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How Docker Desktop Enhances Developer Workflows and Observability

Aggregated on: 2025-06-19 12:13:20

Docker made it easier to build, ship, and run applications consistently using lightweight containers. While Docker Engine handles the core functionality, Docker Desktop brings those capabilities into a more accessible environment for everyday development tasks. Though it may not attract as much attention as container orchestration tools or microservices frameworks, Docker Desktop serves a practical purpose in local development. It offers a straightforward interface for managing containers directly on a developer’s machine.

TIOBE Index for June 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages

Aggregated on: 2025-06-19 11:58:20

SQL has dropped to its lowest position in the history of the TIOBE Programming Community Index, according to the June leaderboard. Between May and June, SQL lost its place in the top 10, descending to 12th place. This created space for Fortran, the classic but still useful programming language that has moved in and out of the top 10 over the last year. Fortran took the opportunity to take 10th place.

How to Add a Jenkins Agent With Docker Compose

Aggregated on: 2025-06-19 11:13:19

In the previous article on installing Jenkins with Docker Compose, we learned how to install and set up Jenkins using Docker Compose. It is now time to learn how to add a Jenkins agent using Docker Compose. With the installation of Jenkins using Docker Compose, we are familiar with Docker Compose and its related file contents. Before we talk about adding the Jenkins agent using Docker Compose, let’s first understand what Jenkins agents are and what they are used for.

TIOBE Programming Index News June 2025: SQL Falls to Record Low Popularity

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 20:58:16

The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest position since the rankings began in 2001. Although SQL remains a critical language for working with databases, the increased use of NoSQL databases for AI applications has begun to take its market share. The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows trends in programming languages based on search engine volume.

Top Trends for Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 20:13:16

The evolution of data streaming has transformed modern business infrastructure, establishing real-time data processing as a critical asset across industries. At the forefront of this transformation, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink stand out as leading open-source frameworks that serve as the foundation for cloud services, enabling organizations to unlock the potential of real-time data. Over recent years, trends have shifted from batch-based data processing to real-time analytics, scalable cloud-native architectures, and improved data governance powered by these technologies. Looking ahead, the data streaming ecosystem is set to undergo even greater changes. Here are the top trends shaping the future of data streaming for businesses. The Top Data Streaming Trends I recently explored the past, present, and future of data streaming tools and strategies from the past decades. Data streaming is becoming more and more mature and standardized, but also innovative.

A New Era of Unified Lakehouse: Who Will Reign? A Deep Dive into Apache Doris vs. ClickHouse

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 19:28:16

With the explosive growth of data, the demand for real-time analytics across industries is more urgent than ever. High-performance data warehouses are the backbone of real-time analysis, enabling enterprises to quickly gain insights and drive decision-making. Among many open-source solutions, Apache Doris and ClickHouse stand out as two of the most noteworthy contenders. This article provides an in-depth comparison between Apache Doris and ClickHouse, aiming to offer valuable insights for technical professionals and decision-makers when selecting real-time analytics solutions. Apache Doris Apache Doris is a modern open-source data warehouse based on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, renowned for its exceptionally high query performance. Designed to provide sub-second query responses, Doris can effortlessly handle both high-concurrency point queries and complex, high-throughput analytical workloads. Its architecture consists of two main components: the Frontend (FE) and the Backend (BE). The FE handles user requests, query parsing, metadata management, and node management, while the BE is responsible for data storage and query execution—with data partitioned and stored in multiple replicas across different nodes. This design supports horizontal scaling, allowing a single Doris cluster to manage hundreds of machines and petabytes of data, all while supporting compute-storage separation for elastic scaling and efficient resource utilization.

How to Master a DevSecOps Pipeline that Devs and AppSec Love

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 18:28:16

When you became a developer, you didn’t imagine you’d be spending a big chunk of your time parsing vulnerability reports, getting stuck in security review cycles, or rerunning CI jobs because the pipeline flagged a dozen “critical issues,” half of which are false positives. You didn’t sign up for this. You weren’t even given a choice, but here you are:

It’s Not Magic. It’s AI. And It’s Brilliant.

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 17:28:16

A few weeks ago, I floated a Google Form with a simple, almost laughable question: "Post your silliest AI-related doubts, as silly as: What even is AI?"

