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AI-Powered Security for the Modern Software Supply Chain: Reinforcing Software Integrity in an Era of Autonomous Code and Expanding Risk

Aggregated on: 2025-07-17 12:59:22

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Software Supply Chain Security: Enhancing Trust and Resilience Across the Software Development Lifecycle. In today's software landscape, the supply chain has grown from a controlled pipeline to a vast, interconnected ecosystem. Modern development relies heavily on third-party dependencies, open-source components, distributed CI/CD pipelines, and ephemeral cloud-native environments. While this fosters rapid innovation, it also amplifies risk exposure. High-profile breaches like SolarWinds and Log4Shell revealed how a single weak link can cascade across thousands of organizations.

Simplifying Code Migration: The Benefits of the New Ampere Porting Advisor for x86 to Arm64

Aggregated on: 2025-07-17 12:29:22

The demand for efficient software porting solutions is increasing. With the transition from legacy x86 to Arm64 — and particularly Ampere processors — gaining momentum, developers are looking for ways to expedite the migration of existing codebases. The Ampere Porting Advisor, available via Github's page, is intended to assist with this process. The tool provides a streamlined migration process, allowing developers to save time and effort. It automates many of the manual steps involved in porting code, reducing the risk of errors, and ensuring consistency throughout the migration. By analyzing the source code, the advisor provides detailed insights into the required changes, highlights potential pitfalls, and recommends optimal modifications. This guidance enables developers to navigate the intricacies of transitioning between architectures more efficiently, and accelerates the overall migration process.

Fraud Detection in Mobility Services With Apache Kafka and Flink

Aggregated on: 2025-07-17 12:14:22

Mobility services like Uber, Grab, FREE NOW (Lyft), and DoorDash are built on real-time data. Every trip, delivery, and payment relies on accurate, instant decision-making. But as these services scale, they become prime targets for sophisticated fraud—GPS spoofing, fake accounts, payment abuse, and more. Traditional, batch-based fraud detection can’t keep up. It reacts too late, misses complex patterns, and creates blind spots that fraudsters exploit. To stop fraud before it happens, mobility platforms need data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for fraud detection. This blog explores how leading platforms are using real-time event processing to detect and block fraud as it happens—protecting revenue, user trust, and platform integrity at scale. The Business of Mobility Services (Ride-Hailing, Food Delivery, Taxi Aggregators, Etc.) Mobility services have become an essential part of modern urban life. They offer convenience and efficiency through ride-hailing, food delivery, car-sharing, e-scooters, taxi aggregators, and micro-mobility options. Companies such as Uber, Lyft, FREE NOW (former MyTaxi; acquired by Lyft recently), Grab, Careem, and DoorDash connect millions of passengers, drivers, restaurants, retailers, and logistics partners to enable seamless transactions through digital platforms.

Optimizing Cloud Costs With Serverless Architectures: A Technical Perspective

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Abstract Serverless computing has fundamentally transformed cloud architecture, particularly for scale-out stateless applications. This paper explores the services provided by serverless architectures in general and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) specifically in reducing cloud costs. Serverless computing eliminates the need for provisioning and managing static resources by leveraging a pay-per-use pricing model. The deliverables include various cost optimization techniques, such as dynamic resource scaling, efficient function design, and optimized data management, all while maintaining a balance between performance and cost. Practical case studies illustrate real-world applications of serverless architectures in large-scale optimization problems and latency-sensitive services.

The Invisible Risk in Your Middleware: A Next.js Flaw You Shouldn’t Ignore

Aggregated on: 2025-07-16 20:14:21

Web development in 2025 has evolved at an incredible pace. We’ve gone from clunky monoliths to sleek, scalable apps powered by frameworks like Next.js, which millions of developers now rely on for building modern, server-rendered React applications. But as our tools get more advanced, so do the threats.

Optimizing Your IDP Using Centralized Configuration Management With IBM Cloud App Configuration: A Complete Guide

Aggregated on: 2025-07-16 19:14:21

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are becoming essential for boosting efficiency, scalability, and security. These platforms are designed by platform engineering teams with developers in mind, ensuring they have the right tools to streamline their workflows. At the heart of every IDP are five key components (next section) that keeps everything running smoothly. IBM Cloud App Configuration (IBM Cloud AC) plays a crucial role in this ecosystem to do centralized configuration management. It offers a scalable, fault tolerant, and secure way to manage dynamic configurations, feature flags, and access (allow listing) management which is all access controlled. It seamlessly aligns with the core components of an IDP, helping teams maintain flexibility and control.

