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What Apple’s Native Containers Mean for Docker Users

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Did you know you can now run containers natively on macOS? At WWDC 2025, Apple announced Containerization and Container CLI — in other words, native Linux container support. Historically, running containers on macOS required launching a full Linux VM, typically via HyperKit or QEMU, to host the Docker Engine. That’s no longer necessary. This is a major shift because Apple’s containerization framework means developers may no longer need third-party tools like Docker for local container execution. Using Apple's new Virtualization and Containerization frameworks, each container runs natively on macOS inside its own lightweight Linux VM. These VMs boot in under a second, isolate workloads cleanly, and are tightly optimized for Apple silicon. Effectively, Apple gives each container a minimal kernel environment without the overhead of managing a full VM runtime.

Event-Driven Architecture's Dark Secret: Why 80% of Event Streams Are Wasted Resources

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Event-driven architecture has become the darling of modern software engineering. Walk into any tech conference, and you'll hear evangelists preaching about decoupling, scalability, and real-time processing. What they don't tell you is the dirty secret hiding behind all those beautiful architecture diagrams: most of what we're streaming is waste. After analyzing production deployments across 15 different applications over the past 18 months, I've uncovered a pattern that should make every architect nervous. Research shows that approximately 80% of event streams represent wasted computational resources, storage costs, and engineering effort. But before you dismiss this as hyperbole, let me show you exactly what's happening under the hood of your "cutting-edge" event infrastructure.