SBOM Essentials

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 16:43:16

As organizations rely more on open-source and third-party components, software supply chain security has become more crucial than ever before. Software bills of materials (SBOMs) are a practical solution for gaining visibility into software components, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring license compliance. This Refcard covers the essential elements of SBOMs, their key formats, open-source tools for automating SBOM generation and attestation, and how to integrate SBOMs into development workflows.

The Shift of DevOps From Automation to Intelligence

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 16:13:16

When you think about human evolution, it's astonishing how far we have come. From hunters and gatherers to a world where we can now order food with a tap, get one-day delivery, and call a taxi instantly. Part of the story here is how cognitive evolution led to the invention of tools and technology that transformed the way we live today. As humans evolved, Technology has evolved through different eras as well, each redefining what engineers build and how they build it. From the first personal computing experiments at Xerox PARC in the 1970s to today’s wave of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the pace of innovation has continually reshaped software engineering practices. By the 1980s, foundational protocols for global connectivity emerged. On January 1, 1983, the ARPANET permanently switched to the TCP/IP protocol suite, marking the moment TCP/IP became the standard for internetworking. This gave birth to the modern Internet.

Secure DevOps in Serverless Architecture

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 15:13:16

Serverless computing, app development, and deployment have been completely revolutionized by its unparalleled scalability and cost efficiency. Infrastructure management abstraction, which is provided by serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions, allows developers to concentrate on building their functionality while the cloud provider takes care of scaling, patching, and maintenance. However, as you might imagine, with something as convenient as this, there are unique security challenges introduced, especially for event-driven workflows where triggers and integrations run rampant at creating complex attack surfaces.

Building Scalable and Resilient UI/UX With Angular and Node.js

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 14:13:16

In large-scale applications, the synergy of a robust frontend and a high-performance backend is essential. By leveraging Angular for rich, maintainable UIs and Node.js (often with frameworks like Express or NestJS) on the backend, teams can ensure both high throughput and responsive user experiences. Modern SPAs (Single-Page Applications) by default offload much rendering to the browser, which can slow initial load and SEO. Therefore, tech leaders increasingly adopt hybrid rendering strategies – for example, using Angular Universal for server-side rendering (SSR) – to pre-render pages on Node.js servers. This approach boosts Core Web Vitals (e.g. FCP, LCP) by delivering HTML content to the browser immediately. In turn, heavy client-side JavaScript can “hydrate” that HTML into a fully interactive app. Careful choice of rendering model (CSR vs SSR vs SSG vs ISR) is a foundational performance strategy. A typical Single-Page Application (SPA) rendering flow.

Why Whole-Document Sentiment Analysis Fails and How Section-Level Scoring Fixes It

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 13:13:16

Have you ever tried to analyze the sentiment of a long-form document like a financial report, technical whitepaper or regulatory filing? You probably noticed that the sentiment score often feels way off. That’s because most sentiment analysis tools return a single, aggregated sentiment score—usually positive, negative, or neutral—for the entire document. This approach completely misses the complexity and nuance embedded in long-form content. I encountered this challenge while analyzing annual reports in the finance industry. These documents are rarely uniform in tone. The CEO’s message may sound upbeat, while the “Risk Factors” section could be steeped in caution. A single sentiment score doesn’t do justice to this mix.

Debunking LLM Intelligence: What's Really Happening Under the Hood?

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 12:13:16

Large language models (LLMs) possess an impressive ability to generate text, poetry, code, and even hold complex conversations. Yet, a fundamental question arises: do these systems truly understand what they are saying, or do they merely imitate a form of thought? Is it a simple illusion, an elaborate statistical performance, or are LLMs developing a form of understanding, or even reasoning? This question is at the heart of current debates on artificial intelligence. On one hand, the achievements of LLMs are undeniable: they can translate languages, summarize articles, draft emails, and even answer complex questions with surprising accuracy. This ability to manipulate language with such ease could suggest genuine understanding.