Streamline Your ELT Workflow in Snowflake With Dynamic Tables and Medallion Design

Aggregated on: 2025-07-16 18:14:21

Snowflake offers Dynamic Tables, a declarative way to build automated, incremental, and dependency-aware data transformations. They modernize your data pipelines by delivering real-time insights at scale, with minimal operational overhead. What Are Dynamic Tables? Dynamic Tables are auto-updating, materialized tables in Snowflake that handle your transformation logic for you. All you need to do is define:

Engineering High-Scale Real Estate Listings Systems Using Golang, Part 1

Aggregated on: 2025-07-16 17:14:21

In high-scale real estate platforms, the real challenge isn’t just about fetching listings, it’s about processing and serving millions of records across diverse MLS (Multiple Listing Service) providers with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency. Whether you’re integrating with the United States’ BrightMLS or Canada’s TRREB, each MLS comes with its own quirks: varying data models, inconsistent metadata, irregular update cycles, and evolving schemas. At scale, those differences are edge cases no longer; they’re daily roadblocks. Your backend must not only ingest and normalize terabytes’ worth of listing data but also cope with real-time sync, deduplication, tagging, scoring, and advanced filtering, bottleneck-free. For our team at a high-flying Vancouver-based real estate startup, the answer was to design a system in Go (Golang) that would tolerate high concurrency, have hard memory limits, and operate under realistic production pressure.

Making AI Faster: A Deep Dive Across Users, Developers, and Businesses

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AI isn’t just about building smarter models—it's about making them practical, performant, and scalable. This means solving for three interdependent axes: speed, quality, and cost. Let’s break down why these matter across three critical stakeholder perspectives: End Users expect seamless, trustworthy, and responsive AI experiences. AI Developers need faster iteration loops, debuggable pipelines, and scalable training. Business Stakeholders demand ROI, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Think of AI powering a voice assistant or a self-driving car or any other AI use-case. Speed determines usability, accuracy builds trust, and cost dictates feasibility. I am writing these articles as a three part series to help discover practical strategies to accelerate AI development, boost performance, and optimize costs without compromising innovation. Drawing from real-world experiences, we will discuss Making AI Faster, Better, Cheaper.

Real-Time Webcam-Based Sign Language and Speech Bidirectional Translation System

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Introduction Communication between deaf individuals who rely on sign language and those who do not understand sign language remains a significant challenge. Globally, an estimated 466 million people have disabling hearing loss and rely on visual languages like American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary means of communication. Without an interpreter, deaf persons often face barriers in everyday interactions such as education, healthcare, and customer service. AI-powered sign language translation offers a promising solution by automatically translating sign language into spoken/written language and vice versa, thereby closing the divide in communication. Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning enable robust recognition of hand gestures and facial expressions, while NLP and speech technologies can generate fluent sign language or speech output. The objective of this research is to design a two-way translation system that: (1) recognizes sign language from webcam video and converts it to text and audible speech in real time, and (2) converts spoken language (voice) into accurate sign language, presented via an animated avatar. By facilitating bidirectional communication, such a system can greatly enhance the independence and social integration of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. In the following sections, we discuss background and related work in sign language recognition and synthesis, detail our methodology including the AI models and system architecture, present experimental results, and examine the impact on the deaf community along with future research directions. Related Work Early approaches to automated sign language translation involved instrumented gloves or heuristic computer-vision techniques. For example, instrumented glove devices with sensors have been used to capture hand motions, but these solutions can be intrusive and limited to specific vocabularies. With the rise of computer vision, focus shifted to camera-based sign language recognition. Traditional vision methods employed techniques like skin-color segmentation and handcrafted features (e.g., Haar-like features or optical flow) to detect hand gestures, but often struggled with variability in lighting and sign execution.

Data Ingestion: The Front Door to Modern Data Infrastructure

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Businesses thrive on data—but only if that data is ingested effectively. Whether it’s retail transactions, IoT sensor readings, financial records, or user interactions, the ability to collect and move data into operational and analytical systems is mission-critical. Data ingestion is no longer just an ETL job; it’s the front door to modern data infrastructure. With growing data volumes, real-time use cases, and stricter compliance requirements, organizations must architect ingestion pipelines that are scalable, secure, and purpose-built. AWS offers a rich set of ingestion services, but how do you choose the right one for your business needs?