Understanding Multimodal Applications: When AI Models Work Together

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You snap a photo of a hotel lobby and ask your AI assistant, "Find me places with this vibe." Seconds later, you get recommendations. No keywords, no descriptions — just an image and a question. This is multimodal AI in action. For years, AI models operated in silos. Computer vision models processed images. Natural language models handled text. Audio models transcribed speech. Each was powerful alone, but they couldn't talk to each other. If you wanted to analyze a video, you'd need separate pipelines for visual frames, audio tracks, and any text overlays, then somehow stitch the results together. Not anymore. What Is Multimodal AI?Multimodal AI systems process and understand multiple data types simultaneously — text, images, video, audio — and crucially, they understand the relationships between them. The core modalities: Text: Natural language, code, structured data Images: Photos, diagrams, screenshots, medical imagery Video: Sequential visual data with audio and temporal context Audio: Speech, environmental sounds, music GIFs: Animated sequences (underrated for UI tutorials and reactions How Multimodal Systems Actually WorkThink of it like a two-person team: One person describes what they see ("There's a red Tesla at a modern glass building, overcast sky, three people in business attire heading inside"), while the other interprets the context ("Likely a corporate HQ. The luxury EV and professional setting suggest a high-level business meeting"). Modern multimodal models work similarly — specialized components handle different inputs, then share information to build unified understanding. The breakthrough isn't just processing multiple formats; it's learning the connections between them. In this guide, we'll build practical multimodal applications — from video content analyzers to accessibility tools — using current frameworks and APIs. Let's start with the fundamentals. How Multimodal AI Works Behind the ScenesLet's walk through what actually happens when you upload a photo and ask, "What's in this image?" The Three Core Components1. Encoders: Translating to a Common Language Think of encoders as translators. Your photo and question arrive in completely different formats —pixels and text. The system can't compare them directly. Vision Encoder: Takes your image (a grid of RGB pixels) and converts it into a numerical vector —an embedding. This might look like [0.23, -0.41, 0.89, 0.12, ...] with hundreds or thousands of dimensions. Text Encoder: Takes your question "What's in this image?" and converts it into its own embedding vector in the same dimensional space. The key: These encoders are trained so that related concepts end up close together. A photo of a cat and the word "cat" produce similar embeddings — they're neighbors in this high-dimensional space. 2. Embeddings: The Universal Format An embedding is just a list of numbers that captures meaning. But here's what makes them powerful: Similar concepts have similar embeddings (measurable by cosine similarity) They preserve relationships (king - man + woman ≈ queen) Different modalities can share the same embedding space When your image and question are both converted to embeddings, the model can finally "see" how they relate. 3. Adapters: Connecting Specialized Models Here's where it gets practical. Many multimodal systems don't build everything from scratch — they connect existing, powerful models using adapters. What's an adapter? A lightweight neural network layer that bridges two pre-trained models. Think of it as a translator between two experts who speak different languages. Common pattern: Pre-trained vision model (like CLIP's image encoder) → Adapter layer → Pre-trained language model (like GPT) The adapter learns to transform image embeddings into a format the language model understands This is how systems like LLaVA work — they don't retrain GPT from scratch. They train a small adapter that "teaches" GPT to understand visual inputs. Walking Through: Photo + QuestionLet's trace exactly what happens when you ask, "How many people are in this photo?" Step 1: Image Processing Your photo → Vision Encoder → Image embedding [768 dimensions]The vision encoder (often a Vision Transformer or ViT) processes the image in patches, like looking at a grid of tiles, and outputs a rich numerical representation. Step 2: Question Processing "How many people are in this photo?" → Text Encoder → Text embedding [768 dimensions]Step 3: Adapter Alignment Image embedding → Adapter layer → "Visual tokens"The adapter transforms the image embedding into "visual tokens" — fake words that the language model can process as if they were text. You can think of these as the image "speaking" in the language model's native tongue. Step 4: Fusion in the Language Model The language model now receives: [Visual tokens representing the image] + [Text tokens from your question]It processes this combined input using cross-attention — essentially asking: "Which parts of the image are relevant to the question about counting people?" Step 5: Response Generation Language model → "There are three people in this photo." Why This Architecture MattersModularity: You can swap out components. Better vision model released? Just retrain the adapter. Efficiency: Training an adapter (maybe 10M parameters) is far cheaper than training a full multimodal model from scratch (billions of parameters). Leverage existing strengths: GPT-4 is already great at language. CLIP is already great at vision. Adapters let them collaborate without losing their individual expertise. The Interaction Flow Real-World Applications That Actually MatterUnderstanding the architecture is one thing. Seeing it solve real problems is another. Healthcare: Beyond Single-Modality DiagnosticsMedical diagnosis has traditionally relied on specialists examining individual data types —radiologists read X-rays, pathologists analyze tissue samples, and physicians review patient histories. Multimodal AI is changing this paradigm. Microsoft's MedImageInsight Premium demonstrates the power of integrated analysis, achieving 7-15% higher diagnostic accuracy across X-rays, MRIs, dermatology, and pathology compared to single-modality approaches. The system doesn't just look at an X-ray in isolation — it understands how imaging findings relate to patient history, lab results, and clinical notes simultaneously. Oxford University's TrustedMDT agents take this further, integrating directly with clinical workflows to summarize patient charts, determine cancer staging, and draft treatment plans. These systems will pilot at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in early 2026, representing a significant step toward production deployment in critical healthcare environments. The implications extend beyond accuracy improvements. Multimodal systems can identify patterns that span multiple data types, potentially catching early disease indicators that single-modality analysis would miss. E-commerce: Understanding Intent Across ModalitiesThe retail sector is experiencing a fundamental transformation through multimodal AI that understands customer intent expressed through images, text, voice, and behavioral patterns simultaneously. Consider a customer uploading a photo of a dress they saw at a wedding and asking, "Find me something similar but in blue and under $200." Traditional search requires precise keywords and filters. Multimodal AI understands the visual style, color transformation request, and budget constraint in a single query. Tech executives predict AI assistants will handle up to 20% of e-commerce tasks by the end of 2025, from product recommendations to customer service. Meta's Llama 4 Scout, with its 10 million token context window, can maintain a sophisticated understanding of customer interactions across multiple touchpoints, remembering preferences and providing genuinely personalized experiences. Content Moderation: Evaluating Context, Not Just ContentContent moderation has evolved from simple keyword filtering to sophisticated context-aware systems that evaluate whether content violates policies based on the interplay between text, images, and audio. OpenAI's omni-moderation-latest model demonstrates this evolution, evaluating images in conjunction with accompanying text to determine if content contains harmful material. The system shows a 42% improvement in multilingual evaluation, with particularly impressive gains in low-resource languages such as Telugu (6.4x) and Bengali (5.6x). Companies like Grammarly and ElevenLabs have integrated these capabilities into their safety infrastructure, ensuring that AI-generated content across multiple modalities meets safety standards. The key advancement isn't just detecting problematic content but also understanding when context makes seemingly innocuous content harmful, or when potentially sensitive content is actually acceptable within a proper context. Accessibility: Breaking Down Digital BarriersMultimodal AI is revolutionizing accessibility by creating systems that can process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously to identify and remediate accessibility issues in real-time. New vision-language models can generate alt text that describes not just what's in an image, but the relationships, contexts, and implicit meanings that make images comprehensible to users who can't see them. Advanced personalization engines can automatically adjust contrast for users with low vision in the evening, simplify language complexity for users who need it, or predict when someone might need additional navigation support. Practical implementations already exist: OrCam wearable devices for people who are blind instantly read text, recognize faces, and identify products using multimodal AI. WordQ and SpeakQ help people with dyslexia or ADHD by combining text analysis with speech synthesis to suggest words and read text aloud. By 2026 to 2027, AI-powered accessibility scans are projected to detect approximately 70% of WCAG success criteria with 98% accuracy, dramatically reducing the manual effort required to make digital content accessible. What Actually Goes Wrong at ScaleThe technical literature often glosses over practical difficulties that trip up real implementations: Data alignment is deceptively difficult. Synchronizing dialogue with facial expressions in video or mapping sensor data to visual information in robotics requires precision that can fundamentally corrupt your model's understanding if done incorrectly. A 100-millisecond audio-video desynchronization might seem trivial, but it can teach your model that people's lips move after they speak. Computational demands are substantial. Multimodal fine-tuning requires 4-8x more GPU resources than text-only models. Recent benchmarking shows that optimized systems can achieve 30% faster processing through better GPU utilization, but you're still looking at significant infrastructure investment. Google increased its AI spending from $85 billion to $93 billion in 2025 largely due to multimodal computational requirements. Cross-modal bias amplification represents an insidious challenge. When biased inputs interact across modalities, effects compound unpredictably. A dataset with demographic imbalances in images combined with biased language patterns can create systems that appear more intelligent but are actually more discriminatory. The research gap is substantial — Google Scholar returns only 33,400 citations for multimodal fairness research, compared with 538,000 for language model fairness. Legacy infrastructure struggles. Traditional data stacks excel at SQL queries and batch analytics but struggle with real-time semantic processing across unstructured text, images, and video. Organizations often must rebuild entire data pipelines to support multimodal AI effectively. What's Coming: Trends Worth Watching Several emerging developments are reshaping the landscape: Extended context windows of up to 2 million tokens reduce reliance on retrieval systems, enabling more sophisticated reasoning over large amounts of multimodal content. This changes architectural decisions—instead of chunking content and using vector databases, you can process entire documents, videos, or conversation histories in a single pass. Bidirectional streaming enables real-time, two-way communication where both human and AI can speak, listen, and respond simultaneously. Response times have dropped to 0.32 seconds on average for voice interactions, making the experience feel genuinely natural rather than transactional. Test-time compute has emerged as a game-changer. Frontier models like OpenAI's o3 achieve remarkable results by giving models more time to reason during inference rather than simply scaling parameters. This represents a fundamental shift from training-time optimization to inference-time enhancement. Privacy-preserving techniques are maturing rapidly. On-device processing and federated learning approaches enable sophisticated multimodal analysis while keeping sensitive data local, addressing the growing concern that multimodal systems create detailed personal profiles by combining multiple data types. The Strategic Reality By 2030, Gartner predicts that 80% of enterprise software will be multimodal. This isn't a gradual evolution — it's a fundamental restructuring of how AI systems perceive and interact with information. However, Deloitte survey data reveals a sobering implementation gap: while companies actively experiment with multimodal AI, most expect fewer than 30% of current experiments to reach full scale in the next six months. The difference between recognizing potential business value and successfully delivering it in production remains substantial. Success requires more than technical capability. Organizations must address computational requirements, specialized talent acquisition (finding professionals who understand computer vision, NLP, and audio processing simultaneously is challenging), and ethical frameworks that account for cross-modal risks rather than isolated data flaws. The promise of multimodal AI is substantial, but it demands responsible exploration with higher standards of data integration, fairness, and security. As these systems mature toward more natural, efficient, and capable interactions that mirror human perception and cognition, they will become the foundation for a new generation of AI applications. The transformation is already underway. The developers and organizations that begin building multimodal capabilities now — while proactively addressing the associated challenges — will be best positioned to capitalize on this fundamental shift in artificial intelligence capabilities. The era of AI systems that truly understand the world, rather than just processing isolated data streams, has arrived. It's time to build accordingly

