2026
53 posts from 2026
Implementing A Byzantine Fault Tolerant Atomic Broadcast Protocol: Zyzzyva Or Sbft
2026-06-01A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a byzantine fault tolerant atomic broadcast protocol: zyzzyva or sbft, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
A Deep Dive Into The Rc4 Stream Cipher: Weakness And Secure Alternatives
2026-05-27A comprehensive technical exploration of a deep dive into the rc4 stream cipher: weakness and secure alternatives, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Writing A Custom Profiling Tool For Python: Bytecode Instrumentation And Statistical Sampling
2026-05-27A comprehensive technical exploration of writing a custom profiling tool for python: bytecode instrumentation and statistical sampling, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Distributed Search Engine Index: Inverted Index, Compression, And Top K Retrieval
2026-05-23A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a distributed search engine index: inverted index, compression, and top k retrieval, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Smtp Protocol: Mail Transfer Agent With Queue And Retry Logic
2026-05-21A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the smtp protocol: mail transfer agent with queue and retry logic, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Decentralized Identity (did) System With Verifiable Credentials
2026-05-19A comprehensive technical exploration of building a decentralized identity (did) system with verifiable credentials, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
The Architecture Of A Real Time Operating System: Context Switching And Priority Inversion (mars Pathfinder)
2026-05-12A comprehensive technical exploration of the architecture of a real time operating system: context switching and priority inversion (mars pathfinder), covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Tcp Cubic Congestion Control Algorithm In A Userspace Tcp Stack
2026-05-05A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the tcp cubic congestion control algorithm in a userspace tcp stack, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Database Vacant Space Management: Bitmap, Free List, And B Tree Allocation
2026-04-29A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a database vacant space management: bitmap, free list, and b tree allocation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Writing A Tiny Shell From Scratch: Fork, Exec, Pipes, And Job Control
2026-04-29A comprehensive technical exploration of writing a tiny shell from scratch: fork, exec, pipes, and job control, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Spectral Graph Partitioning Algorithm: Fiedler Vector And K Means
2026-04-27A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the spectral graph partitioning algorithm: fiedler vector and k means, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
A Practical Guide To Implementing The Merkle Damgård Construction For Hash Functions
2026-04-19A comprehensive technical exploration of a practical guide to implementing the merkle damgård construction for hash functions, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Simple Service Mesh: Sidecar Proxy With Custom Iptables Rules And Mtls
2026-04-19A comprehensive technical exploration of building a simple service mesh: sidecar proxy with custom iptables rules and mtls, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Multithreaded Memory Allotter: Thread Caching Malloc (like Tcmalloc)
2026-04-18A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a multithreaded memory allotter: thread caching malloc (like tcmalloc), covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Software-Defined Networking: OpenFlow's Match-Action Tables, the P4 Language, and the Programmable Data Plane Vision
2026-04-15How SDN rewired the ossified internet architecture — from OpenFlow's match-action pipeline to P4's protocol-independent packet processing, and the ONOS/ODL control planes that orchestrate programmable forwarding at scale.
Implementing The Lempel Ziv Welch (lzw) Compression Algorithm With Dictionary Tuning
2026-04-13A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the lempel ziv welch (lzw) compression algorithm with dictionary tuning, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Distributed Monitoring System: Leaderless Gossip Protocol For Heartbeats
2026-04-12A comprehensive technical exploration of building a distributed monitoring system: leaderless gossip protocol for heartbeats, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
The Mathematics Of Bayesian Inference: Variational Autoencoder Implementation From Scratch
2026-04-11A comprehensive technical exploration of the mathematics of bayesian inference: variational autoencoder implementation from scratch, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing A Simple Compiler: From Lisp Like S Expressions To Llvm Ir With Ssa Form
2026-04-10A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a simple compiler: from lisp like s expressions to llvm ir with ssa form, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
BGP and Internet Routing: The Path-Vector Protocol, AS-Level Topology, Convergence, and the Prefix Hijacking Problem
2026-04-08How BGP glues together 70,000+ autonomous systems into the global internet — the path-vector algorithm, route-flap damping, the convergence time problem, prefix hijacking, and the RPKI/BGPSec defenses that try to fix it.
Designing A Protocol For Log Replication With Snapshotting: The Etcd Raft Implementation
2026-04-08A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a protocol for log replication with snapshotting: the etcd raft implementation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Custom Scheduler For Linux: Cfs Vs. O(1) Scheduler Details And Implementation
2026-04-06A comprehensive technical exploration of building a custom scheduler for linux: cfs vs. o(1) scheduler details and implementation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing A Distributed Counter With Linearizability: Lamport Clocks And Client Side Quorums
2026-04-05A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a distributed counter with linearizability: lamport clocks and client side quorums, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Writing A Tiny Basic Interpreter In Assembly: Lexing, Parsing, And Code Generation For X86_64
2026-04-04A comprehensive technical exploration of writing a tiny basic interpreter in assembly: lexing, parsing, and code generation for x86_64, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
The Practical Guide To Implementing A Quadtree For Spatial Indexing Of 2d Points
2026-03-20A comprehensive technical exploration of the practical guide to implementing a quadtree for spatial indexing of 2d points, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Scalable Session Store Using Crdts For Gdpr Compliant Data Retention
2026-03-19A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a scalable session store using crdts for gdpr compliant data retention, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Sha 256 Hashing Algorithm From Scratch (bit Level Operations)
2026-03-14A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the sha 256 hashing algorithm from scratch (bit level operations), covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
A Deep Dive Into The Rust Borrow Checker: Lifetime Inference And Nll Implementation
2026-03-13A comprehensive technical exploration of a deep dive into the rust borrow checker: lifetime inference and nll implementation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Distributed Namespace With Unikernel Based Microkernels
2026-03-11A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a distributed namespace with unikernel based microkernels, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing A Custom Wave Function Collapse Algorithm For Procedural Generation
2026-03-07A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a custom wave function collapse algorithm for procedural generation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
QUIC and HTTP/3: The UDP-Based Transport Revolution — 0-RTT, Connection Migration, and Stream Multiplexing Without Head-of-Line Blocking
2026-03-06How QUIC rewrites the transport layer rulebook by moving TCP's reliability into userspace on top of UDP — 0-RTT handshakes, connection migration across IP addresses, and solving head-of-line blocking once and for all.