ZapBot: Building a Chatbot With OpenAI and Gradio

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Chatbots have become a foundational element of modern digital systems, revolutionizing the way businesses and individuals interact with users and automate workflows. Their importance lies in their ability to deliver instant, scalable, and personalized communication while reducing the need for human intervention. As artificial intelligence and natural language processing evolve, chatbots are increasingly capable of handling complex tasks with high efficiency and consistency. One of their key advantages is the enhancement of user experience. By offering 24/7 availability and consistent responses, chatbots improve customer satisfaction and reduce service delays. For instance, retail websites use chatbots to assist users with product searches or order tracking, providing real-time support around the clock.

Maximizing Return on Investment When Securing Our Supply Chains: Where to Focus Our Limited Time to Maximize Reward

Aggregated on: 2025-07-16 12:59:21

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Software Supply Chain Security: Enhancing Trust and Resilience Across the Software Development Lifecycle. The goal of DevOps and DevSecOps — and whatever future contractions come next — has been to break down walls, but in practice, it usually means that developers take on a greater burden. Now, developers are not just responsible for delivering a satisfactory product on time, but also managing the operations and security of the product. This begs the question: Is it possible for developers to accomplish all of this? The answer is yes, but only if we spend our time wisely.

Compliance Automated Standard Solution (COMPASS), Part 8: Agentic AI Policy as Code for Compliance Automation With Prompt Declaration Language

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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 the last two blog posts of this multi-part series on continuous compliance, we presented Compliance Policy Administration Centers (CPAC) that facilitate the management of various compliance artifacts connecting the Regulatory Policies expressed as Compliance-as-Code with technical policies implemented as Policy-as-Code. This bridging is the key enabler of end-to-end continuous compliance: from authoring controls and profiles to mapping to technical policies and rules, to collecting assessment results from the policy engines, and finally to aggregating them against regulatory compliance into an encompassing posture for the whole environment. A critical limitation that surfaces for the compliance teams is their shortage on technical resources and skills, making the task of bridging into technology level programatic rules, check, and evidence collection extremely challenging.

Debug Like a Pro in 2025: 10 New Eclipse Java Debugger Features to Enhance Your Productivity (With Spring Boot Examples)

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You’re debugging a bug related to inflated ratings in the /books/{id}/summary endpoint. You drop a breakpoint in BookService.getAverageRating(String), step through the code, and inspect the reviews list in the Variables view. Everything looks fine… until you spot a suspicious entry, a review for the same user added more than once. You pause and think: “Hmm… maybe these duplicate entries are causing the issue. Should I be using a Set instead of a List?” So, you try to locate where this reviews variable is declared. And that’s when it hits you, the code isn’t exactly minimal! 1. Navigate to Variable Declaration - “Which Variable Is This? I’ve Seen That Name 5 Times Already..”

Securing Software Delivery: Zero Trust CI/CD Patterns for Modern Pipelines

Aggregated on: 2025-07-15 20:14:21

Modern CI/CD pipelines are essential for rapid and reliable software delivery. But as pipelines automate more stages of the development lifecycle—from code validation to production deployment—they have also become a major target for exploitation. Traditional pipelines often operate on broad trust: long-lived credentials, shared secrets, unverified execution environments, and permissive access controls. These assumptions introduce significant risks in today’s cloud-native infrastructure, where build agents may be ephemeral, distributed across regions, and provisioned dynamically.

Decoding Database Speed: Essential Server Resources and Their Impact

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This article examines the critical server resources, including CPU, storage, throughput, IOPS, memory, disk queue depth, latency, and disk swapping, that collectively impact database performance. Using a "restaurant kitchen" analogy, it demystifies how each component contributes to data processing efficiency. The piece explains the consequences of resource bottlenecks. It offers practical tuning strategies, from query optimization and hardware upgrades to proper memory management and I/O best practices, emphasizing the importance of continuous monitoring for optimal database health.Introduction Databases are the silent workhorses powering everything from online shopping to critical business operations. Just like a high-performance car needs a finely tuned engine, a production database server relies on a delicate balance of computing resources to deliver optimal speed and reliability. When these resources are mismanaged or insufficient, the entire system can grind to a halt, leading to frustrated users and lost revenue. This article will delve into the core resources that impact database performance, including CPU, storage, storage throughput, IOPS, memory, disk queue depth, read/write IOPS, read/write latency, and disk swapping. It will explain their roles, how they affect database operations, and provide practical strategies for tuning them.

