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Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.

In between the Nixie tube era of the 50s and 60s and the advent of multi-digit vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) common in 80s and 90s consumer technology, there was a …read more

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Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.

While a punch card is perhaps the lowest-density storage medium available, it has some distinct advantages. As [Bitroller] points out in the write-up of his punch card project, if he …read more

Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts to those we wanted to impress with …read more

Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against broken bits. Working with a 0.1 mm …read more

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