From OCR Bottlenecks to Structured Understanding

Aggregated on: 2025-06-18 11:13:16

Abstract When we talk about making AI systems better at finding and using information from documents, we often focus on fancy algorithms and cutting-edge language models. But here's the thing: if your text extraction is garbage, everything else falls apart. This paper looks at how OCR quality impacts retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, particularly when dealing with scanned documents and PDFs. We explore the cascading effects of OCR errors through the RAG pipeline and present a modern solution using SmolDocling, an ultra-compact vision-language model that processes documents end-to-end. The recent OHRBench study (Zhang et al., 2024) provides compelling evidence that even modern OCR solutions struggle with real-world documents. We demonstrate how SmolDocling (Nassar et al., 2025), with just 256M parameters, offers a practical path forward by understanding documents holistically rather than character-by-character, outputting structured data that dramatically improves downstream RAG performance.

Effective Exception Handling in Java and Spring Boot Applications

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 20:13:15

When you're building Java applications, especially with frameworks like Spring Boot, it’s easy to overlook proper exception handling. However, poorly managed exceptions can make your application harder to debug, more difficult to maintain, and a nightmare for anyone dealing with production issues. In this post, we’ll explore how to handle exceptions effectively by avoiding generic catch blocks, using custom exceptions, and centralizing exception handling with Spring Boot’s @ControllerAdvice.

Understanding the 5 Levels of LeetCode to Crack Coding Interview

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 19:13:15

There are five levels of LeetCode, and most people are stuck at levels one and two. Many of you can solve LeetCode problems but still cannot get a job. Why is that? Whether you like it or not, coding interviews are a competition. There are other people who are interviewing for the exact same position as you. At the end of the day, it's all about what your level is compared to them.

Apache Doris and DeepSeek: Redefining Intelligent Data Analytics

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 18:13:15

Apache Doris, a high-performance real-time data warehouse, has been gaining significant attention in the OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) space in recent years. With its strong query performance, real-time data processing capabilities, and flexible data models, it is widely used in scenarios such as business intelligence, user behavior analysis, and real-time monitoring. The rise of DeepSeek, on the other hand, has injected new vitality into data analysis. Through DeepSeek’s natural language processing capabilities, users can directly query data using everyday language, greatly reducing the threshold for data analysis.

Elevating LLMs With Tool Use: A Simple Agentic Framework Using LangChain

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 17:13:15

Large Language Models (LLMs) are significantly changing the way we interact with data and generate insights. But their real superpower lies in the ability to connect with external tools. Tool calling turns LLMs into agents capable of browsing the web, querying databases, and generating content — all from a simple natural language prompt. In this article, we go one step beyond single-tool agents and show how to build a multi-tool LangChain agent. We’ll walk through a use case where the agent:

A Decade of Transformation: The Evolution of Web Development

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 16:28:15

Over the past decade, web development has undergone a silent revolution, quietly reshaping the digital world landscape. The browser compatibility issues that once kept developers awake at night have become relics of the past, thanks to the wave of standardization led by Chrome. The era of jQuery, characterized by its rudimentary approach, has long been illuminated by component-based frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular, making complex interactions as effortless as building with blocks. We have witnessed the transformation of front-end development into the core engine driving trillion-dollar applications, extending the boundaries of code from the browser to the realms of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence in a symphony of cloud and microservices. In this article, I will explore this transformation from various dimensions, inviting you to witness its greatness together. Conditions Driving the Transformation of Web Development The changes in web development are not singular; they are intertwined with historical contexts and the evolution of the internet. To understand the transformation of web development, we must also grasp the reasons and environments that drive these changes, and which factors are closely related to this change.

Build Your Private Cloud at Home

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 15:28:15

OpenStack is a popular open-source cloud platform. Through this article, I plan to provide a guide for creating a basic OpenStack cloud at home! The OpenStack cloud nodes can be generally divided into two categories:

Kung Fu Commands: Shifu Teaches Po the Command Pattern with Java Functional Interfaces

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 14:13:15

Po was supposed to be practicing the Dragon Scrolls. Instead, he was… well, eating. Shifu (arms crossed): "Po! Again? Training time, not dumpling time."

How to Achieve SOC 2 Compliance in AWS Cloud Environments

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 13:13:15

Did you know cloud security was one of the most evident challenges of using cloud solutions in 2023? As businesses increasingly depend on Cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications, securing sensitive data in the Cloud becomes non-negotiable. Organizations must ensure their technology infrastructure meets the highest security standards. One such standard is SOC 2 (Systems and Organization Controls 2) compliance.