Dashboards Are Dead Weight Without Context: Why BI Needs More Than Visuals

Aggregated on: 2025-07-15 18:14:21

Every BI engineer has been there. You spend weeks crafting the perfect dashboard, KPIs are front and center, filters are flexible, and visuals are clean enough to present to the board. But months later, you discover that no one is actually using it. Not because it’s broken, but because it doesn’t drive action. This isn’t an isolated issue, it’s a systemic one. Somewhere between clean datasets and elegant dashboards, the *why* behind the data gets lost. Business Intelligence, in its current form, often stops at the surface: build reports, refresh data, and move on. But visuals aren’t enough. What matters is decision utility, the actual ability of a data asset to influence strategy, fix problems, or trigger workflows.

Migrating SQL Failover Clusters Without Downtime: A Practical Guide

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When your SQL Server failover cluster is running on aging hardware or an older OS, migrating to something modern without breaking production can feel intimidating. I've been there. Our team had to move a live SQL cluster to new servers running Windows Server 2022, backed by an HPE SAN, all while keeping the apps that depended on it happy and uninterrupted. Here's exactly how we pulled it off and what we learned along the way. SQL downtime isn't just a minor disruption in many businesses, it's a full-on blocker. Reporting pipelines fail. ERP systems lock up. Even simple user-facing portals might end up in black hole. We couldn’t afford that kind of ripple effect, which is why this migration had to be seamless.

Analysis of the Data Processing Framework of Pandas and Snowpark Pandas API

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This article explains the process of how to migrate existing Pandas Workflows to Snowpark Pandas API, allowing for efficient scaling up of data processing needs without needing a full code rewrite. It is a pretty much lift and shift approach to have the data processing workflows up and running in minimal time and in a highly secure environment. Prerequisites Expertise in Python Scripting of versions 3.8 and up Knowledge of basic and complex SQL for scripting Snowflake Account Snowflake Warehouse Usage permissions AWS S3/Cloud External Stage and Access Integration Introduction Pandas has been the go-to library for data manipulation and analysis. As datasets grow in volume and variety, the traditional Pandas can have implications with memory limitations and performance bottlenecks. Snowpark Pandas API — a promising tool that brings the power of distributed computing to the Pandas API, within the secure environment of Snowflake.

How to Build a Real API Gateway With Spring Cloud Gateway and Eureka

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API gateways are essential in a microservices architecture. But building one that's real-world-ready, secure, scalable, and service-aware will require more than just wiring a few annotations.

The Architecture That Keeps Netflix and Slack Always Online

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Takeaways Cell-based architecture provides fault tolerance by breaking down the system into distinct, self-contained, independent cells that scale, perform function, and fail independently. These independent units minimize blast radius and allow for fast recovery, making them a best fit for high-availability setups where uptime is critical. Containers, and Docker specifically, facilitate standardized deployment and management of isolated cells across different environments and cloud zones. This style of architecture supports independent teams, faster deployment frequencies, and availability in many different domains of failures. The pattern does add system complexity, yet it creates more resilience in operations when routing, visibility, and rollbacks are well implemented. Introduction: Why Resilience Is Architectural In the cloud infrastructure of the modern era, you cannot append resilience. It must be integrated into the very infrastructure of the system. When applications scale to tens of millions of users and across multiple world regions, the long-standing assumptions of high availability fail under the weight. Even with multi-AZ deployment, replication, and autoscaling, the systems will be brittle and prone to correlated failures. They are not just technical errors. They are system-wide failures that cascade through monolithic deployments, centralized control planes, and tightly coupled microservices. A malfunctioning process in one region will cause a chain effect, flooding shared services, taking down dependency nodes, and blurring observability pipelines.

Advanced SSL Certificate Troubleshooting for Windows: Chain of Trust, Debugging, and Best Practices

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SSL/TLS certificates are foundational to secure communications on the internet. However, Windows environments present unique challenges that go beyond basic certificate installation and troubleshooting. If you’re already familiar with SSL fundamentals, you’ll want to know how to handle complex certificate chain issues, trust store discrepancies, and advanced debugging scenarios. This article builds on the foundational knowledge discussed in my previously published article, Troubleshooting SSL: Why Your SSL Certificate Isn’t Working on Windows, and expands on the chain of trust concepts detailed in another article, Chain of Trust: Decoding SSL Certificate Security Architecture. Here, we dive deeper into enterprise-grade troubleshooting, real-world examples, and robust best practices for Windows administrators, developers, and security professionals.

