The Cheesecake Factory’s menu is notoriously extensive, with over 250 items spread across 20 pages. The dishes range from sandwiches to pastas to, of course, cheesecakes. What sets the menu apart are the personal endorsements from unknown individuals attached to certain dishes, giving it a unique touch. The restaurant’s decor is opulent and extravagant, with […]
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In 1946, Louis Slotin, a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project, lost his life in a tragic accident. Ben Platts-Mills recounts the story in a specially illustrated feature for BBC Future. Using reconstructions, photographs, and his own mock-up of the apparatus, Platts-Mills created illustrations that capture the events leading up to the accident. He […]
Team Topologies is a model developed by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais that aims to help organize software development teams. It defines four types of teams and three modes of team interactions. The primary type of team is the stream-aligned team, which is responsible for software for a single business capability. These teams are full-stack […]
Commander Keen’s Adaptive Tile Refresh (ATR) is a crucial piece of technology that powered the first trilogy of the Commander Keen series. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) card, with its four planes of graphics data storage, was the key to running the game at its best. The EGA CRTC (screen controller) read four bytes in […]
The web content discusses two key features of a distributed system: clustering and quorum-based replication, and message routing strategies. The system is built on industry-standard best practices to ensure highly-available queues. It offers different routing strategies to aid in implementing complex message processing pipelines. One unique aspect is the multi-hop network topology that creates a […]
In this web content, the author, Andy Warfield, shares his insights and experiences working on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). He explains that S3 is a large-scale storage system with various components and teams, and it operates as a continuous, evolving system rather than traditional software. Warfield highlights the incredible scale of S3, with millions […]
In this blog post, the author discusses the implementation of Directfs as the default feature in runsc, the application kernel of gVisor. Directfs allows the secure direct access of the container filesystem by the Sentry, avoiding the need for round trips to the filesystem gofer. The gofer was originally added to provide secure remote filesystem […]
Battery life is a constant concern for users of wearable devices, and it can be a challenging issue for firmware engineers to address. Factors such as battery performance in different temperatures, voltage fluctuations, and battery degradation over time make it difficult to accurately predict battery life. However, there are strategies that can help optimize battery […]
Keyboard shortcuts are a handy tool for navigating through content quickly and efficiently. Using the TAB key, you can easily select the next letter, while the SHIFT + TAB combination selects the previous letter. Need to move to the next screen? Simply hit ENTER. To make slight adjustments to the left, use the ← key, […]
On average, Americans receive an annual radiation dose of about 0.62 rem, with half of this dose coming from natural background radiation. The main source of background exposure is radon in the air, along with smaller amounts from cosmic rays and the Earth itself. The other half of the dose comes from man-made sources, such […]