1/8 - Great video from @davefarley77. I’ve had about half the length of his career, and maybe a fraction of his experience (he’s actually the person who taught many of the folks I tend to learn from). But it’s funny how much our thinking aligns. I share basically all of his "regrets".

https://youtu.be/NaTEZ6Hq_6o

#TechRegrets #SoftwareEngineering #Agile #DistributedSystems #InternetHistory #Decentralisation #BigTech #GenAI #DigitalEthics #TechCulture

Update: Ditributed Transaction Patterns

A framework for understanding and implementing distributed transaction patterns through a phase-based spectrum approach.

NEW: Now with formal proofs, and a pretty chart.
https://github.com/ha1tch/dxp/tree/main/doc

#distributedsystems #dxp #compsci #microservices #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Die Race Conditions im Wissensmanagement findet man nicht nur bei KI-Nutzern.

"Bei der Analyse ist herausgekommen, dass mehr als jede dritte Seite problematisch sein soll. Mindestens 20 Prozent der Einträge enthielten demnach Informationen, "die nicht mehr aktuell sind". Nur bei der Hälfte davon steche dies Nutzern sofort ins Auge."

https://www.heise.de/news/Wikipedia-wegen-vieler-Fehler-und-veralteter-Informationen-in-der-Kritik-10476136.html

#aigen #noAI #knowledge #wikipedia #hegel #captheorem #distributedSystems #babylonischeSprachverwirrung #computationalThinking #desinformation #hermeneutik #deutungshoheit #hegemon

🚨 Multi-Master PostgreSQL gotchas: INSERT/INSERT conflicts can silently lose data, UPDATE/UPDATE overwrites entire tuples (not just changed columns), and 3-node clusters risk permanent divergence.

New blog post from Shaun Thomas dives deep into CRDTs (Conflict Resistant Data Types 😉), sequence safety, and conflict resolution strategies 👇

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/living-on-the-edge

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #DistributedSystems #DatabaseEngineering #OpenSource #Databases #Data

🔒 #VictoriaMetrics now offers #FIPS 140-3 compatible builds for its Enterprise components, leveraging the #BoringCrypto module.
This enables organizations in regulated sectors, such as the 🏛️ federal government, 💰 finance, and 🏥 healthcare, to meet stringent cryptographic requirements using VictoriaMetrics. Find more information in this article 👇
https://hubs.li/Q03t_-yG0

#Observability #Logs #OpenSource #DevOps #DistributedSystems #VictoriaMetrics #security

Discover how #CloudPrem solutions blend cloud efficiency with on-premise control - addressing data sovereignty, compliance, cost optimization, and customer security.

Dive into the #InfoQ article by Satyam Dhar to learn more: https://bit.ly/3FYMlrd

☁️ #CloudComputing #HybridCloud #DataSovereignty #SaaS #CloudEfficiency #Microservices #Observability #DistributedSystems

LinkedIn's Northguard: Scalability triumph or vendor lock-in peril? The future of distributed systems hinges on balancing performance gains with ecosystem freedom. #DistributedSystems #CloudNative #TechDebates

https://saysomething.hashnode.dev/kafka-replacement-dilemma-northguard-vendor-lock-in-and-ecosystem-fragmentation

Understanding Eventsourcing: Planning and Implementing scalable Systems with Eventmodeling and Eventsourcing https://leanpub.com/eventmodeling-and-eventsourcing by Martin Dilger is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #SoftwareEngineering #EventDrivenArchitecture #SoftwareArchitecture #Software #DistributedSystems #books #ebooks

The first book to combine Eventmodeling & Eventsourcing to plan software systems of any size and complexity.

Find it on Leanpub!