API Standards ARE Data Standards

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Aside from those who have ignored technology trends for the last twenty years, everyone else is aware of — and likely working with — service-based architectures, whether micro, domain-driven, modulith, integration, data, or something else. From service-based, we’ve evolved to API-First, where APIs are first-class deliverables around which all solutions are built: front-end, back-end, mobile, external integrations, whatever. The APIs are intended to be implemented before other development work starts, even if the initial implementation is stubbed out, dummy code that allows other work to begin. API-First revolves around the contract. “Amelia in Code” by donnierayjones is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Memory Leak Due To Mutable Keys in Java Collections

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Java Collections components (such as Map, List, Set) are widely used in our applications. When their keys are not properly handled, it will result in a memory leak. In this post, let’s discuss how incorrectly handled HashMap key results in OutOfMemoryError. We will also discuss how to diagnose such problems effectively and fix them. HashMap Memory Leak Below is a sample program that simulates a memory leak in a HashMap due to a mutated key:

Designing Configuration-Driven Apache Spark SQL ETL Jobs with Delta Lake CDC

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Modern data pipelines demand flexibility, maintainability, and efficient incremental processing. Hardcoding transformations into Spark applications leads to technical debt and brittle pipelines. A configuration-driven approach separates business logic from execution, allowing easy changes, collaboration between developers and analysts, and promoting scalable ETL workflows. In this article, we'll explore how to build config-based Spark SQL ETL jobs that integrate Delta Lake Change Data Capture (CDC) for efficient upserts.

Testing Distributed Microservices Using XState

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Distributed microservice architectures bring scalability and modularity, but they also introduce complexity—especially when it comes to testing service orchestration. Coordinating multiple services with asynchronous dependencies, retries, and failure scenarios often leads to fragile or incomplete test coverage. XState, a JavaScript and TypeScript library for finite state machines and statecharts, offers a powerful solution for modeling and testing these workflows. By representing your microservices orchestration as a state machine, you gain a single source of truth for expected behavior—and a way to simulate and validate it systematically.

Turn SQL into Conversation: Natural Language Database Queries With MCP

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A previous article [Resource 1] provided general insights regarding Model Context Protocol, more exactly, it outlined how MCP can act as an universal adapter that allows AI assistants to securely access external systems in order to bring in new context that is useful to the interacting LLMs. The current article continues this analysis and exemplifies how a dedicated MCP server that is able to access a database can enable LLMs to inspect them and offer their users useful pieces of information. Users on the other hand, are now given the opportunity to automatically obtain actual business insights inferred directly from the existing data by using just the natural language.

Building Resilient Go Apps: Mocking and Testing Database Error Responses

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When building applications that rely on databases (which is almost every application, right?), one of the biggest challenges developers face is testing how their code handles various error scenarios. What happens when the database returns a HTTP 400 error? How does your application respond to throttling? Will your retry logic work as expected? These questions are crucial because, in production, errors are inevitable. This holds true for Azure Cosmos DB as well. The database's distributed nature means that errors can arise from various sources, including network issues (503 Service Unavailable), request timeouts (408 Request timeout), rate limits (429 Too many requests), and more. Therefore, robust error handling and testing are essential to maintain a reliable application that handles these gracefully rather than crashing or losing data.

Understanding Time Series Databases

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Organizations now generate extensive amounts of time-stamped data through IoT devices as well as financial markets and application logs in the present data-driven world. Time series databases function as dedicated solutions that optimize the storage, analysis, and processing of temporal data. This article examines the essential principles of time series databases while examining their distinctive traits and evaluating their performance against standard database management systems. What Is Time Series Data? Time series data represents tracked and monitored data points that get downscaled and aggregated throughout a chronological period. A time series contains data points where each entry has its corresponding timestamp, which determines the sequence of events. Such data exists extensively throughout our digital world and manifests as:

Vibe Coding: Conversational Software Development - Part 2 In Practice

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In my previous blog post, I introduced the concept of vibe coding. It is one of the new ways that is attracting even non-programmers. Users can describe their thoughts using natural language, and AI tools can convert that into a working application. Spotting this opportunity, I thought I should experiment and understand what that actually looks like in action. I took this opportunity to test out a few tools and see how they really impact my workflow. Vibe coding is a declarative approach

The 7 Biggest Cloud Misconfigurations That Hackers Love (and How to Fix Them)

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Look, I've been in cybersecurity for over a decade, and I'm tired of seeing the same preventable disasters over and over again. Cloud security breaches aren't happening because of some sophisticated nation-state actor using a zero-day exploit. They're happening because someone forgot to flip a switch or left a door unlocked. The numbers are frankly depressing. According to Verizon's latest Data Breach Investigations Report, misconfiguration errors account for more than 65% of all cloud-related security incidents. IBM puts the average cost of a misconfiguration-related breach at $4.88 million. But here's what really gets me — these aren't just statistics. Behind every one of these numbers is a real company that had to explain to its customers why their personal data was sitting on the internet for anyone to grab.