How We Predict Dataflow Job Duration Using ML and Observability Data

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Efficiently managing large-scale data pipelines requires not only monitoring job performance but also anticipating how long jobs will run before they begin. This paper presents a practical, telemetry-driven approach for predicting the execution time of Google Cloud Dataflow jobs using machine learning. By combining Apache Airflow for workflow coordination, OpenTelemetry for collecting traces and resource metrics, and BigQuery ML for scalable model training, we develop an end-to-end system capable of generating reliable runtime estimates. The solution continuously ingests real-time observability data, performs feature engineering, updates predictive models, and surfaces insights that support capacity planning, scheduling, and early anomaly detection. Experimental results across multiple regression techniques show that observability-rich signals significantly improve prediction accuracy. This work demonstrates how integrating modern observability frameworks with machine learning can help teams reduce costs, avoid operational bottlenecks, and operate cloud-based data processing systems more efficiently.

Building Your Tech Career Like Code: A Systematic AI Approach

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The traditional “climb the ladder” approach to tech careers has transformed to “climb the lattice.” A data analyst pivots to cloud architecture, a back-end developer transitions to DevSecOps, or a project manager evolves into a technical product owner. As AI accelerates technological change, it requires faster learning and adaptation than any previous transition. Most developers approach career planning like they're coding without requirements: hoping for the best while crossing their fingers. But what if we applied the same systematic thinking we use to architect solutions to engineer our careers?

Parallel Paths and Possibilities to Gen AI for Developers: The Saga of Two Stacks Unfolded via Building a RAG Application in Tandem

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Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of intelligent applications, driving innovation across industries. Python has emerged as the language of choice for GenAI development, thanks to its simplicity, agility in prototyping, and a rich ecosystem of machine learning libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and LangChain. However, Java — long favored for enterprise-scale systems — is actively evolving to stay relevant in this new paradigm. With the rise of Spring AI, Java developers now have a growing toolkit to integrate GenAI capabilities without abandoning their existing infrastructure. While switching from Java to Python is technically feasible, it often involves a shift in development culture and tooling preferences. The convergence of these two ecosystems — Python for experimentation and Java for scalability — offers a compelling narrative for hybrid GenAI architectures.

