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Misunderstanding Agile: Bridging The Gap With A Kaizen Mindset

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

In recent years, Agile has become closely associated with modern software development, promoting customer-focused value delivery, regular feedback loops, and empowered teams. However, beneath the familiar terminology, many technical professionals are beginning to question whether Agile is achieving its intended outcomes or simply adding complexity. Many experienced developers and engineers voice discontent with excessive processes, poorly executed rituals, and a disconnect between Agile principles and the realities of their daily work.

How Security Engineers Can Help Build a Strong Security Culture

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 15:28:13

In today’s fast-paced world, organizations face increasing cyber threats that can compromise their operational integrity, erode customer trust, and jeopardize financial stability. While it’s crucial to have advanced security technologies in place, many organizations overlook the importance of cultivating a culture of security. A robust security culture is a key factor in preventing security breaches, as it ensures that everyone in the organization is invested in and responsible for protecting sensitive information. Security engineers, as technical experts and trusted advisors, are uniquely positioned to lead the way in building this culture.

Beyond Java Streams: Exploring Alternative Functional Programming Approaches in Java

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 14:28:13

Few concepts in Java software development have changed how we approach writing code in Java than Java Streams. They provide a clean, declarative way to process collections and have thus become a staple in modern Java applications. However, for all their power, Streams present their own challenges, especially where flexibility, composability, and performance optimization are priorities. What if your programming needs more expressive functional paradigms? What if you are looking for laziness and safety beyond what Streams provide and want to explore functional composition at a lower level? In this article, we will be exploring other functional programming techniques you can use in Java that do not involve using the Streams API.

Designing Scalable Multi-Agent AI Systems: Leveraging Domain-Driven Design and Event Storming

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 13:28:12

Multi-Agent AI Systems (MAS) are becoming increasingly crucial for tackling complex, real-world problems. With projections indicating that 82% of organizations plan to integrate AI agents and 25% of enterprises deploying them by 2025, it's essential to have robust methodologies for designing these systems. In this post, we’ll look at how blending Event Storming with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) can help build more effective and well-structured Multi-Agent Systems. Understanding the Core Concepts Multi-Agent AI Systems (MAS) Multi-Agent AI Systems are computerized systems composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. They are designed to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for individual agents or monolithic systems to address. Key characteristics of MAS include:

How to Install and Set Up Jenkins With Docker Compose

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

Jenkins is an open-source CI/CD tool written in Java that is used for organising the CI/CD pipelines. Currently, at the time of writing this blog, it has 24k stars and 9.1k forks on GitHub. With over 2000 plugin support, Jenkins is a well-known tool in the DevOps world. The following are multiple ways to install and set up Jenkins:

Automating Sentiment Analysis Using Snowflake Cortex

Aggregated on: 2025-06-12 11:13:12

In this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to automate sentiment analysis and categorize customer feedback using Snowflake Cortex, all through a simple SQL query without needing to build heavy and complex machine learning algorithms. No MLOps is required. We'll work with sample data simulating real customer feedback comments about a fictional company, "DemoMart," and classify each customer feedback entry using Cortex's built-in function. We'll determine sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) and label the feedback into different categories.

When Agile Teams Fake Progress: The Hidden Danger of Status Over Substance

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 21:13:12

Introduction: The Friday Night Hero It’s Friday, 9:42 p.m. The sprint ended at noon. But a developer is still logged in, finalizing a hotfix that wasn’t in scope, wasn’t planned, and definitely wasn’t their responsibility alone. They’ll push the code, document it on Monday, and maybe get a “great hustle” in the next retro.

AI-Native Platforms: The Unstoppable Alliance of GenAI and Platform Engineering

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 20:13:12

Let's be honest. Building developer platforms, especially for AI-native teams, is a complex art, a constant challenge. It's about finding a delicate balance: granting maximum autonomy to development teams without spiraling into chaos, and providing incredibly powerful, cutting-edge tools without adding superfluous complexity to their already dense workload. Our objective as Platform Engineers has always been to pave the way, remove obstacles, and accelerate innovation. But what if the next, inevitable phase of platform evolution wasn't just about what we build and provide, but what Generative AI can help us co-build, co-design, and co-manage? We're not talking about a mere incremental improvement, a minor optimization, or a marginal new feature. We're facing a genuine paradigm shift, a conceptual earthquake where artificial intelligence is no longer merely the final product of our efforts, the result of our development toils, but becomes the silent partner, the tireless ally that is already reimagining, rewriting, and redefining our entire development experience. This is the real gamble, the challenge that awaits us: transforming our platforms from simple toolsets, however sophisticated, into intelligent, dynamic, and self-optimizing ecosystems. A place where productivity isn't just high, but exceptionally high, and innovation flows frictionlessly.

