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How Meta turned the Linux Kernel into a planet-scale Load Balancer. Part I
A deep architectural narrative on XDP, eBPF, stateless routing, and why hyperscale traffic outgrew proxies.
Feb 7 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Can Time Be Computed? Part II
Why causality might be the real computational primitive
Jan 24 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Can Time Be Computed? Part I
Why causality might be the real computational primitive
Jan 21 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
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The Shape of Learning: A Deep Dive into PyTorch Fundamentals
Jul 12, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Can Quantum Physics Compute Everything?
Jan 2 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Diving into Amazon S3 for Data Engineers
Sep 2, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini
Thinking in Systems
Nov 7, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Why LLMs Imitate Thinking but Cannot Think
Sep 19, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
The Future of Computer Science
Dec 5, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti

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Beyond the Semantic Layer
How analytics systems fail, why the semantic layer was inevitable, and why it is not enough
Jan 12 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
If the Universe Computes, What Can It Not Compute?
Gödel, Turing, Quantum Chaos, and the Ultimate Algorithmic Limits of Reality
Jan 8 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
Can Quantum Physics Compute Everything?
Why Quantum Mechanics might be the ultimate algorithmic boundary
Jan 2 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
How Apache Superset Transformed Our Analytics into a Shared Language
Building Trust, Clarity, and Consistency in Data-Driven Decision Making Through Superset’s Transparent, Collaborative Approach
Dec 23, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
The Future of Computer Science
An extended meditation on the discipline we are building, the one we are becoming, and the one we have yet to imagine
Dec 5, 2025 • Lorenzo Bradanini and Lorenzo Tettamanti
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