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Leveraging Apache Flink Dashboard for Real-Time Data Processing in AWS Apache Flink Managed Service

Aggregated on: 2024-11-06 15:21:43

The Apache Flink Managed Service in AWS, offered through Amazon Kinesis data analytics for Apache Flink, allows developers to run Flink-based stream processing applications without the complexities of managing the underlying infrastructure. This fully managed service simplifies the deployment, scaling, and operation of real-time data processing pipelines, enabling users to concentrate on building applications rather than handling cluster setup and maintenance. With seamless integration into AWS services such as Kinesis and S3, it provides automatic scaling, monitoring, and fault tolerance, making it ideal for real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and large-scale data processing in the cloud. This guide talks about how to use the Apache Flink dashboard for monitoring and managing real-time data processing applications within AWS-managed services, ensuring efficient and reliable stream processing.

Using SingleStore and WebAssembly for Sentiment Analysis of Stack Overflow Comments

Aggregated on: 2024-11-06 14:21:43

In this article, we'll see how to use SingleStore and WebAssembly to perform sentiment analysis of Stack Overflow comments. We'll use some existing WebAssembly code that has already been prepared and hosted in a cloud environment. The notebook file used in this article is available on GitHub.

Real-Time Data Streaming on Cloud Platforms: Leveraging Cloud Features for Real-Time Insights

Aggregated on: 2024-11-06 13:21:43

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. Businesses today rely significantly on data to drive customer engagement, make well-informed decisions, and optimize operations in the fast-paced digital world. For this reason, real-time data and analytics are becoming increasingly more necessary as the volume of data continues to grow. Real-time data enables businesses to respond instantly to changing market conditions, providing a competitive edge in various industries. Because of their robust infrastructure, scalability, and flexibility, cloud data platforms have become the best option for managing and analyzing real-time data streams.

Jakarta WebSocket Essentials: A Guide to Full-Duplex Communication in Java

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 23:21:43

Have you ever wondered what happens when you send a message to friends or family over the Internet? It’s not just magic — there’s a fascinating technology at work behind the scenes called WebSocket. This powerful protocol enables real-time communication, allowing messages to flow seamlessly between users. Join us as we dive deeper into the world of WebSocket! We’ll explore how this technology operates and even create a simple application together to see it in action. Get ready to unlock the potential of real-time communication!

Cost Optimization Strategies for Managing Large-Scale Open-Source Databases

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 22:21:43

In today’s world where data drives everything, managing large-scale databases and their security is both a necessity and a challenge. A few factors that organizations consider when choosing databases are primary are its cost, flexibility, and support from hosting providers. An open-source database is your best bet for many reasons. As organizations are looking for more and more open-source products to run their enterprise business, this gives them greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Achieving lower costs while maintaining high-performance databases is critical. Most organizations are now adopting open-source databases for some projects. There are multiple factors that one should consider when picking an open-source database. Below are some options that can be adapted to achieve effective management of large-scale open-source databases while keeping the costs in control.

Storybook: A Developer’s Secret Weapon

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 21:21:43

In my experience, Storybook has been a game-changer as a front-end developer who has mainly relied on Jest, Mocha, and Chai to get the basic testing working for the components I've built — learning about Storybook has been an eye-opener. It's one of those tools that once you've used you wonder how you managed without it. The ability to visualize components in isolation has streamlined our development process, making collaboration between devs and designers seamless. That said, I’ve seen some developers shy away from Storybook, citing the extra setup and maintenance as a downside. But here’s why I disagree: once you get past the initial integration, the time saved outweighs the setup cost in the long run. In this article, I would like to shed some light on the integration process and showcase some features that are most beneficial when using Storybook.

Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) With Milvus

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 20:21:43

It's no secret that traditional large language models (LLMs) often hallucinate — generate incorrect or nonsensical information — when asked knowledge-intensive questions requiring up-to-date information, business, or domain knowledge. This limitation is primarily because most LLMs are trained on publicly available information, not your organization's internal knowledge base or proprietary custom data. This is where retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a model introduced by Meta AI researchers, comes in. RAG addresses an LLM's limitation of over-relying on pre-trained data for output generation by combining parametric memory with non-parametric memory through vector-based information retrieval techniques. Depending on the scale, this vector-based information retrieval technique often works with vector databases to enable fast, personalized, and accurate similarity searches. In this guide, you'll learn how to build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with Milvus.

Harnessing GenAI for Enhanced Agility and Efficiency During Planning Phase

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 19:21:43

Project planning is one of the first steps involved in any form of project management. In this Agile era, whatever flavor of Agile it may be, programs and projects undergo a cadence for planning on the set-up of intentions for the next phase of delivering value to customers. In this generation of GenAI, there is an opportunity to catalyze productivity not just by reducing routine tasks through manual intervention, but also by providing key insights from analyzing the performance of previous delivery cycles and real-time progress tracking.

Licenses With Daily Time Fencing

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 18:21:43

Despite useful features offered by software, sometimes software pricing and packaging repel consumers and demotivate them to even take the first step of evaluation. Rarely, we have seen software/hardware used for the full 24 hours of a day but still, as a consumer, I am paying for the 24 hours of the day. At the same time, as a cloud software vendor, I know my customer is not using cloud applications for 24 hours but still, I am paying the infrastructure provider for 24 hours. On the 23rd of July, 2024, we brainstormed about the problem and identified a solution. License with daily time fencing can help consumers by offering them a cheaper license and can also help ISV in infrastructure demand forecasting and implementing eco-design.

How to Read JSON Files in Java Using the Google Gson Library

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 17:21:43

JSON files are commonly used these days for sending data to applications. Be it a web application, an API, or a mobile application, JSON is used by almost every team as it is lightweight and self-describing. Due to its high popularity and wide usage, it is important to understand and know what JSON is, its features, its different data types, file formats, etc. In this blog, we will be learning about JSON, its features, data types, and file formats. We will then continue to learn to read JSON files in Java using the Google Gson library.

Two-Pass Huffman in Blocks of 2 Symbols: Golang Implementation

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 16:21:43

Data compression is perhaps the most important feature of modern computation, enabling efficient storage and transmission of information. One of the most famous compression algorithms is Huffman coding. In this post, we are going to introduce an advanced version: a block-based, 2-symbol, two-pass Huffman algorithm in Golang. It can bring further enhancements regarding the increase of compression efficiency in specific types of data, as it will take into consideration pairs of symbols instead of individual ones. Algorithm Overview The two-pass Huffman algorithm in blocks of 2 symbols is an extension of the classic Huffman coding. It processes input data in pairs of bytes, potentially offering better compression ratios for certain types of data. Let’s break down the encoding process step by step:

Effective Methods to Diagnose and Troubleshoot CPU Spikes in Java Applications

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 15:21:43

CPU spikes are one of the most common performance challenges faced by Java applications. While traditional APM (Application Performance Management) tools provide high-level insights into overall CPU usage, they often fall short of identifying the root cause of the spike. APM tools usually can’t pinpoint the exact code paths causing the issue. This is where non-intrusive, thread-level analysis proves to be much more effective. In this post, I’ll share a few practical methods to help you diagnose and resolve CPU spikes without making changes in your production environment. Intrusive vs Non-Intrusive Approach: What Is the Difference? Intrusive Approach Intrusive approaches involve making changes to the application’s code or configuration, such as enabling detailed profiling, adding extra logging, or attaching performance monitoring agents. These methods can provide in-depth data, but they come with the risk of affecting the application’s performance and may not be suitable for production environments due to the added overhead.