Content Delivery Networks: DNS-Based Routing, Anycast, Edge Caching, and the Economics of CDN Peering
2026-03-04How Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly keep the web fast — DNS-based request routing, anycast IPs, consistent hashing at the edge, and the business of CDN peering that makes it all economically viable.
Building A Distributed Graph Processing Engine: Pregel Model And Superstep Implementation
2026-03-03A comprehensive technical exploration of building a distributed graph processing engine: pregel model and superstep implementation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Writing A Simple Container Runtime: Namespaces, Cgroups, And A Minimal Oci Runtime
2026-03-02A comprehensive technical exploration of writing a simple container runtime: namespaces, cgroups, and a minimal oci runtime, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
The Theory And Implementation Of The Pagerank Algorithm: Power Iteration And Dangling Nodes
2026-02-25A comprehensive technical exploration of the theory and implementation of the pagerank algorithm: power iteration and dangling nodes, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Knuth Morris Pratt Algorithm: Failure Function And String Matching
2026-02-23A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the knuth morris pratt algorithm: failure function and string matching, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Bft Storage System With Erasure Codes And Accountability
2026-02-22A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a bft storage system with erasure codes and accountability, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Dns Resolver From Scratch: Recursive Queries, Caching, And Dnssec
2026-02-19A comprehensive technical exploration of building a dns resolver from scratch: recursive queries, caching, and dnssec, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Edge Computing: The Fog/Mist/Cloud Continuum, K3s, and the Computation Offloading Decision
2026-02-16How the edge-cloud continuum reshapes where computation happens — from K3s and MicroK8s for edge-native Kubernetes to 5G MEC, the offloading decision problem, and why latency and bandwidth dictate architecture at the edge.
Implementing A Thread Pool With Work Stealing: The Cilk Scheduler In C++
2026-02-15A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a thread pool with work stealing: the cilk scheduler in c++, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Geo-Distributed Systems: WAN Latency, Multi-Leader Replication, and the Speed-of-Light Constraint
2026-02-13How the speed of light shapes the architecture of global-scale systems — from multi-leader and leaderless replication to CRDTs, Spanner, CockroachDB, and the fundamental tension between consistency and latency.
A Practical Introduction To Federated Learning: Aggregation, Differential Privacy, And Secure Aggregation
2026-01-30A comprehensive technical exploration of a practical introduction to federated learning: aggregation, differential privacy, and secure aggregation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Custom Compression Codec: Lz77, Huffman Coding, And Deflate From Scratch
2026-01-29A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a custom compression codec: lz77, huffman coding, and deflate from scratch, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Simple State Machine Replication System With Raft And A Key Value Store
2026-01-26A comprehensive technical exploration of building a simple state machine replication system with raft and a key value store, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing The Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms: Kruskal With Union Find And Prim With Fibonacci Heap
2026-01-26A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing the minimum spanning tree algorithms: kruskal with union find and prim with fibonacci heap, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
The Architecture Of A Modern Sqlite: Pager, B Tree, And Virtual Machine Internals
2026-01-24A comprehensive technical exploration of the architecture of a modern sqlite: pager, b tree, and virtual machine internals, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing A Distributed Snapshot Algorithm: Chandy Lamport State Recording
2026-01-22A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a distributed snapshot algorithm: chandy lamport state recording, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Writing A Tiny X86 Emulator In C: Instruction Decoding, Segmentation, And Paging
2026-01-21A comprehensive technical exploration of writing a tiny x86 emulator in c: instruction decoding, segmentation, and paging, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Designing A Continuous Integration Pipeline With Distributed Build Agents And Caching
2026-01-20A comprehensive technical exploration of designing a continuous integration pipeline with distributed build agents and caching, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
P2P Networks: BitTorrent's Incentives, IPFS's Merkle DAGs, and the Decentralized Web Vision
2026-01-18From tit-for-tat choking algorithms to content-addressed Merkle DAGs — how BitTorrent and IPFS engineered the two most successful decentralized protocols in internet history.
The Practical Guide To Implementing A Consensus Algorithm For Byzantine Faults: Pbft
2026-01-15A comprehensive technical exploration of the practical guide to implementing a consensus algorithm for byzantine faults: pbft, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Implementing A Simple Neural Network Accelerator In Fpga: Matrix Multiply Unit And Activation
2026-01-09A comprehensive technical exploration of implementing a simple neural network accelerator in fpga: matrix multiply unit and activation, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.
Building A Custom Profiling Tool With Linux Perf Events And Ebpf
2026-01-05A comprehensive technical exploration of building a custom profiling tool with linux perf events and ebpf, covering key concepts, practical implementations, and real-world applications.