Agost's Blog

Paxos is a fault-tolerant distributed consensus algorithm invented by Leslie Lamport. A fault-tolerant distributed consensus algorithms lets…

Apple claims that iCloud Keychain items are end-to-end encrypted, but recoverable with an Apple ID and device passcode even if all devices…

I’ve started putting together a dataset on KN95 mask prices after seeing masks from AliExpress being sold at a tenfold markup on European…

Serverless Pioneers Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered serverless computing and continues to innovate at the highest velocity in the space…

What Is Serverless A serverless app is a collection of managed services and some code that ties them all together. The value proposition of…

I’ve released a new Python library for the DynamoDB single table pattern called Dokklib-DB. It’s built on top of Boto3 and should feel…

A forkable company’s code is not only open source, but also makes it easy to replicate its services. This post explains how that works.

Independent open source developers need a business model. I believe a subscription model for documentation sites backed by a paywall is the best solution.

Dokknet is a paywall-as-a-service for open source documentation sites. This post explains the rational and technical details of the its paywall design.

A look at how a small, privacy-conscious group can transform personal payments through an asymmetric mechanism.

This post maps the challenges of launching a novel payment solution in detail and looks at how the Litecoin, Monero, Ripple, Stellar and Z-cash projects handled them compared to Bitcoin.

An introduction to Wardley mapping through a simplified example of Bitcoin payments.