Architecture

Kafka Partitions and Consumer Groups: How to Prevent Head-of-Line Blocking

Apache Kafka is celebrated for its incredible horizontal throughput, capable of streaming millions of messages per second. Yet, many engineering tea…

Treat Tool Intent as a Deduped Outbox Before Planner Retries Double-Commit

Last Tuesday I sat with a sequence dump that looked successful until I counted the tickets twice. The planner had asked for one incident record, and…

Treat Client Timeout as an In-Doubt Lease Before You Replay Shared Tool Calls

Last Tuesday I sat with a planner log that looked almost boring until I lined up two clocks. The client aborted a tool call at thirty seconds, then…

Squalk: an old-school forum engine built on Nostr (NIP-29 groups, NIP-7D threads)

I miss classic forums: slow, asynchronous threads that stay readable and searchable for years, instead of knowledge dissolving into chat scrollback.…

The pattern language of software architecture

Karpenter's consolidation behaviour is counter-intuitive

Wetask Is Opening Its Task Runtime to External Workers

Wetask's next update brings durable, fenced external workers, atomic batch settlement, and first-party Go, TypeScript, and Python clients. Wetask st…

Edge Computing Middleware: Securing and Scaling Distributed Architectures

Originally published on tamiz.pro . The proliferation of IoT devices, 5G networks, and real-time data processing demands has catalyzed a significant…

Building Resilient Real-Time Systems: A Deep Dive into WebSockets and Redis

Originally published on tamiz.pro . Real-time systems are no longer a luxury but a fundamental expectation in modern web applications, from collabor…

Distributed AI in Action: Deploying and Optimizing Mesh LLM on iroh for Scalable Machine Learning

Originally published on tamiz.pro . The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has pushed the boundaries of what's possible in AI, yet their…

The Limits of Generalized Sync: ATaxonomy of Architectures, Trade‑offs, and Decision Factors

Ursula: thread-per-core, multi-Raft Rust runtime for HTTP event streams

Hi folks, I just open-sourced Ursula, a self-hosted, multi-node server for HTTP event streams built on ElectricSQL's Durable Streams Protocol. Archi…