AI's Cognitive Cost: How Over-Reliance on AI Tools Impacts Critical Thinking

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 12:13:15

Tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) are improving our learning, working, and decision-making processes. There is a cost involved in this change, though. With an eye toward cognitive offloading—the process by which we assign mental tasks to outside aids like digital assistants, search engines, or recommendation systems. In this article, I examine a 2025 study by Michael Gerlich. It provides a thorough and sophisticated investigation into how artificial intelligence tools influence critical thinking. The study offers a data-rich perspective on a rising issue: depending more on AI to think for us reduces our own cognitive capacity.

Driving Streaming Intelligence On-Premises: Real-Time ML With Apache Kafka and Flink

Aggregated on: 2025-06-17 11:13:15

Lately, companies, in their efforts to engage in real-time decision-making by exploiting big data, have been inclined to find a suitable architecture for this data as quickly as possible. With many companies, including SaaS users, choosing to deploy their own infrastructures entirely on their own, the combination of Apache Flink and Kafka offers low-latency data pipelines that are built for complete reliability. Particularly due to the financial and technical constraints it brings, small and medium-sized enterprises often have a number of challenges to overcome when using cloud service providers. One major issue is the complexity of cloud pricing models, which can lead to unexpected costs and budget overruns. This article explores how to design, build, and deploy a predictive machine learning (ML) model using Flink and Kafka in an on-premises environment to power real-time analytics.

Why 99% Accuracy Isn't Good Enough: The Reality of ML Malware Detection

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 20:13:15

The threat of malware in enterprises is evolving each year. As enterprises expand their digital footprint through remote work and cloud adoption, their attack surface increases, making them more vulnerable to targeted malware campaigns. FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report showed that Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams alone caused over USD 2.9 billion in losses. Investment fraud losses also rose by 38% to USD 4.57 billion, and ransomware caused USD 59.6 million in losses. Other reports paint similarly bleak pictures of the state of enterprise security today. The 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report shows that the average cost of a data breach jumped 10% to USD 4.88 million. It also shows that organizations using AI in incident prevention saved USD 2.2 million on average. More than half of breached organizations are experiencing severe security staffing shortages, a 26.2% increase from last year. AI tools can help fill the gap.

Before You Microservice Everything, Read This

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 19:13:15

The way we build software systems is always evolving, and right now, everyone's talking about microservices. They've become popular because of cloud computing, containerization, and tools like Kubernetes. Lots of new projects use this approach, and even older systems are trying to switch over. But this discussion is about something else: the modular monolith, especially in comparison to microservices. But, why focus on this?

Scrum Smarter, Not Louder: AI Prompts Every Developer Should Steal

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 18:13:15

Most developers think AI’s only job is writing code, debugging tests, or generating documentation. But Scrum? That’s still a human mess, full of vague stories, chaotic meetings, and awkward silences. Here’s the truth: prompt engineering can turn AI into your secret Agile assistant—if you know how to talk to it. In this guide, we share field-tested, research-backed prompts that developers can use in real time to make Agile rituals smoother, smarter, and actually useful. Based on findings from Alamu et al. (2024), Verma et al. (2025), and Mitra & Lewis (2025), we show how prompt structures can turn your next standup, sprint planning, or retro into something that works for you, not just for your Scrum Master.

How to Use Testcontainers With ScyllaDB

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 17:13:15

Setting up a full database environment for every round of integration testing can be time-consuming and complex. This post walks through how to use the Testcontainers library to spin up lightweight, throwaway ScyllaDB instances for testing purposes. We’ll explore a practical example that covers initializing the database and running tests against it. Testcontainers: A Tool for Integration Testing You automatically unit test your code and (hopefully) integration test your system…but what about your database? To ensure that the application works as expected, you need to extend beyond unit testing. You also need to automatically test how the units interact with one another and how they interact with external services and systems (message brokers, data stores, and so on). But running those integration tests requires the infrastructure to be configured correctly, with all the components set to the proper state. You also need to confirm that the tests are isolated and don’t produce any side effects or “test pollution.” How do you reduce the pain…and get it all running in your CI/CD process?

