01 Technology company

Engineering the
systems beneath
modern software.

Difurrent is an independent technology company building software, infrastructure, AI systems, and experimental tools for the way the world is moving.

Build differently.
Understand deeply.

We think in systems grounded in first principles. We look beneath abstractions, question defaults, and build where existing solutions leave room for something better.

Difurrent exists to explore what technology becomes when engineering, research, and experimentation are allowed to overlap, without the pressure to ship before understanding.

Clarity over complexity. Depth over surface. Systems that last.

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Software

Products, tools, and software systems built around real problems, from interfaces to the layers that support them.

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Infrastructure

The systems underneath the applications people interact with: compute, networking, storage, and operational foundations.

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AI Systems

Engineering intelligent systems and the infrastructure required to train, serve, and operate them reliably.

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Experiments

Small investigations and prototypes that may become larger systems, or simply deepen our understanding of the stack.

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Systems tooling

Additional systems and infrastructure work in progress.

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AI infrastructure

Experiments around models, serving, and operational pipelines.

We are interested in what happens underneath the abstraction.

Linux processes CPU scheduling Memory Networking Distributed systems Infrastructure AI systems Observability

A company built
to explore.

Difurrent is an independent technology company building and exploring software, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering.

We operate with a bias toward understanding: reading the kernel interfaces, measuring what actually happens, and designing systems that remain understandable under load.

The company exists to build things worth understanding, and to share what we learn along the way.

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ProcWatch

A self-contained Linux process monitoring tool that reconstructs process information directly from the kernel's /proc filesystem.

ProcWatch explores what actually happens underneath familiar process monitoring tools.

Instead of invoking ps, top, or another external process utility, the program reads Linux's /proc interface directly.

The project covers process enumeration, metadata, CPU utilisation, memory usage, filtering, sorting, process hierarchy, file descriptors, and memory mappings.

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