Cloud Hardware Diagnostics for AI Workloads

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With the recent boom in AI, the footprint of AI workloads and AI-supported hardware servers deployed in cloud data centers has grown exponentially. This growth is spread across multiple regions worldwide over various data centers. To support this growth and to ensure leadership over various cloud competitors (like Azure, AWS, and GCP), they have started building a fleet of specialized high-performance computing servers. The AI workloads that perform a huge amount of data processing, training, and inference of data models require a special kind of hardware, unlike traditional general-purpose compute servers. Hence, all cloud service providers are investing heavily in GPU, TPU, and NPU-based servers that are effective in hosting AI workloads. The majority of these servers are of the Buy Model type, and cloud service providers are dependent on the ‘Other Equipment Manufacturer’ (OEM) for diagnostics and maintenance of the hardware. This dependency has caused a lot of pain for cloud service providers as the repair SLAs are uncertain and expensive, impacting the fleet's availability.

AI-Powered Ransomware and Malware Detection in Cloud Environments

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Cloud platforms have become prime targets for ransomware and malware attacks, which can paralyze businesses by encrypting data or exfiltrating sensitive information. Traditional security tools such as signature-based antivirus and rule-based systems often struggle to detect advanced threats that mutate or exploit unknown vulnerabilities. Organizations are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to bolster cloud defenses. These models can analyze massive volumes of cloud logs and network traffic, spot subtle anomalies, and detect known malware and zero-day attacks in real time. This article reviews the leading AI models for cloud malware detection, outlines technical challenges, and explores cutting-edge innovations shaping AI-powered cybersecurity's future.

My Dive into Local LLMs, Part 2: Taming Personal Finance with Homegrown AI (and Why Privacy Matters)

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Key Takeaways: Transform your local LLM setup into a practical personal finance analyzer Build a privacy-first solution that keeps sensitive financial data on your machine Learn batch processing strategies for handling large transaction datasets Get working code to create your own AI financial assistant Prerequisites Completed setup from Part 1 (Ollama installed, GPU configured) Basic Python knowledge Ubuntu/Linux system with NVIDIA GPU (8GB+ VRAM) A healthy paranoia about cloud services handling your financial data If you read my last article, "My Dive into Local LLMs, Part 1: From Alexa Curiosity to Homegrown AI," you know I've been on a bit of a journey, diving headfirst into the world of local Large Language Models (LLMs) on my trusty Ubuntu machine. That initial curiosity, spurred by my work on the Alexa team, quickly turned into a fascination with the raw power and flexibility of running AI right on your own hardware. But beyond the sheer "cool factor" of getting Llama 3 to hum on my GPU, I started thinking about practical applications – problems in my daily life where this homegrown AI could actually make a difference. That's when personal finance popped into my head. Now, before you mentally flag me for suggesting you feed your bank statements to an AI, hear me out. We're bombarded with cloud-based financial tools, and while convenient, they often come with a lingering question: Where exactly is my data going and what are they doing with it? For something as sensitive as personal finances, data privacy isn't just a buzzword; it's paramount. This is where the local LLM truly shines, offering a compelling alternative to cloud-dependent solutions.

How to Reduce Technical Debt With Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Technical debt covertly slows down business progress that builds up over time through rushed software development, outdated systems, and old tools. Companies find it difficult to grow, stay competitive, and keep up with new technology due to technical debt. In today’s digital landscape, wherein the majority of businesses rely on SaaS architecture, technical debt can significantly impact agility, scalability, and efficiency. Outdated software and systems don’t just slow down performance—they also stop companies from using smarter tools like predictive software. These tools can improve how teams work, spot issues before they happen, and even suggest better ways to run operations.