Organizing Logging Between the Three IBM App Connect Form Factors

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 14:21:43

The App Connect product enables you to integrate anything to anything. Its core routing and transformation engine enables you to inspect and transform messages from a wide variety of industry-standard and custom message models. But with great power can come complexity! Being generic and having the ability to run your integration flows on different form factors can give you a lot of options. This article aims to help you coordinate your logging strategy across these different form factors and to clarify where and how you can get access to the more common form of logging across all the form factors. Form Factors The App Connect runtime runs on 3 distinct form factors, all capable of running BAR files containing Integration Flows. These BARs can be moved between each form factor. You can create a BAR file using the ACE Toolkit or the App Connect Designer UI.

Optimizing Your Data Pipeline: Choosing the Right Approach for Efficient Data Handling and Transformation Through ETL and ELT

Aggregated on: 2024-11-05 13:21:43

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. As businesses collect more data than ever before, the ability to manage, integrate, and access this data efficiently has become crucial. Two major approaches dominate this space: extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT). Both serve the same core purpose of moving data from various sources into a central repository for analysis, but they do so in different ways. Understanding the distinctions, similarities, and appropriate use cases is key to perfecting your data integration and accessibility practice.

Understanding Distributed System Performance… From the Grocery Store

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 23:06:43

I visited a small local grocery store which happens to be in a touristy part of my neighborhood. If you’ve ever traveled abroad, then you’ve probably visited a store like that to stock up on bottled water without purchasing the overpriced hotel equivalent. This was one of these stores. To my misfortune, my visit happened to coincide with a group of tourists arriving all at once to buy beverages and warm up (it’s winter!).

How to Protect Yourself From the Inevitable GenAI Crash

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 22:06:43

I had the dubious pleasure of living through the dot.com bubble, from the nascent early web in 1995 through the crash in 2000. It’s no wonder, therefore, that today’s generative AI (GenAI) bubble is giving me a serious case of déjà vu. Been there, done that, got the t-shirts to prove it. Now I’m older and wiser. So listen up, young ‘uns, and let me pass along some hard-won wisdom from the last millennium.

The Modern Era of Data Orchestration: From Data Fragmentation to Collaboration

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 21:06:43

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. Data engineering and software engineering have long been at odds, each with their own unique tools and best practices. A key differentiator has been the need for dedicated orchestration when building data products. In this article, we'll explore the role data orchestrators play and how recent trends in the industry may be bringing these two disciplines closer together than ever before.

Supporting Multiple Redis Databases With Infinispan Cache Aliases Enhancement

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 20:06:42

In Infinispan 15, we provided a large set of commands to make it possible to replace your Redis Server with Infinispan without changing your code. In this tutorial, you will learn how Infinispan cache aliases will help you replace your Redis Server with Infinispan for multiple Redis databases. Key takeaways: What are cache aliases and how to create caches with aliases or update existing ones Learn how Infinispan and Redis differ in data organization Support multiple databases in Infinispan with cache aliases when using the RESP protocol Supporting multiple Redis databases has been available since Infinispan 15.0 (the latest stable release at the time of this writing). However, Hot Rod, CLI, and Infinispan Console support is Tech Preview in Infinispan 15.1 (in development right now).

AI-Powered Flashcard Application With Next.js, Clerk, Firebase, Material UI, and LLaMA 3.1

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Flashcards have long been used as an effective tool for learning by providing quick, repeatable questions that help users memorize facts or concepts. Traditionally, flashcards contain a question on one side and the answer on the other. The concept is simple, yet powerful for retention, whether you're learning languages, mathematics, or any subject. An AI-powered flashcard game takes this learning method to the next level. Rather than relying on static content, AI dynamically generates new questions and answers based on user input, learning patterns, and performance over time. This personalization makes the learning process more interactive and adaptive, providing questions that target specific areas where the user needs improvement.