Java Enterprise Matters: Why It All Comes Back to Jakarta EE

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 19:13:12

Enterprise Java has been a foundation for mission-critical applications for decades. From financial systems to telecom platforms, Java offers the portability, stability, and robustness needed at scale. Yet as software architecture shifts toward microservices, containers, and cloud-native paradigms, the question naturally arises: is Jakarta EE still relevant? For modern Java developers, the answer is a resounding yes. Jakarta EE provides a standardized, vendor-neutral set of APIs for building enterprise applications, and its evolution under the Eclipse Foundation has been a case study in open innovation. It bridges traditional enterprise reliability with the flexibility needed for today’s distributed systems, making it an essential tool for developers who want to build scalable, secure, and cloud-ready applications.

Enterprise-Grade Distributed JMeter Load Testing on Kubernetes: A Scalable, CI/CD-Driven DevOps Approach

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 18:28:12

Application performance, scalability, and resilience are critical for ensuring a seamless user experience. Apache JMeter is a powerful open-source tool for load testing, but running it on a single machine limits scalability, automation, and distributed execution. This blog presents a Kubernetes-powered JMeter setup on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which can also be deployed on other cloud platforms like AWS EKS and Google GKE, integrated with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. This approach enables dynamic scaling, automated test execution, real-time performance monitoring, and automated reporting and alerting.

From ETL to ELT to Real-Time: Modern Data Engineering with Databricks Lakehouse

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 17:28:12

The data engineering landscape has rapidly changed over the past few years, shifting from the classical ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) model to the more modern ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) model. In the ETL approach, data was transformed before being stored, which reduced flexibility. ELT reverses this process by first loading raw data into data lakes or warehouses and then transforming it within these environments, enabling more agile, on-demand analytics. However, as data volumes and business requirements have increased, ELT has become inadequate for many real-time use cases. Today, organizations need rapid access to insights to maintain operational agility, which has led to a growing demand for real-time data processing capabilities. Leading this shift is the Databricks Lakehouse solution, which provides a unified framework that combines the strengths of data lakes with the power of data warehouses. This fully integrated platform enables organizations to move quickly, make data-driven decisions, and maintain flexibility across diverse workloads.

Converting List to String in Terraform

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 16:13:12

In Terraform, you will often need to convert a list to a string when passing values to configurations that require a string format, such as resource names, cloud instance metadata, or labels. Terraform uses HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language), so handling lists requires functions like join() or format(), depending on the context. How to Convert a List to a String in Terraform The join() function is the most effective way to convert a list into a string in Terraform. This concatenates list elements using a specified delimiter, making it especially useful when formatting data for use in resource names, cloud tags, or dynamically generated scripts.

Building Generative AI Services: An Introductory and Practical Guide

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a vast range of generative artificial intelligence solutions, which allow developers to add advanced AI capabilities to their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. This report highlights the creation of functional applications using Amazon Bedrock, which is a serverless offering based on an API that provides access to core models from leading suppliers, including Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon. As the demand for AI-powered applications grows, developers seek easy and scalable solutions to integrate generative AI into their applications. AWS provides this capability through the firm's proprietary generative AI services, and the standout among these is Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock enables you to access foundation models via API without worrying about underlying infrastructure, scaling, and model training.

Evaluating Similariy Digests: A Study of TLSH, ssdeep, and sdhash Against Common File Modifications

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 14:13:12

The field of digital forensics often uses signatures to identify malicious executables. These signatures can take various forms: cryptographic hashes can be used to uniquely identify executables, whereas tools like YARA can help malware researchers identify and classify malware samples. The behavior of files— functions exported, functions called, IP addresses and domains they connect to, files written or read—also provide useful indicators that a system has been compromised. Cryptographic hashes, YARA rules and indicators of compromise are usually compared against curated databases of trusted or malicious signatures, such as those maintained by the National Software Reference Library and MalwareBazaar. Hashes like MD5 and SHA256 are designed to change drastically even with minor modifications to the original executable, making it easy for malware authors to evade. Modern cloud environments make it easy to evade behavioral detection as well, allowing threat actors to tailor their malware to specific platforms. In general, matching against feeds of known indicators misses unknown or undiscovered threat vectors.

Software Specs 2.0: An Elaborate Example

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 13:13:12

This article is a follow-up to the article that lays the theoretical foundation for software requirement qualities. Here, I provide an example for how to craft requirements for a User Authentication Login Endpoint. A practical illustration of how essential software requirement qualities can be interwoven when designing specifications for AI-generated code. I demonstrate the crucial interplay between explicitness (to achieve completeness), unambiguity (for machine-first understandability), constraint definition (to guide implementation and ensure viability), and testability (through explicit acceptance criteria). We'll explore how these qualities can practically be achieved through structured documentation. Our goal is that our AI assistant has a clear, actionable blueprint for generating a secure and functional login service.

Integrating Cursor and LLM for BDD Testing With Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 12:13:12

Imagine writing automated tests that feel like describing a story, where your natural language ideas transform into robust, executable code in seconds. It’s reality, thanks to the convergence of AI-powered tools like Cursor, Large Language Models (LLMs), and the Playwright Model Context Protocol (MCP). These tools are enhancing Behavior Driven Development (BDD), making test automation faster, smarter, and more collaborative.