Server-Driven UI: Agile Interfaces Without App Releases

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Mobile development presents unique challenges in delivering new features and UI changes to users. We often find ourselves waiting on App Store or Play Store review cycles for even minor UI updates. Even after an update is approved, not all users install the latest version right away. This lag means some portion of our audience might be stuck on older UIs, leading to inconsistent user experiences across app versions. In traditional native development, any change to the interface — from a simple text tweak to a full layout overhaul — requires releasing a new app version. Combined with lengthy QA and release processes, this slows down our ability to respond to feedback or run timely experiments. Teams have explored workarounds to make apps more flexible. Some have tried loading portions of the UI in a web view, essentially embedding web pages in the app to avoid full releases. Cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Flutter reduce duplicated effort across iOS and Android, but they still package a fixed UI that requires redeployment for changes. In short, mobile UIs have historically been locked in code at build time. This rigidity clashes with the fast pace of modern product iterations. We need a way to change app interfaces on the fly — one that doesn’t sacrifice native performance or user experience. This is where server-driven UI (SDUI) enters the picture.

MongoDB Change Streams and Go

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Change streams allow you to subscribe to real-time updates in your MongoDB collections and databases. With the MongoDB Go Driver, you can tap into these streams and build reactive applications that respond to data changes in MongoDB instantly. You can build features like real-time notifications and collaborative apps or kick off different workflows based on changes to your data. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how you can work with MongoDB change streams when building Go applications. We’ll use the native MongoDB Go Driver and MongoDB Atlas to showcase various use cases that rely on change streams.

Beyond the Glass Slab: How AI Voice Assistants are Morphing Into Our Real-Life JARVIS

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Remember JARVIS? Tony Stark's ever-present, hyper-intelligent AI, seamlessly managing his life, his suits, and even his quips. For years, it felt like a distant sci-fi fantasy. But here's the thing—as someone who's been building the future of voice AI as a Software Development Manager on the Alexa team, I can tell you we're closer than you might think. If you're like me, constantly tapping and swiping your phone, you've probably caught yourself wondering: are we on the cusp of AI voice assistants becoming our JARVIS, so much so that they might just make our beloved mobile phones obsolete? It's a bold claim, I know. Our smartphones are basically extensions of ourselves at this point, right? Indispensable tools for communication, information, and let's face it—endless scrolling. But what if the next leap isn't just better smartphones, but something entirely different? I'm talking about a paradigm shift where the interface melts away, and truly intelligent, proactive AI becomes our primary digital companion.

When MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Argue: Doris JDBC Catalog Acts as the Peacemaker

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At noon, Xiao Wang was staring at his computer screen, looking worried. He is in charge of the company's data platform and recently received a task: to perform real-time analysis on data from three different databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

Secret Recipe of the Template Method: Po Learns the Art of Structured Cooking

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A grand gala was being held at the Jade Palace. The Furious Five were preparing, and Po was helping his father, Mr. Ping, in the kitchen. But as always, Po had questions. Po (curious): "Dad, how do you always make the perfect noodle soup no matter what the ingredients are?"

The Cybersecurity Blind Spot in DevOps Pipelines

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Speed kills. In software development, that axiom has never been more literal. DevOps pipelines surge through modern enterprises like digital bloodstreams — pumping code, configurations, and deployments at breakneck velocity. Continuous integration and continuous delivery are the promises of rapid iteration and market responsiveness that transformed how we build, test, and ship software. Yet beneath this technological marvel lurks a terrifying reality: every pipeline becomes a potential superhighway for cybercriminals.

Scaling Multi-Tenant Go Apps: Choosing the Right Database Partitioning Approach

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Consider the typical scenario where your platform serves both enterprise clients with hundreds of thousands of users, as well as small businesses with just a handful. With traditional database partitioning strategies, you are likely to run into these common issues: Partition imbalance: Large tenants create oversized partitions while small tenants waste allocated resources Hot partitions: High-activity tenants overwhelm individual database partitions, creating performance bottlenecks Inefficient queries: User-specific lookups require scanning entire tenant datasets Resource contention: Mixed workloads compete for the same database resources Azure Cosmos DB has been a go-to solution for multi-tenant applications due to its global distribution, automatic scaling, and flexible data models. Its partition-based architecture naturally aligns with tenant isolation requirements, making it attractive for SaaS platforms, IoT applications, and content management systems.

Indexed Views in SQL Server: A Production DBA's Complete Guide

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After fifteen years of wrestling with SQL Server performance challenges in production environments, I can confidently say that indexed views remain one of the most underutilized yet powerful features for optimizing query performance. Introduced in SQL Server 2000 and significantly enhanced in subsequent versions, indexed views (also known as materialized views) allow you to physically store the result set of a view on disk with a clustered index, dramatically improving query performance for complex aggregations and joins.