Safeguarding Cloud Databases: Best Practices and Risks Engineers Must Avoid

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 16:13:15

As enterprises increasingly adopt digital transformation strategies, the cloud has emerged as a foundational component of modern IT infrastructure. Organizations are rapidly shifting workloads, including critical databases, to cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to harness benefits like on-demand scalability, high availability, and reduced operational overhead. Cloud-based databases, in particular, have revolutionized how businesses store, access, and manage data, offering improved performance and flexibility across industries. However, while the shift to cloud-native databases brings significant advantages, it also introduces a complex set of security challenges. In traditional on-premises environments, organizations manage and secure their own hardware and network boundaries. In the cloud, however, security follows a shared responsibility model where both the provider and the customer play a role in protecting systems and data. This model holds both cloud providers and their customers accountable for different aspects of system and data security. Failure to clearly define and act upon these responsibilities can expose organizations to serious data breaches, compliance failures, and reputational harm.

AI Agents in PHP with Model Context Protocol

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 15:28:15

If you are building AI agents you’ve probably heard about MCP (Model Context Protocol). Actually, really everyone is talking about MCP right now. From what I’ve read online, it seems many people don’t seem to have the slightest idea what we’re talking about, and the new product development opportunities associated with that. I want to break down a couple of key concepts to help establish the foundational understanding you might need as a software developer exploring new ideas for agent implementations. This will also help clarify the role of MCP servers when directly connected to an AI agent, such as a Neuron AI Agent, as one example.

Monitoring and Managing the Growth of the MSDB System Database in SQL Server

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 14:13:15

In SQL Server environments, system databases play crucial roles in ensuring smooth and reliable database operations. Among these, the msdb database is critical as it handles a variety of operational tasks, including job scheduling via SQL Server Agent, alert management, database mail configuration, and backup and restore history tracking. These functions are essential for automating routine maintenance, monitoring system health, and managing administrative workflows. However, the msdb database can sometimes grow unexpectedly large, especially in busy or long-running environments. This growth, if left unchecked, can lead to performance degradation, longer response times for job execution, and potential issues with SQL Server Agent functionality. Therefore, understanding how to monitor and manage the size of the msdb database is critical for database administrators aiming to maintain optimal SQL Server performance.

Mastering Kubernetes Observability: Boost Performance, Security, and Stability With Tracestore, OPA, Flagger, and Custom Metrics

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 13:13:15

In modern microservices architectures, achieving comprehensive observability is not just an option—it's a necessity. As applications scale dynamically within Kubernetes environments, tracking performance issues, enforcing security policies, and ensuring smooth deployments become complex challenges. Traditional monitoring solutions alone cannot fully address these challenges. This guide explores four powerful tools that significantly improve observability and control in microservices environments:

Code of Shadows: Master Shifu and Po Use Functional Java to Solve the Decorator Pattern Mystery

Aggregated on: 2025-06-16 12:13:15

It was a cold, misty morning at the Jade Palace. The silence was broken not by combat… but by a mysterious glitch in the logs. Po (rushing in): "Shifu! The logs… they're missing timestamps!"

Create POM With LLM (GitHub Copilot) and Playwright MCP

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 21:13:13

Test automation is a critical part of modern software development, but maintaining test scripts for dynamic web applications can be a challenge. The Page Object Model (POM) is a proven design pattern that makes test suites maintainable and scalable. When paired with GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant, and Playwright’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), you can supercharge your automation workflow with intelligent code generation and seamless tool integration. In this blog, we’ll walk through how to create a POM-based test automation framework using Playwright, leverage GitHub Copilot to write and optimize code, and integrate Playwright MCP to enable AI-driven browser interactions. Whether you’re a QA engineer or a developer, this guide will help you build a robust, AI-enhanced testing solution.

Smarter IoT Systems With Edge Computing and AI

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 20:13:13

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer just about connectivity. Today, IoT systems are becoming intelligent ecosystems that make real-time decisions. The convergence of edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is driving this transformation, meaning that IoT devices can now locally process their own data, then act autonomously. This revolutionizes industries, from healthcare and agriculture to smart cities and autonomous vehicles. When Edge Computing Meets AI Traditional IoT has a central cloud architecture used for data processing and analysis. While effective, this model struggles to meet the demands of real-time applications due to:

Want to Become a Senior Software Engineer? Do These Things

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 19:13:13

In my experience working with and leading software engineers, I have seen mid-level Engineers produce outcomes worthy of a Senior, and seniors who are only so in title. High-performing mid-levels eventually overtook under-performing seniors. How you become a Senior Software Engineer is important. If you become a Senior because you're the last man standing or the one with the longest tenure. I am afraid that future upward movement may be challenging. Especially, if you decide to go elsewhere. I have been fortunate to directly mentor a couple of engineers to become Senior, and witness the journey of others.