How Synthetic Data Generation Accelerates the Software Development Lifecycle in the Enterprise

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Today’s enterprises operate under a fundamental tension between time-to-market and regulatory compliance. Fierce competition keeps them on their toes to develop faster, while concerns about data protection compel them to comply with regulations. Data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA may have enhanced data protection, but they have also slowed innovation cycles.

Building Cost-Efficient ETL with Apache Spark Structured Streaming

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Businesses want fraud detection within seconds, personalized recommendations while customers are still browsing, and instant updates for IoT dashboards. Real-time data has gone from a luxury to a necessity. Apache Spark Structured Streaming has become one of the most popular engines for building these pipelines. But here’s the catch: streaming ETL can be expensive if not designed with cost in mind.

Chaos Engineering for Architects: Designing Systems That Embrace Failure

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The Architect's Dilemma: When Perfect Designs Meet Reality Our beautifully designed architecture diagrams are lies. Not intentional ones, but lies nonetheless. They show clean boxes with arrows between them, depicting a world where services always respond, networks never partition, and databases never lock up.

AI Data Storage: Challenges, Capabilities, and Comparative Analysis

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The explosion in the popularity of ChatGPT has once again ignited a surge of excitement in the AI world. Over the past five years, AI has advanced rapidly and has found applications in a wide range of industries. As a storage company, we’ve had a front-row seat to this expansion, watching more and more AI startups and established players emerge across fields like autonomous driving, protein structure prediction, and quantitative investment. AI scenarios have introduced new challenges to the field of data storage. Existing storage solutions are often inadequate to fully meet these demands. In this article, we’ll deep dive into the storage challenges in AI scenarios, critical storage capabilities, and comparative analysis of storage products. I hope this post will help you make informed choices in AI and data storage.

Streaming vs In-Memory DataWeave: Designing for 1M+ Records Without Crashing

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The Real Problem With Scaling DataWeave MuleSoft is built to handle enterprise integrations — but most developers test with small payloads. Everything looks fine in dev, until one day a real file with 1 million records hits your flow. Suddenly, your worker crashes with an OutOfMemoryError, and the job fails halfway through. The truth is, DataWeave by default works in-memory. That’s acceptable for small datasets, but in production, we often deal with:

Escaping the "Excel Trap": Building an AI-Assisted ETL Pipeline Without a Data Team

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Business data often lives in hundreds of disconnected Excel files, making it invisible to decision-makers. Here is a pattern for Citizen Data Engineering using Python, GitHub Copilot, and Qlik Sense to unify data silos without writing a single line of manual code. In the enterprise world, the most common database isn't Oracle or PostgreSQL — it’s Excel.

DZone's 2025 Community Survey

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Another year passed right under our noses, and software development trends moved along with it. The steady rise of AI, the introduction of vibe coding — these are just among the many impactful shifts, and you've helped us understand them better. Now, as we move on to another exciting year, we would like to continue to learn more about you as software developers, your tech habits and preferences, and the topics you wish to know more about. With that comes our annual community survey — a great opportunity for you to give us more insights into your interests and priorities. We ask this because we want DZone to work for you.

From Metrics to Action: Adding AI Recommendations to Your SaaS App

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You log into your DevOps portal, pinched to think about 300 different metrics: CPU, latency, errors, all lighting up red on your dashboard. But what to prioritize? It’s what an AI-based recommendation tool could resolve. Every SaaS platform managing cloud operations records an incredible amount of telemetry data. Most products, however, simply provide visualization: interesting graphics, yet no actionable information. What if your product could provide automated suggestions for config, scaling, or alerts based on tenant behavior?

2026 IaC Predictions: The Year Infrastructure Finally Grows Up

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The industry spent the last decade racing to automate the cloud, and 2026 will be the year we find out what happens when automation actually wins. AI is writing Terraform and OpenTofu faster than teams can review it. Cloud providers are shipping higher-level services every month. Business units want new environments on demand. The IaC footprint inside large enterprises is exploding.

Beyond Containers: Docker-First Mobile Build Pipelines (Android and iOS) — End-to-End from Code to Artifact

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Introduction In many mobile app shops, builds are still done locally (on dev laptops) or through fragile CI scripts. This leads to inconsistent builds, wasted hours onboarding developers, or debugging “but it worked on my machine” issues. Using Docker — already popular for backend and microservices — mobile teams can also build a reproducible, scalable, and version-controlled pipeline for both Android and iOS (to the extent possible), which speeds up development, reduces “works on my machine” issues, and enables hybrid mobile/web-backend synergy.

The Agent Trap: Why AI's Autonomous Future Might Be Its Biggest Liability

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I've been covering enterprise AI deployments since Watson was still pretending to revolutionize healthcare, and I've learned to distinguish genuine paradigm shifts from rebranded hype cycles. What's happening with agentic AI in 2025 feels uncomfortably like both. The pitch is seductive: autonomous software agents that plan, reason, and execute complex tasks without constant human supervision. Instead of asking a chatbot for information, you delegate an entire workflow — "book my travel to the conference in Austin, find a hotel near the venue, block my calendar, and brief me on attendees I should meet." The agent figures out the rest.