Showing Long Animation Frames in Your DevTools

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 18:06:42

If you’re a web developer, you probably spend a fair amount of time working with Chrome DevTools. It’s one of the best tools out there for diagnosing and improving the performance of your web applications. You can use it to track loading times, optimize CSS and JavaScript, and inspect network activity. But there’s an important piece of performance data that DevTools doesn’t yet expose by default: Long Animation Frames (LoAFs). In this post, I’ll show you how to use the Performance API and Chrome’s extensibility features to expose LoAF data in DevTools. Along the way, I’ll explain what LoAFs are, why they’re crucial for web performance, and provide code snippets to help you track and debug them in your own projects.

Using Oracle Database 23AI for Generative AI RAG Implementation: Part 1

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 17:06:42

At the recent CloudWorld event, Oracle introduced Oracle Database 23c, its next-generation database, which incorporates AI capabilities through the addition of AI vector search to its converged database. This vector search feature allows businesses to run multimodal queries that integrate various data types, enhancing the usefulness of GenAI in business applications. With Oracle Database 23c, there’s no need for a separate database to store and query AI-driven data. By supporting vector storage alongside relational tables, graphs, and other data types, Oracle 23c becomes a powerful tool for developers building business applications, especially for semantic search needs. In this two-part blog series, we’ll explore the basics of vectors and embeddings, explain how the Oracle vector database works, and develop a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application to enhance a local LLM.

Ditch Your Local Setup: Develop Apps in the Cloud With Project IDX

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Recent years have seen a rise in cloud-based IDEs and several options have emerged such as CodeSandBox, Replit, StackBlitz, and more. Cloud-based IDEs allow programming without the need to have a dedicated developer specification machine as they run in the browser directly. They provide complete freedom of writing software from anywhere and anytime. These IDEs have traditionally been great at creating showcase demos and POCs, and have their limitations. In August 2023, Google launched its own cloud-based IDE known as Project IDX. Project IDX provides a complete development environment for developing multi-platform applications. Benefits of Project IDX Project IDX has several key benefits over other major cloud-based IDEs:

Digitalization of Airport and Airlines With IoT and Data Streaming Using Kafka and Flink

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The digitalization of airports faces challenges such as integrating diverse legacy systems, ensuring cybersecurity, and managing the vast amounts of data generated in real time. The vision for a digitalized airport includes seamless passenger experiences, optimized operations, consistent integration with airlines and retail stores, and enhanced security through the use of advanced technologies like IoT, AI, and real-time data analytics. This blog post shows the relevance of data streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink in the aviation industry to enable data-driven business process automation and innovation while modernizing the IT infrastructure with cloud-native hybrid cloud architecture. Schiphol Group operating Amsterdam Airport shows a few real-world deployments. The Digitalization of Airports and the Aviation Industry Digitalization transforms airport operations and improves the experience of employees and passengers. It affects various aspects of airport operations, passenger experiences, and overall efficiency.

Optimizing Vector Search Performance With Elasticsearch

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In an era characterized by an exponential increase in data generation, organizations must effectively leverage this wealth of information to maintain their competitive edge. Efficiently searching and analyzing customer data — such as identifying user preferences for movie recommendations or sentiment analysis — plays a crucial role in driving informed decision-making and enhancing user experiences. For instance, a streaming service can employ vector search to recommend films tailored to individual viewing histories and ratings, while a retail brand can analyze customer sentiments to fine-tune marketing strategies. As data engineers, we are tasked with implementing these sophisticated solutions, ensuring organizations can derive actionable insights from vast datasets. This article explores the intricacies of vector search using Elasticsearch, focusing on effective techniques and best practices to optimize performance. By examining case studies on image retrieval for personalized marketing and text analysis for customer sentiment clustering, we demonstrate how optimizing vector search can lead to improved customer interactions and significant business growth.

High-Performance Reactive REST API and Reactive DB Connection Using Java Spring Boot WebFlux R2DBC Example

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Reactive Programming Reactive programming is a programming paradigm that manages asynchronous data streams and automatically propagates changes, enabling systems to react to events in real time. It’s useful for creating responsive APIs and event-driven applications, often applied in UI updates, data streams, and real-time systems. WebFlux WebFlux is designed for applications with high concurrency needs. It leverages Project Reactor and Reactive Streams, enabling it to handle a large number of requests concurrently with minimal resource usage.

