with a single, elegant JSON file on object storage. Because why not put all your distributed eggs 🥚 into one wobbly basket 🧺? Don't worry, though—query prices are down by 94%, so you'll save a fortune as you wait for it to fail! 😂
https://turbopuffer.com/blog/object-storage-queue #shardedJobQueue #JSONStorage #distributedSystems #costSavings #techHumor #systemDesign #HackerNews #ngated
How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage

How to build a single global queue for distributed systems on object storage: Start with a single file on object storage, then add write batching, a stateless broker, and high-availability.

The demo asks: what can this AI agent do? The Architect asks: what can it break?

Here is the Blast Radius Assessment every engineer is skipping before issuing an API key. 👇

https://heyvaldemar.com/ai-agent-blast-radius-assessment/

#AI #DevOps #SRE #SystemDesign

Building a Nix cache server and faced a classic system design dilemma: chunk compressed data (fast/simple) or decompress first (slow/complex)? 🤔

I tested 60k+ NAR files to find out.

❌ Compressed: 6.4% dedup hit rate
✅ Uncompressed: 47.8% dedup hit rate

Decompression wins, saving 18% in total storage.

🧵 https://wael.nasreddine.com/nixos/cdc-why-decompression-worth-co

(P.S. To handle the pipeline throughput, I also built the fastest FastCDC implementation in Go: https://github.com/kalbasit/fastcdc) #golang #nixos #systemdesign #socialmedia

CDC: Why Decompression is Worth the Complexity - Wael's Digital Garden

A network partition is a communication break between nodes in a distributed system. Partition tolerance is necessary for any distributed deployment because network failures are unavoidable in practice.

#NetworkPartition #DistributedSystems #SystemDesign

Implementing transparency in distributed systems has real costs. Hiding failures, latency, and replication requires middleware overhead. Designers select only the transparency forms their application needs, balancing completeness against performance constraints.

#SystemDesign #DistributedSystems

As distributed systems scale, load balancers distribute requests across nodes to prevent bottlenecks. Stateless application design allows any node to serve any request, enabling the system to add or remove nodes dynamically as demand changes.

#Scalability #SystemDesign

If you can't speak ROI, Time-to-Deployment, and TCO, you can't justify your salary against a no-code alternative.

The business managers are already bypassing you.

Listen to the briefing and align your architecture with reality.

https://youtube.com/shorts/2zX73xH69N8

#TechCareers #SystemDesign #FieldCTO

Why we favor the Master Manifest approach: Centralizing logic in a single JSON schema allows for instantaneous UI/UX shifts without touching core code. It’s the difference between moving a mountain and moving a mirror.

​#WebArchitecture #SystemDesign #CleanCode #SovereignTech

Logical Fallacies in Software Development

Logical fallacies like sunk cost, false dichotomy, and confirmation bias derail software projects. Learn to recognize and avoid faulty reasoning traps.

Jeff Bailey