Ambient Agentic Systems – A New Era Begins

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In recent years, the field of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) has transformed sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, automobiles & finance. GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in language understanding, content creation, and reasoning. However, these significant strides have brought forth their fair share of challenges, like maintaining performance, efficiency, and adaptability as they scale. Finetuning and deploying sophisticated gen AI models require significant computational power, which can be costly and infrastructure-intensive. This has meant that only large organizations with deep pockets could leverage gen AI at scale.

Virtual Threads in JDK 21: Revolutionizing Java Multithreading

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What is Virtual Thread Multi-threading is a widely used feature across the industry for developing Java-based applications. It allows us to run operations in parallel, enabling faster task execution. The number of threads created by any Java application is limited by the number of parallel operations the OS can handle; in other words, the number of threads in a Java application is equal to the number of OS threads. Until now, this limitation has created a bottleneck on further scaling any application, considering the current fast-paced ecosystem. To overcome this limitation, Java has introduced the concept of Virtual Thread in JDK21. A Java application creates a Virtual Thread and is not associated with any OS thread. It means every Virtual Thread does not need to be dependent on a Platform Thread (aka OS thread). Virtual Thread will work on any task independently and will acquire a Platform Thread only when it needs to perform any I/O operation.

Zero Trust in CI/CD Pipelines: A Practical DevSecOps Implementation Guide

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Securing modern CI/CD pipelines has become significantly more challenging as teams adopt cloud-native architectures and accelerate their release cycles. Attackers now target build systems, deployment workflows, and the open-source components organizations rely on every day. This tutorial provides a practical look at how Zero Trust principles can strengthen the entire software delivery process. It walks through real steps you can apply immediately using identity-based authentication, automated scanning, policy checks, and hardened Kubernetes deployments. The goal is simple: make sure that only trusted code, moving through a trusted pipeline, reaches production. As organizations continue transitioning to cloud-native applications and distributed systems, the CI/CD pipeline has become a critical part of the software supply chain. Unfortunately, this also makes it an increasingly attractive target for attackers. Compromising a build system or deployment workflow can lead to unauthorized code changes, credential theft, or even the silent insertion of malicious workloads into production.

ITBench, Part 3: IT Compliance Automation with GenAI CISO Assessment Agent

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Developed as part of IBM's ITBench framework, which we introduced in ITBench, Part 1: Next-Gen Benchmarking for IT Automation Evaluation, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Compliance Assessment Agent (CAA) represents a pioneering methodology for automating cybersecurity compliance processes in modern IT environments. This AI-powered agent addresses the critical challenge of scaling security compliance operations in complex, rapidly evolving IT environments and technologies. Traditional compliance approaches that rely on dedicated security teams to manually identify weaknesses and assess compliance posture are no longer viable for modern organizations operating at scale.

Secrets in Code: Understanding Secret Detection and Its Blind Spots

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In a world where attackers routinely scan public repositories for leaked credentials, secrets in source code represent a high-value target. But even with the growth of secret detection tools, many valid secrets still go unnoticed. It’s not because the secrets are hidden, but because the detection rules are too narrow or overcorrect in an attempt to avoid false positives. This creates a trade-off between wasting development time investigating false signals and risking a compromised account. This article highlights research that uncovered hundreds of valid secrets from various third-party services publicly leaked on GitHub. Responsible disclosure of the specific findings is important, but the broader learnings include which types of secrets are common, the patterns in their formatting that cause them to be missed, and how scanners work so that their failure points can be improved.

Synergizing Intelligence and Orchestration: Transforming Cloud Deployments with AI and Kubernetes

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Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way today's cloud infrastructure is operated and deployed natively with Kubernetes. AI has become a major driver in helping global businesses streamline resources, scale workloads, and automate several activities. By incorporating AI with Kubernetes, cloud management advances to an entirely new level, enabling smarter decision making, automation, and complete optimization of resources. In this article, we describe how AI can support cloud platforms — especially those powered by Kubernetes — outlining the barriers to adoption and the concrete results achieved when these technologies are applied. As cloud computing matures, the demand for more efficient, scalable and automated cloud deployment continues to grow, pushing organizations to redefine their cloud environments. Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration platform, has become fundamental for managing container-based applications in the cloud. AI is transforming how cloud resources are utilized, and Kubernetes provides an advanced platform for deploying containerized applications automatically. Together, they form a strong foundation for an ecosystem that fosters innovation, scalability and cost-effectiveness. This article discusses how the combination of AI and Kubernetes is streamlining cloud operations and enabling unprecedented levels of efficiency and creativity.

Blockchain Use Cases in Test Automation You’ll See Everywhere in 2026

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The rapid evolution of digital ecosystems has placed test automation at the center of quality assurance for modern software. But as systems grow increasingly distributed, data-sensitive, and security-driven, traditional automation approaches struggle to maintain transparency, consistency, and trust. This is why blockchain technology — once associated primarily with cryptocurrencies — is now becoming a fundamental part of enterprise testing processes. By 2026, blockchain-backed test automation frameworks are no longer conceptual — they are mainstream. Leading enterprises, development teams, and innovative test automation companies are leveraging blockchain to improve traceability, ensure integrity, and create tamper-proof testing ecosystems. Blockchain’s inherent strengths — immutability, decentralization, transparency, and cryptographic security — make it an ideal solution to strengthen test automation pipelines.