AI Agent Architectures: Patterns, Applications, and Implementation Guide

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 18:13:13

Architecture is something I am very much interested in. As I was exploring AI agents, I was curious to understand the agentic architectures. That led me to this awesome resource, The 2025 Guide to AI Agents, published by IBM on their Think page. One of the sections of the guide is around architecture. The architecture section explains that agentic architecture refers to the design and structure enabling AI agents to automate workflows, reason through tasks, and utilize tools to achieve their objectives. This architecture is built to support autonomous, goal-driven behavior by allowing agents to perceive their environment, process information, and act independently within defined rules and constraints.

Understanding the Fundamentals of Cryptography

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 17:13:13

Cybersecurity encompasses multiple different domains, including network isolation, platform security and infrastructure security. However, one thing that we less frequently discuss, but use more than often is cryptography. Whether it’s HTTPS, data encryption in databases, disk encryption, or technologies like VPNs and blockchains, cryptography is one of the fundamental building blocks. As part of this article, lets try to decipher the cryptography concept. First and Foremost, What Is Cryptography? Simply put, it is the method of protecting information so that only intended people can read or access it. To better understand the definition let's consider a simple example.

Understanding the Circuit Breaker: A Key Design Pattern for Resilient Systems

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 16:13:14

Reliability is critical, specifically, when services are interconnected, and failures in one component can lead to cascading effect on other services. The Circuit Breaker Pattern is an important design pattern used to build fault tolerant and resilient systems. Particularly in microservices architecture. This article explains the fundamentals of the circuit breaker pattern, its benefits, and how to implement it to protect your systems from failure. What is the Circuit Breaker Pattern? The Circuit Breaker Pattern is actually inspired by electrical circuit breakers you see at your home, which is designed to prevent system failures by detecting faults and stopping the flow of electricity when problems occur. In software, this pattern monitors service interactions, preventing continuous calls/retries to a failing/failed service, which could overload the service with problem. by “Breaking” the circuit between services, this pattern allows a system to gracefully handle failures and avoid cascading problems.

When Incentives Sabotage Product Strategy

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 15:13:13

TL;DR: When Incentives Sabotage Product Strategy Learn why many Product Owners and Managers worry about the wrong thing: saying no instead of saying yes to everything. This article reveals three systematic rejection techniques that strengthen stakeholder relationships while protecting product strategy to avoid organizational incentives sabotaging product strategy. Discover how those drive feature demands, why AI prototyping complicates strategic decisions, and how transparent Anti-Product Backlog systems transform resistance into collaboration.

RAG vs. CAG: A Deep Dive into Context-Aware AI Generation Techniques

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 14:13:13

As artificial intelligence systems become core components of everything from enterprise workflows to everyday tools, one thing is becoming crystal clear: context matters. It's no longer enough for a model to simply string together grammatically correct sentences. To truly add value—whether as a legal assistant, an AI tutor, or a customer support bot—an AI system needs to deliver the right answer at the right time, grounded in real-world knowledge and tuned to the situation at hand. That’s where two key techniques come into play: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Context-Aware Generation (CAG). These two approaches offer different solutions to the same challenge: how to make large language models (LLMs) smarter, more reliable, and more useful.

Exploring the IBM App Connect Enterprise SELECT, ROW and THE Functions in ESQL

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 13:13:13

Let’s talk about SELECT in ESQL—and I don’t mean database queries (although they are somewhat similar). I mean using SELECT to slice and dice message data inside IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). Think of it like SQL, but for navigating the message tree instead of a table. This post is all about the different ways you can use SELECT in ACE: returning arrays, rows, or just that one perfect value. To clarify, I’ve built out a quick demo flow with a very simple message structure, grabbed the outputs, and broken it all down for you. We’ll look at:

Memory Leak Due to Uncleared ThreadLocal Variables

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 12:13:13

In Java, we commonly use static, instance (member), and local variables. Occasionally, we use ThreadLocal variables. When a variable is declared as ThreadLocal, it will only be visible to that particular thread. ThreadLocal variables are extensively used in frameworks such as Log4J and Hibernate. If these ThreadLocal variables aren’t removed after their use, they will accumulate in memory and have the potential to trigger an OutOfMemoryError. In this post, let’s learn how to troubleshoot memory leaks that are caused by ThreadLocal variables.