What the CrowdStrike Crash Exposed About the Future of Software Testing

Aggregated on: 2024-11-01 21:51:41

When users worldwide woke up to their Windows devices inoperable, they feared they had fallen victim to the largest cyber-attack ever seen. But it wasn't an attack — their devices were down from a faulty CrowdStrike update. This $5 billion mistake could have been avoided with proper testing and quality assurance. With companies striving to update and publish software rapidly, the learnings from this global panic stemming from one endpoint security software update are telling. The ramifications of the CrowdStrike outage showcase the difficulties in software development today. As our digital world becomes increasingly complex and software evolves rapidly, ensuring high-quality and reliable systems becomes progressively more difficult. Even practiced industry titans can fail to meet quality standards. Therefore, it is crucial to have efficient testing strategies in place.

Smart Routing Using AI for Efficient Logistics and Green Solutions

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The growing demand for efficient logistics and the pressing need for environmental sustainability requires innovative solutions to optimize transportation routes and minimize greenhouse gas emissions. This study explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing logistics efficiency and reducing environmental impact by applying various regression models to predict travel times and emissions using real-world industrial logistics datasets. Key factors considered include vehicle types, traffic conditions, weather, distance, fuel consumption, and package attributes. The study employs a range of machine learning models, including Linear Regression, Ridge and Lasso Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, Gaussian Processes, and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) Regressors. It also integrates advanced deep learning techniques like LSTM, RNN, CNN, and time series forecasting using ARIMA. The models are evaluated using metrics such as Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), R-squared (R²), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), with hyperparameter tuning to optimize performance.

Data Governance Essentials: Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage (Part 5)

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What Is Data Governance, and How Do Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage Strengthen It? Data governance is a framework that is developed through the collaboration of individuals with various roles and responsibilities. This framework aims to establish processes, policies, procedures, standards, and metrics that help organizations achieve their goals. These goals include providing reliable data for business operations, setting accountability and authoritativeness, developing accurate analytics to assess performance, complying with regulatory requirements, safeguarding data, ensuring data privacy, and supporting the data management lifecycle. In the field of data governance, business glossaries, data catalogs, and data lineage are essential for effectively managing data across an organization. With an increase in data, finding the right information has become more challenging. Simultaneously, there are also more rules and regulations than ever before. Here's a brief overview of each:

Monitoring Kubernetes Service Topology Changes in Real-Time

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Horizontally scalable data stores like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and CockroachDB distribute their data across multiple nodes using techniques like consistent hashing. As nodes are added or removed, the data is reshuffled to ensure that the load is spread evenly across the new set of nodes. When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a clustered system, planning the changes at times of low load to minimize disruption to production workloads.

How to Identify Bottlenecks and Increase Copy Activity Throughput in Azure Data Factory

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 21:51:40

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-native ETL tool to process data seamlessly across different sources and sinks. Copy activity is mostly used to copy data from one source to another source. While copying data between two different sources, we need to make sure that the activity is completed in a timely manner to meet business needs and process data within the service level agreement.

4 Essential Strategies for Enhancing Your Application Security Posture

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The rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape presents an array of challenges for businesses of all sizes across all industries. The constant emergence of new cyber threats, including those now powered by AI, is overwhelming current security models. A 2023 study by the Ponemon Institute found that organizations receive an average of 22,111 security alerts per week. This deluge of alerts, many of which are false positives, is preventing teams from effectively prioritizing and dealing with potential threats. A holistic approach to addressing this problem is what Gartner calls Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). The strategies of ASPM address the limitations of traditional AppSec approaches using automation, integration, and the strategic use of open-source tools. Adopting the recommended strategies of ASPM can enable companies to fortify software applications throughout their lifecycle.

Platform Engineering Essentials

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Platform engineering aims to enhance the developer experience through the establishment of secure environments, automated and self-service tools, and streamlined workflows. However, as technology and cyber threats continue to evolve, the integration of automation, security, and AI will be vital to the success of these platforms. In this Refcard, you will learn more about the value of platform engineering, including best practices, tools, core capabilities, how to align business goals, and more.

Boosting Efficiency: Implementing Natural Language Processing With AWS RDS Using CloudFormation

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is revolutionizing how organizations manage data, enabling the automation of text-intensive tasks such as analyzing customer feedback, monitoring sentiment, and recognizing entities. NLP can yield significant insights from extensive datasets when integrated with AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) for efficient data storage and retrieval. This article outlines the comprehensive configuration of an NLP-enabled AWS RDS environment utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates (CFT), accompanied by an in-depth cost and performance analysis to illustrate the benefits of NLP. Advantages of Implementing NLP NLP empowers organizations to do the following:

Exploring AI-Powered Web Development: OpenAI, Node.js, and Dynamic UI Creation

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In the rapidly advancing world of web development, artificial intelligence (AI) is paving the way for new levels of creativity and efficiency. This article takes a deep dive into the exciting synergy between OpenAI's robust API, the flexibility of Node.js, and the possibilities for creating dynamic user interfaces. By examining how these technologies work together, we'll uncover how they can transform our approach to both web development and UI development. Dynamic UI Creation Dynamic UI Creation involves generating user interfaces that can adapt dynamically based on factors like user input, data, or context. In AI-driven UI generation, this concept is elevated by using artificial intelligence to automatically create or modify UI elements.

Faster Startup With Spring Boot 3.2 and CRaC, Part 2

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This is the second part of the blog series “Faster Startup With Spring Boot 3.2 and CRaC," where we will learn how to warm up a Spring Boot application before the checkpoint is taken and how to provide configuration at runtime when the application is restarted from the checkpoint. Overview In the previous blog post, we learned how to use CRaC to start Spring Boot applications ten times faster using automatic checkpoints provided by Spring Boot 3.2. It, however, came with two significant drawbacks:

Java Is Greener on Arm

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Even those not particularly interested in computer technology have heard of microprocessor architectures. This is especially true with the recent news that Qualcomm is rumored to be examining the possibility of acquiring various parts of Intel and Uber is partnering with Ampere Computing. Hardware and software are evolving in parallel, and combining the best of modern software development with the latest Arm hardware can yield impressive performance, cost, and efficiency results.

Multimodal RAG Is Not Scary, Ghosts Are Scary

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I just gave a talk at All Things Open and it is hard to believe that Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) now seems like it has been a technique that we have been doing for years. There is a good reason for that, as over the last two years it has exploded in depth and breadth as the utility of RAG is boundless. The ability to improve the results of generated results from large language models is constantly improving as variations, improvements, and new paradigms are pushing things forward.

How to Get Plain Text From Common Documents in Java

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In this article, we’ll learn how to extract plain text strings from a few of the most common file types (PDF, DOCX, XSLX, PPTX) we can expect to deal with on a day-to-day basis as programmers in an enterprise environment. We’ll briefly review when to use plain text extraction methods over Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text extraction methods, and we’ll discuss some use cases for retrieving plain text in a real-world scenario. Ultimately, we’ll cover a few open-source APIs that are perfect for handling plain text extraction on a one-off basis, at the end we’ll demonstrate a proprietary API that saves time by automatically detecting each different file type before extracting plain text content.