The Observability Gap: Why Your Monitoring Strategy Isn't Ready for What's Coming Next

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Anyone who’s been to London knows the announcements at the Tube to “Mind the gap,” but what about the gap that’s developing in our monitoring and observability strategies? I’ve been through this ordeal before, and have run a distributed system that was humming along perfectly. My alerts were manageable, my dashboards made sense, and when things broke, I could usually track down the issue in a reasonable amount of time. Fast forward 3–5 years, and things have changed. We added Kubernetes, embraced microservices, and maybe even sprinkled in some AI-powered features these days. Suddenly, you're drowning in telemetry data, your alert fatigue is real, and correlating issues across your distributed architecture feels stressful.

How to Test POST Requests With REST Assured Java for API Testing: Part II

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In the previous article, we learnt the basics, setup, and configuration of the REST Assured framework for API test automation. We also learnt to test a POST request with REST Assured by sending the request body as: String JSON Array/ JSON Object Using Java Collections Using POJO In this tutorial article, we will learn the following:

Modern Blueprint for Privacy-First AI/ML Systems

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The era of identifier-driven machine learning is over. The next decade belongs to privacy-preserving architectures where systems learn from patterns, not people. Here’s what that means in practice Process and anonymize data on the device, not in the cloud. Design and run experiments that do not require specific user identifiers. Train global models through federated learning. Treat data as perishable by design, not as a policy checkbox. If you’re building ML or analytics infrastructure today, privacy isn’t an add-on. You need to treat it as a core architectural constraint and a trust multiplier.

The Tinker and the Tool: Lessons Learned for Using AI in Daily Development

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AI tools have swept through the development landscape like a storm. From co-pilots integrated directly into IDEs (such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer) to large language models (LLMs) used for conceptual design (such as Claude and custom agents), AI can write code faster than any engineer. It can review pull requests, write unit tests, and even analyze project structure. The value is undeniable: AI can support massive productivity gains. Yet, beyond the market hype, there is a fundamental lesson to be learned: AI is a powerful tool, but it is not a replacement for human intellect.

Taming Gen AI Video: An Architectural Approach to Addressing Identity Drift and Hallucination

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If you've spent any time experimenting with generative AI video tools like Runway or Google's Veo, you've seen the magic. You've also, almost certainly, hit the architectural roadblocks. A character's face subtly morphs from one scene to the next until they’re unrecognizable by the tenth clip. Objects you never prompted mysteriously pop up in the background. These aren't just minor bugs; they are critical consistency failures that can derail any serious AI video project.

How GPU Power Is Shaping the Next Wave of Generative AI

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Over the last couple of years, generative AI has advanced at a breathtaking pace: new models, new interfaces, new products. Yet what actually enabled this acceleration was not a sudden flash of algorithmic genius; it was the massive increase in available compute. In particular: GPUs. The uncomfortable truth in AI today is simple: model quality is increasingly constrained by how much GPU compute you can access and how efficiently you can deploy it. We have reached a point where the bottleneck is no longer imagination; it is infrastructure. The next wave of generative AI will be driven less by novel algorithms and more by compute scale, throughput, and the operational discipline required to manage themes – themes that will define which companies and countries lead in AI innovation.

Demystifying Agentic Test Automation for QA Teams

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Agentic test automation is a fundamental shift in how we test. Instead of depending on static, hand-written scripts that must be continually updated, agentic systems analyze apps, plan testing strategies, execute tests, and adapt to changing code — largely on their own. In this blog post, we’ll look at agentic test automation. We’ll cover what it is, how it improves traditional test automation, the skills needed in order to move to the agentic world, how to navigate the pitfalls of agentic automation, and some of the tools that you can use.

A Diagnostic Framework for Investigating Model Performance Degradation in Production

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Your production model’s accuracy was 90% during launch. Six weeks later, user complaints and evaluations indicate an accuracy of 70%. What to do? This kind of silent performance decay is one of the most dangerous failure modes in production machine learning. Models that work flawlessly on day one can drift quietly into irrelevance. And when the default response is always retrain, teams risk burning time, energy, and compute with little understanding of what actually went wrong. Retraining without diagnosis can be as wasteful as lighting money on fire.

A Guide for Deploying .NET 10 Applications Using Docker's New Workflow

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Container deployment has become the cornerstone of scalable, repeatable application delivery. .NET 10 represents the latest evolution of Microsoft's cloud-native framework, offering exceptional performance, deep cross-platform support, and tight integration with modern DevOps practices. Developing with .NET 10 offers incredible performance and cross-platform capability. When paired with Docker, .NET 10 applications become truly portable artifacts that run identically across development laptops, CI/CD pipelines, staging environments, and production infrastructure — whether on-premises, cloud-hosted, or hybrid. This comprehensive guide walks you through a professional-grade containerization workflow using the .NET CLI and Docker's automated tooling, taking you from a fresh project scaffold to a production-ready, optimized container image. The next logical step is to deploy that application using Docker, which ensures that your code runs identically everywhere — from your local machine to any cloud environment. This guide outlines the most efficient process for containerizing any new .NET 10 web application using the integrated docker init tool.