Modernizing Financial Systems: The Critical Role of Cloud-Based Microservices Optimization

Aggregated on: 2025-06-13 11:13:13

Legacy systems in financial institutions often lead to scalability bottlenecks, security risks, and poor resiliency. In the modern digital economy, banks, payment providers, and fintech firms need infrastructure that is cost-effective, agile, and resilient. Cloud-based microservices have emerged as a modern approach to address these needs. By breaking monolithic systems into modular services, financial firms can accelerate innovation, reduce downtime. By achieving these, they can meet rising expectations for secure and real-time digital transactions. Understanding Cloud-Based Microservices in Fintech What are Microservices? Microservices are an architectural style where an application is built through a modular approach instead of a large applications. Financial services are broken into small, independent services that communicate among themselves securely. This ensures that the Financial system is resilient, which means if one service fails, the rest are running. It provides scalability, which implies each service can be scaled based on the needs without impacting others. It also ensures secure systems where each service follows its strict security guidelines.

KubeVirt: Can VM Management With Kubernetes Work?

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 21:13:13

KubeVirt offers a bridge between virtual machines and containerized environments. As an open-source project, its standout feature is the ability to run VMs and containers side by side. But while the concept is promising, several caveats remain for organizations that need to support critical at-scale VM workloads. The CNCF project also reflects how containers are not going to replace VMs, while the reverse may be true in the long term for many use cases.

HTAP Using a Star Query on MongoDB Atlas Search Index

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 20:13:13

MongoDB is often chosen for online transaction processing (OLTP) due to its flexible document model, which can align with domain-specific data structures and access patterns. Beyond basic transactional workloads, MongoDB also supports search capabilities through Atlas Search, built on Apache Lucene. When combined with the aggregation pipeline, this enables limited online analytical processing (OLAP) functionality suitable for near-real-time analytics. Because MongoDB uses a unified document model, these analytical queries can run without restructuring the data, allowing for certain hybrid transactional and analytical (HTAP) workloads. This article explores such a use case in the context of healthcare. Traditional relational databases employ a complex query optimization method known as "star transformation" and rely on multiple single-column indexes, along with bitmap operations, to support efficient ad-hoc queries. This typically requires a dimensional schema, or star schema, which is distinct from the normalized operational schema used for transactional updates. MongoDB can support a similar querying approach using its document schema, which is often designed for operational use. By adding an Atlas Search index to the collection storing transactional data, certain analytical queries can be supported without restructuring the schema.

The Missing Infrastructure Layer: Why AI's Next Evolution Requires Distributed Systems Thinking

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 19:13:13

The recent announcement of KubeMQ-Aiway caught my attention not as another AI platform launch, but as validation of a trend I've been tracking across the industry. After spending the last two decades building distributed systems and the past three years deep in AI infrastructure consulting, the patterns are becoming unmistakable: we're at the same inflection point that microservices faced a decade ago. The Distributed Systems Crisis in AI We've been here before. In the early 2010s, as monolithic architectures crumbled under scale pressures, we frantically cobbled together microservices with HTTP calls and prayed our systems wouldn't collapse. It took years to develop proper service meshes, message brokers, and orchestration layers that made distributed systems reliable rather than just functional.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Controlling Logs With Fluent Bit on Kubernetes (Part 4)

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 18:13:13

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.

Engineering Resilience Through Data: A Comprehensive Approach to Change Failure Rate Monitoring

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 17:13:13

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to measure and improve their delivery performance. Among the key metrics that have emerged from the DevOps movement, Change Failure Rate (CFR) stands as a critical indicator of software quality and operational stability. This article explores how modern teams can effectively implement, track, and leverage CFR to drive continuous improvement in their delivery pipelines. Understanding Change Failure Rate: Beyond the Basic Metric Change Failure Rate is one of the four key metrics identified by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team that correlate with high-performing engineering organizations. Simply put, CFR measures the percentage of changes to production that result in degraded service or require remediation.