Celebrating 30 years of Europe’s first root name server. “Located in Sweden, nic.nordu.net was, in 1991, the first root name server outside of the United States. The root name server was the 9th to be added to the root zone”.
Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services, a worrying trend.
Gently Down the Stream, a gentle introduction to Apache Kafka. Nicely done.
The origins of the term “blue-green deployment”.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow (1996), read by Barlow (2013).
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore