We’ve recently seen Cloudflare decide to terminate service for “The Daily Stormer”, because the stormer is seen as a Neo-Nazi site. There is an ongoing internet debate which tries to untangle if this is a valid or invalid decision. Both are right. Let me explain:

Suppose you are playing Dungeons & Dragons (or Bunkers & Badasses). Suppose you throw 20 20-sided dice. What are the chances of getting a least a single dice with a 1?

Well, the easier way to formulate that question is to ask the dual question: “what is…

Edit: some word choices have been altered slightly in order to make some parts more clear.

This is a short blurb about a specific optimization present in Erlang 20.0 which is scheduled for release in June 2017. The README file mentions the…

Suppose you have a bounded queue of size 10. In a normal setting, you system may load this queue with up to 5 elements. Under load, the queue might increase to say 7 or 8 elements, but you are not going to reach the bound of the queue. Typically the queue is empty, some elements…

In the recent years, I have adopted a method for system design, which I think yields good results. For a lack of better word, I overloaded “stack” yet again, and use it as a metaphor for this design.