The Beauty of the Internet Protocol

I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering.Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Performance iss ...  Show more

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests. 

Episode 44: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, the topic is URL structure, and Justin and Joel break down the elements that make up a URL and some common tips and tricks surrounding them which allow for all sorts of bypasses. We also round out the episode ...  Show more

Welcome Bankless Nation, to the Summer of Protocols!|

Summer of Protocols is an ongoing research and evangelism effort that aims to catalyze broad interest in the study of protocols as a first-class concept for thinking about the world.

To explain a little more a ...

Tim Beiko, who runs the core protocol meetings for Ethereum, teams up with writer and consultant Venkatesh Rao to discuss their "Summer of Protocols" research program. This initiative brought together 33 researchers with a wide range of expertise to investigate protocols acros ...

Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what's up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), posit ...  Show more