Testing the MongoDB MCP Server Using SingleStore Kai

Aggregated on: 2025-07-11 11:11:47

MongoDB recently announced the release of an official MCP Server. At the time of writing this article, the release version was shown as 0.1.0. In this article, we'll test this early release version against SingleStore Kai, a MongoDB-compatible API developed by SingleStore, designed to enable applications built for MongoDB to run on SingleStore with minimal changes. We'll configure and test the MongoDB MCP Server using a freely available tool called MCPHost. The notebook file used in this article is available on GitHub.

Modernize Your IAM Into Identity Fabric Powered by Connectors

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It’s no secret that technology is evolving much faster than our traditional Identity and Access Management systems can handle. These legacy systems were designed for simpler times, when everything was hosted locally and security was perimeter-based. So, in an era where most enterprises, if not all, are moving their workloads to hybrid, multi-cloud, and AI-driven environments, these outdated IAM systems are being pushed to their breaking points. Quite frankly, they aren’t doing so well.

Contract-Driven ML: The Missing Link to Trustworthy Machine Learning

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In the age of machine learning and AI-driven decision-making, model accuracy is often touted as the holy grail. Teams boast of hitting 95%+ F1 scores or outshining baselines by double digits. However, high accuracy in development environments means very little if the model is fed garbage in production. That’s where data contracts come in: the unsung hero of reliable, scalable machine learning systems. Without robust data quality, schema validation, and pipeline reliability, even the most accurate model is nothing more than a fragile sandbox experiment. In this article, we’ll explore the critical role of data contracts in ML systems, why accuracy metrics can be deceptive, and how enforcing contracts can save your models from silent failure in production.

Decoding the Secret Language of LLM Tokenizers

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LLMs may speak in words, but under the hood they think in tokens: compact numeric IDs representing character sequences. If you grasp why tokens exist, how they are formed, and where the real-world costs arise, you can trim your invoices, slash latency, and squeeze higher throughput from any model, whether you rent a commercial endpoint or serve one in-house. Why LLMs Don’t Generate Text One Character at a Time Imagine predicting “language” character by character. When decoding the very last “e,” the network must still replay the entire hidden state for the preceding seven characters. Multiply that overhead by thousands of characters in a long prompt and you get eye-watering compute.

Master AI Development: The Ultimate Guide to LangChain, LangGraph, LangFlow, and LangSmith

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Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Llama 3 have become essential for creating powerful applications. However, building these applications involves challenges such as managing prompts, integrating external data, maintaining context, and ensuring scalability. The LangChain ecosystem, including LangChain, LangGraph, LangFlow, and LangSmith, addresses these challenges at different stages of the development lifecycle. This article explores each tool, their differences, and when to use them, enhanced with diagrams.

When Caches Collide: Solving Race Conditions in Fare Updates

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Distributed flight-pricing systems rely on layered caches to balance low latency and fresh data. In practice, caches often use short TTLs (minutes to hours) supplemented by event-driven invalidation. However, concurrent cache writes – for example when multiple instances update fares simultaneously – can trigger subtle race conditions. These manifest as stale or inconsistent prices, duplicate cache entries, or "split-brain" behavior across regions. To diagnose and prevent these issues, experienced teams use end-to-end observability and proven patterns. In particular, embedding correlation IDs in every log and trace, combined with Datadog's metrics/trace/log stack, lets engineers pinpoint exactly where a fare-update went wrong. The key is to instrument cache operations thoroughly (hits, misses, writes, expirations) and watch for anomalies in real telemetry such as cache hit rate or TTL variance. Observability: Traces, Logs, and Correlation IDs Every flight search or booking request should carry a unique transaction or correlation ID across services. In airline data standards, for example, a Correlation ID is a UUID included by the seller and echoed by the airline to link related messages. In modern systems, that ID is logged by each microservice and also attached to traces. Datadog recommends injecting trace/span IDs and env/service/version into structured logs so that logs and traces automatically correlate. With this in place, an engineer can query "show me all logs for request X" and see cache lookups, price calculations, rule-engine calls, etc. in one timeline. This end-to-end view is critical for spotting race conditions: for instance, two cache-write spans with the same timestamp but different data hints at a write-write conflict. Teams should also set up Datadog alerts on slow cache write latencies or abnormal request paths. For example, if a cache refresh suddenly takes much longer than usual (as seen in traces), that can indicate contention or serialization issues.