Optimizing cloud capacity costs through linear programming https://lobste.rs/s/tw9dnk #distributed
https://modal.com/blog/resource-solver

"DISTRIBUTED PRESENCE". Abstract digital painting by A.G. (c) 2025. All Rights Reserved. #historiotheque #artoperations #concreterealism #seasonsoftheheart #springtimeoflife #springtimeofjoyfulbeing #distributed #presence

“Several days on, the cause of #Europe’s biggest #blackout in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, #RedEléctrica, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures.

What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear.

But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into #darkness in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of #EnergyUInfrastructure at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon #electricity instead of burning fossil fuels”

“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says #XavierDaval, chair of France’s #renewable energy trade association #SOLERSER. “But the emerging electric world is #distributed, #digital, and #adaptive. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a #paradigm that must be rethought.”

<https://archive.md/JOyS3> / <https://www.ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-49f6-9611-00c4ff992a43> (paywall)

Reading Zanzibar https://lobste.rs/s/b2itx4 #distributed
https://macwright.com/2025/05/02/reading-zanzibar

At ICSE @icseconf 2025? Check out Jiannan Wang’s D3 talk at 2:30 PM today Friday in Room 215 about how we find real-world bugs in production distributed systems code! https://bsky.app/profile/lin-tan.bsky.social/post/3ljvkq4fjzk23 #deepleanring #distributed #testing

Understanding Kafka KRaft: How Controllers and Brokers Talk in the Zookeeper-less World https://lobste.rs/s/a0568e #distributed
https://medium.com/@katyagorshkova/understanding-kafka-kraft-how-controllers-and-brokers-talk-in-the-zookeeper-less-world-a5e05a063f34

Happy International Workers’ Day!

We want to celebrate the hard work you’ve put into #distributed and #opendata #workflows , #software #tools , etc.

Make sure to get your registration for #distribits2025 in TODAY before registrations close: https://distribits.live.

Sharding a real Rails app https://lobste.rs/s/vyviku #databases #distributed
https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-a-real-rails-app

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 https://lobste.rs/s/dycg15 #databases #distributed #testing
https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4

Good regulator theorem https://lobste.rs/s/wtzly9 #distributed #philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_regulator_theorem

What if we embraced simulation-driven development? https://lobste.rs/s/uai76x #distributed #testing
https://pierrezemb.fr/posts/simulation-driven-development/

How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages https://lobste.rs/s/edtvb3 #databases #distributed
https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-indexes-trillions-of-messages

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch? https://lobste.rs/s/8s6cxz #distributed
https://www.morling.dev/blog/what-if-we-could-rebuild-kafka-from-scratch/

Thoughts on Bluesky Verification

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/thoughts-on-bluesky-verification/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://steveklabnik.com/writing/thoughts-on-bluesky-verification/

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

Decentralizing Schemes via @kngl https://lobste.rs/s/klqcce #distributed #web
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes

Thoughts on Bluesky Verification https://lobste.rs/s/1cbbeq #distributed #security #web
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/thoughts-on-bluesky-verification/

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky https://lobste.rs/s/awsduo #distributed #security #web
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

pgdog: Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding https://lobste.rs/s/qnvvne #databases #distributed
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog

#iden Quick-start verified: Creating and sourcing the #python and #rust virtual environments to compile and install, generating an identity, starting the pad manager, and how to import the library in a #jupyter notebook ready to write and read and poke at the test node.

https://github.com/stevenaleach/iden/blob/main/quickstart.md