Advanced Docker Security: From Supply Chain Transparency to Network Defense

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Introduction: Why Supply Chain and Network Security Matter Now In 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability exposed a critical weakness in modern software: we don't know what's inside our containers. A single vulnerable library (log4j) in thousands of applications created a global security crisis that lasted months. Organizations scrambled to answer one simple question: "Are we affected?" Most couldn't answer. The same year, the SolarWinds breach demonstrated another critical gap: even with isolated networks, attackers who breach one container can move laterally through flat network architectures, compromising entire systems.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Filters for Developers (Part 11)

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This series is a general-purpose getting-started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project. The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Scaling QA Processes for Enterprise App Development: A Practical Guide

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Quality assurance (QA) is the key to successful enterprise app development. It guarantees the complex systems meet the needs of business without affecting the performance, security, or usability. As business enterprises increase their digital activities, QA become more complex to meet growing app complexity, speed, and user demands. This is an effective, practical guide to enterprise mobile app development that emphasizes how businesses can scale QA to deliver strong applications in competitive business markets.

Why Senior Developers Are Actually Less Productive with AI Copilot (And What That Tells Us)

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I watched the tech lead spend forty-five minutes wrestling with GitHub Copilot suggestions for an API endpoint. The same task would have taken fifteen minutes without the AI assistant. That situation was not an isolated case. Across the organization, we started to notice a pattern: experienced developers were slower when using AI coding assistants than junior developers. This pattern made us rethink how we use these tools. While AI coding assistants slowed down experienced developers, junior developers maintained their momentum.

Securing Cloud Workloads in the Age of AI

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With the growth of cloud technologies dominating news headlines worldwide, it is no understatement to say that the rapid expansion of cloud and infrastructure technology has reached truly unprecedented levels. Cloud has evolved into the backbone of modern digital operations — highly scalable, globally distributed, and capable of powering everything from consumer applications to mission-critical enterprise workloads. As a broad range of industries adopt cloud computing at record speed, a new and rapidly emerging force is simultaneously reshaping the cybersecurity landscape: Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is revolutionizing automation, efficiency, and decision-making, but it is also equipping attackers with new, highly sophisticated tools that place cloud systems under constant threat. Threat actors now use AI to automate reconnaissance, craft targeted exploits, evade detection, and manipulate cloud configurations. This ultimately means that securing cloud workloads is no longer merely a best practice — it has become a foundational operational requirement. In this article, we explore key strategies organizations can adopt to protect their cloud environments from emerging AI-driven threats.

How Migrating to Hardened Container Images Strengthens the Secure Software Development Lifecycle

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Container images are the key components of the software supply chain. If they are vulnerable, the whole chain is at risk. This is why container image security should be at the core of any Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) program. The problem is that studies show most vulnerabilities originate in the base image, not the application code. And yet, many teams still build their containers on top of random base images, undermining the security practices they already have in place. The result is hundreds of CVEs in security scans, failed audits, delayed deployments, and reactive firefighting instead of a clear vulnerability-management process.

Architecting Intelligence: A Complete LLM-Powered Pipeline for Unstructured Document Analytics

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Unstructured documents remain one of the most difficult sources of truth for enterprises to operationalize. Whether it's compliance teams flooded with scanned contracts, engineering departments dealing with decades of legacy PDFs, or operations teams handling invoices and reports from heterogeneous systems, organizations continue to struggle with making these documents searchable, analyzable, and reliable. Traditional OCR workflows and keyword search engines were never built to interpret context, identify risk, or extract meaning. The emergence of LLMs, multimodal OCR engines, and vector databases has finally created a practical path toward intelligent end-to-end document understanding, moving beyond raw extraction into actual reasoning and insight generation. In this article, I outline a modern, production-ready unstructured document analytics process, built from real-world deployment across compliance, tax, operations, and engineering functions. The Challenge of Heterogeneous Document Ecosystems Unstructured documents introduce complexity long before the first line of text is extracted. A single enterprise repository can contain digital PDFs, scanned images, email attachments, handwritten notes, multi-column layouts, or low-resolution files produced by outdated hardware. Each format demands a different extraction strategy, and treating them uniformly invites failure. OCR engines misinterpret characters, tables become distorted, numerical formats drift, and crucial metadata is lost in translation.

Breaking Into Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know

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You’ve been a developer or an engineer for a while now, and you know each module of your codebase inside out. You’ve solved every kind of pesky bug. But lately, you’ve been feeling that something is missing: the bigger picture that lies beyond the world of your module. In this article, we explore exactly those next steps: how an engineer grows into an architect, the different types of architect roles and their areas of focus, and finally, the skills or certifications that could propel you forward in that direction, with intent.