Implementing LSM Trees in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide

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Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures. In this guide, we’ll walk through the implementation of an LSM tree in Golang, discuss features such as Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), block compression, and BloomFilters, and compare it with more traditional key-value storage systems and indexing strategies. We’ll also dive deeper into SSTables, MemTables, and compaction strategies for optimizing performance in high-load environments. LSM Tree Overview An LSM tree works by splitting data between an in-memory component and an on-disk component:

Challenges and Ethical Considerations of AI in Team Management

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Having spent years in the SaaS world, I've seen how AI is transforming team management. But let's be honest — it's not all smooth sailing. There are real challenges and ethical dilemmas we need to unpack. So, let’s cut through the noise and get into what it really means to bring AI into the mix for managing teams. The Double-Edged Sword of Efficiency First things first: AI is a powerhouse when it comes to efficiency. It can crunch numbers, analyze patterns, and make predictions faster than any human ever could. Sounds great, right? Well, yes and no.

Navigating API Challenges in Kubernetes

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Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration. Although APIs are a key part of most architectures, integrating API management directly into this ecosystem requires careful consideration and significant effort. Traditional API management solutions often struggle to cope with the dynamic, distributed nature of Kubernetes. This article explores these challenges, discusses solution paths, shares best practices, and proposes a reference architecture for Kubernetes-native API management. The Complexities of API Management in Kubernetes Kubernetes is a robust platform for managing containerized applications, offering self-healing, load balancing, and seamless scaling across distributed environments. This makes it ideal for microservices, especially in large, complex infrastructures where declarative configurations and automation are key. According to a 2023 CNCF survey, 84% of organizations are adopting or evaluating Kubernetes, highlighting the growing demand for Kubernetes-native API management to improve scalability and control in cloud native environments. However, API management within Kubernetes brings its own complexities. Key tasks like routing, rate limiting, authentication, authorization, and monitoring must align with the Kubernetes architecture, often involving multiple components like ingress controllers (for external traffic) and service meshes (for internal communications). The overlap between these components raises questions about when and how to use them effectively in API management. While service meshes handle internal traffic security well, additional layers of API management may be needed to manage external access, such as authentication, rate limiting, and partner access controls.

Compliance Automated Standard Solution (COMPASS), Part 7: Compliance-to-Policy for IT Operation Policies Using Auditree

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(Note: A list of links for all articles in this series can be found at the conclusion of this article.) In Part 4 of this multi-part series on continuous compliance, we presented designs for Compliance Policy Administration Centers (CPAC) which are typically part of larger platforms known in the industry under various names such as Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), or Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), bundled into those platforms to facilitate the management of the compliance artifacts connecting the Regulatory Policies expressed programmatically as Compliance-as-Code with technical policies implemented as Policy-as-Code. The separation of Compliance-as-Code and Policy-as-Code is purposeful, as different personas (see Part 1) need to independently manage their respective responsibilities according to their expertise; e.g., compliance controls and parameters selection, crosswalks mapping across regulations for compliance and auditor experts, or runtime evidence collectors and checks implementation for code developers or security focals.

Hot Class Reload in Java: A Webpack HMR-Like Experience for Java Developers

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In the world of software development, time is everything. Every developer knows the frustration of waiting for a full application restart just to see a small change take effect. Java developers, in particular, have long dealt with this issue. But what if you didn’t have to stop and restart every time you updated a class? Enter Hot Class Reload (HCR) in Java — a technique that can keep you in the flow, reloading classes on the fly, much like Hot Module Reload (HMR) does in JavaScript. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to implement HCR and integrate it into your Java development workflow. By the end, you’ll have a powerful new tool to reduce those long, unproductive restart times.

How to Create a Pokémon Breeding Gaming Calculator Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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Gaming calculators can provide quick and useful features for gamers, such as calculating stats, damage, or compatibility between in-game elements. In this guide, I'll walk you through creating a simple, yet interactive Pokémon Breeding Calculator using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This project will fetch data from an API and determine if two Pokémon can breed based on their egg groups. You can see a live version of this calculator on Game On Trend (Pokemon Breeding Calculator).

Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Unleashing the Power of Conversational AI for Text-to-SQL

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Conversational AI Conversational AI refers to technologies that enable humans to interact with machines using natural language, either through text or voice. This includes chatbots, voice assistants, and other types of conversational interfaces. Conversational AI for SQL refers to natural language interfaces that enable users to interact with databases using everyday language instead of writing SQL code. This technology allows non-technical users to query and analyze data without requiring extensive SQL knowledge.

Beginners Guide to SwiftUI State Management

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State management is a fundamental concept in app development that involves tracking and updating data that influences the user interface. In SwiftUI, this is particularly crucial due to its declarative nature. To effectively leverage SwiftUI’s capabilities, it’s essential to grasp the various approaches to state management and why they are necessary. This article will delve into the intricacies of state management in SwiftUI. We’ll explore different strategies that programmers can employ to utilize Apple’s powerful state management APIs. Before diving into SwiftUI-specific techniques, let’s examine the broader context of UI programming and understand why state management is indispensable.

Inside the World of Data Centers

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The computing requirements of algorithms have increased dramatically over the past two decades. In particular, machine learning (ML) algorithms have experienced a growth in computing resource demand that exceeds Moore’s Law. While Moore's Law predicts a doubling of processing power every two years, since 2012, ML algorithms have been doubling in computational demands every 3-4 months (“AI and Compute,” 2018). As a result, running these algorithms on a single computer is nearly impossible or prohibitively expensive. A more practical approach is to break down these algorithms into smaller chunks, and then use many commodity computers to run these smaller blocks. To illustrate this, imagine we are training a machine learning model on a dataset with 1 million entries. Instead of using one computer to process the entire dataset, we could break it into 10 blocks of 100K entries each. We would then use 10 computers, each running the training algorithm on the subset of 100K entries. (Note: For simplicity, I've omitted the step of combining the results from these machines, as it’s beyond the scope of this article.)

Increase Model Flexibility and ROI for GenAI App Delivery With Kubernetes

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As with past technology adoption journeys, initial experimentation costs eventually shift to a focus on ROI. In a recent post on X, Andrew Ng extensively discussed GenAI model pricing reductions. This is great news, since GenAI models are crucial for powering the latest generation of AI applications. However, model swapping is also emerging as both an innovation enabler, and a cost saving strategy, for deploying these applications. Even if you've already standardized on a specific model for your applications with reasonable costs, you might want to explore the added benefits of a multiple model approach facilitated by Kubernetes. A Multiple Model Approach to GenAI A multiple model operating approach enables developers to use the most up-to-date GenAI models throughout the lifecycle of an application. By operating in a continuous upgrade approach for GenAI models, developers can harness the specific strengths of each model as they shift over time. In addition, the introduction of specialized, or purpose-built models, enables applications to be tested and refined for optimal accuracy, performance and cost.

Front End Debugging, Part 1: Not Just Console Log

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As a Java developer, most of my focus is on the backend side of debugging. Front-end debugging poses different challenges and has sophisticated tools of its own. Unfortunately, print-based debugging has become the norm in the front-end. To be fair, it makes more sense there as the cycles are different and the problem is always a single-user problem. But even if you choose to use Console.log, there’s a lot of nuance to pick up there. Instant Debugging With the debugger Keyword A cool, yet powerful tool in JavaScript is the debugger keyword. Instead of simply printing a stack trace, we can use this keyword to launch the debugger directly at the line of interest. That is a fantastic tool that instantly brings your attention to a bug. I often use it in my debug builds of the front end instead of just printing an error log.

How to Enhance the Performance of .NET Core Applications for Large Responses

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Problem Statement Our API/application uses the Newtonsoft.Json serializer on .NET Core 3 or above, and our response payloads are larger in size. How do we use the .NET code properties and settings to improve API performance? Possible Case Where You Could Have Started Facing the Performance Issue This issue could have started when you upgraded your API to .NET Core 3.0 or above with the Newtonsoft.Json serializer, or when you created your API with .NET Core 3 or above and using the Newtonsoft.Json serializer.