Building Trusted, Performant, and Scalable Databases: A Practitioner’s Checklist

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Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Database Systems: Fusing Transactional Speed and Analytical Insight in Modern Data Ecosystems. Modern databases face a fundamental paradox: They have never been more accessible, yet they have never been more vulnerable. Cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and remote workforces have modified the dynamics of traditional network perimeters, and the usual security approaches have become obsolete. A database sitting behind a firewall is no longer safe. Breaches can increasingly come from compromised credentials, misconfigured APIs, and insider threats rather than external network attacks.

Mastering Fluent Bit: 3 Tips for Telemetry Pipeline Multiline Parsers for Developers (Part 10)

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This series is a general-purpose getting-started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

When Dell's 49 Million Records Walked Out the Door: Why Zero Trust Is No Longer Optional

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I've spent the better part of two decades watching companies learn hard lessons about security. But nothing prepared me for what I saw unfold in 2024. It started in May. Dell disclosed that attackers had exploited a partner portal API — one they probably thought was "internal" enough not to worry about — to siphon off 49 million customer records. Names, addresses, purchase histories. All of it.

Selenium Testing: A Complete Guide

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Selenium is widely loved by web testers worldwide thanks to its versatility and simplicity. Testing with Selenium is relatively straightforward, which is why it is commonly used by developers looking to move from manual to automation testing. In this article, we’ll show you how to do Selenium testing in depth. History of Selenium Selenium began in 2004, when Jason Huggins, an engineer at ThoughtWorks, needed to frequently test a web application. To avoid the hassle of manual testing, he built a JavaScript tool called JavaScriptTestRunner to automate user actions like clicking and typing. Later, this tool was renamed Selenium Core, and it became popular within ThoughtWorks. However, it had a major limitation: it couldn’t bypass a browser’s same-origin policy, which blocked interactions with domains other than the one it was on. In 2005, Paul Hammant created Selenium Remote Control (RC) to solve this issue. It allowed tests to be written in various programming languages and run across different browsers by injecting JavaScript via a server. This made Selenium more flexible and widely adopted. In 2006, Simon Stewart from Google developed Selenium WebDriver, which directly controlled browsers using their native APIs, making automation faster and more reliable. By 2024, Selenium 4 is the latest version. It offers a more straightforward API, better browser support, and native WebDriver protocol, making web automation easier and more efficient.

Commercial ERP in the Age of APIs and Microservices

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have a long history of supporting commercial activities in both the manufacturing and retail industries. Conventionally, Commercial ERP systems were large, single-purpose software suites that handled an organization's finance, supply chain, HR, and other business processes in a single place. Although efficient, these systems were usually expensive, inflexible, and difficult to upgrade. Modern commercial ERP solutions are getting leaner, more modular, and developer-friendly due to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and microservices architecture. It is not merely a technical transition that is underway- it is transforming the way organizations are thinking about integration, scalability, and innovation.

AI-Driven Alpha: Building Equity Models That Survive Emerging Markets

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Artificial intelligence is now embedded into nearly every corner of modern financial markets. From reinforcement learning systems optimizing order execution to deep learning models parsing thousands of quarterly transcripts in seconds, AI adoption in equities has become mainstream. However, the story becomes more complicated once these tools leave controlled environments. A model that performs elegantly in a backtest built on U.S. equities or European indices can falter within days when applied to markets with thinner liquidity, sharper retail flows, or policy-driven interventions. The real challenge isn't whether AI works — it clearly does — but whether the way we engineer AI makes it capable of surviving unpredictable market conditions.

Designing Java Web Services That Recover From Failure Instead of Breaking Under Load

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Web applications depend on Java-based services more than ever. Every request that comes from a browser, a mobile app, or an API client eventually reaches a backend service that must respond quickly and consistently. When traffic increases or a dependency slows down, many Java services fail in ways that are subtle at first and catastrophic later. A delay becomes a backlog. A backlog becomes a timeout. A timeout becomes a full service outage. The goal of a reliable web service is not to avoid every failure. The real goal is to recover from failure fast enough that users never notice. What matters is graceful recovery.

Reproducibility as a Competitive Edge: Why Minimal Config Beats Complex Install Scripts

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The Reproducibility Problem Software teams consistently underestimate reproducibility until builds fail inconsistently, environments drift, and install scripts become unmaintainable. In enterprise contexts, these failures translate directly into lost time, higher costs, and eroded trust. Complex install scripts promise flexibility but deliver fragility. They accumulate technical debt, introduce subtle environment variations, and create debugging nightmares that consume developer productivity.

How to Achieve and Maintain Cloud Compliance With System Initiative

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If you’re responsible for keeping a production cloud stack both fast and compliant, you already know that compliance is rarely an engineering problem at first. It usually shows up later — as tickets, spreadsheets, and audits — long after the infrastructure has already been built. With System Initiative, compliance becomes something you design into your infrastructure model from day one, verify continuously, and prove on demand. System Initiative builds a live digital twin of your infrastructure and lets you express policy at three layers: native cloud policy, component-level qualifications, and high-level control documents evaluated by AI agents. Together, these layers provide preventive guardrails, continuous detection, and real-time audit evidence — without bolting on yet another brittle toolchain.