Cognitive Architecture: How LLMs Are Changing the Way We Build Software

Aggregated on: 2025-06-11 11:13:12

Software architecture has long been rooted in object-oriented and, later, service-oriented paradigms. These models have helped teams build modular systems, isolating behavior into manageable services that communicate over well-defined APIs. As systems grew, microservices brought benefits like scalability and decoupling, but also introduced significant complexity in orchestration. Today, we're witnessing a fundamental shift. The growing influence of foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs), is changing how we approach software design. These models aren't just code libraries; they can understand context, reason about goals, and generate human-like responses. This has led to the rise of agent-oriented programming, where autonomous agents, not statically programmed services, drive system behavior. In this new paradigm, agents are constructed from language models, structured prompts, memory layers, and external tools.

Exploring Reactive and Proactive Observability in the Modern Monitoring Landscape

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 21:13:12

Introduction The modern digital world, with its complex web of microservices, containerized apps, and cloud-native systems, demands a rethinking of how we monitor and observe these environments. From the traditional monitoring systems, there is an evident shift to two main approaches that have emerged: Reactive and Proactive observability. What is Reactive and Proactive Observability? Organizations rely on metrics, logs, and traces to retroactively identify the underlying causes of issues, similar to treating an infection. Reactive observability is a conventional approach that examines system behavior after an incident has occurred. This reactive method requires organizations to have the necessary tools and expertise, which helps them detect symptoms and connect them to a solution that resolves the problem.

How Node.js Works Behind the Scenes (HTTP, Libuv, and Event Emitters)

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When working with Node.js, most people just learn how to use it to build apps or run servers—but very few stop to ask how it actually works under the hood. Understanding the inner workings of Node.js helps you write better, more efficient code. It also makes debugging and optimizing your apps much easier. A lot of developers think Node.js is just "JavaScript with server features". That’s not entirely true. While it uses JavaScript, Node.js is much more than that. It includes powerful tools and libraries that give JavaScript abilities it normally doesn't have—like accessing your computer’s file system or handling network requests. These extra powers come from something deeper happening behind the scenes, and that's what this blog will help you understand.

Understanding the Mandelbrot Set: A Beautiful Benchmark for Computing Power

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Imagine a mathematical object so complex that it can push computers to their limits, yet so beautiful that it has captivated mathematicians and artists alike. Welcome to the world of the Mandelbrot set—a fascinating fractal that doubles as a powerful benchmark for computing performance. Have you ever wondered how to compare the performance of different programming languages? While there are many benchmarking tools available, the Mandelbrot set offers a uniquely compelling approach that combines mathematical elegance with computational challenge.

Altering XML Tag Position Using Mule 4 With Basic Authentication

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 18:28:11

Sometimes when working with XML data, you need to rearrange the order of elements to match a specific format the business requires. But going through each tag one by one and looping over everything can get complicated and slow. Luckily, with Mule 4 and DataWeave 2.0, you can easily shift XML tags around without having to write complex loops or extra code. On top of that, if your service needs to be secured, basic authentication can be seamlessly added to keep things safe and simple.

Turbocharge Load Testing: Yandex.Tank + ghz Combo for Lightning-Fast Code Checks

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 17:13:12

Hi there! Occasionally, there arises a need for swift load testing, whether it be in a local environment or on a testing platform. Typically, such tasks are tackled using specialized tools that demand thorough prior comprehension. However, within enterprises and startups where rapid time-to-market and prompt hypothesis validation are paramount, excessive tool familiarization becomes a luxury. This article aims to spotlight developer-centric solutions that obviate the necessity for profound engagement, allowing for rudimentary testing without delving into pages of documentation.

Taming Billions of Rows: How Metadata and SQL Can Replace Your ETL Pipeline

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 16:13:11

Many enterprises that collect large volumes of time-series data from storage, virtualization, and cloud environments often run into a known problem: retaining long-term insights (data) without overwhelming storage and compute. To solve this problem, time-series analytics platforms need to handle billions of records efficiently while still delivering actionable insights. The solution we will discuss here is to build a dynamic data aggregation engine directly into the platform. This article looks at a vendor-agnostic approach for aggregating, transforming, and purging time-series data effectively. The goal is to make it easier to manage growth without sacrificing data quality or performance and reducing storage needed.

Event Sourcing Unpacked: The What, Why, and How

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 15:13:11

A traditional system maintains its state consistent with respective business rules. When queried, this system provides its current state only i.e. where the system is, and no information about how it got there. A simple approach to track the systems’ state evolution (how it got there) is by maintaining history. However, this approach is limited to providing information about state changes only. Moreover, the record-keeping becomes burdened with process details and has to evolve with all the processes that affect the state change.

The Rise of Self‐Service Platforms: How Cloud Development Environments Are Reshaping Dev Culture

Aggregated on: 2025-06-10 14:13:11

As software development continues to evolve, companies are reimagining how teams collaborate to build and ship applications. The emergence of cloud development environments (CDEs) has been a major catalyst in this change, offering self‐service platforms that make it easier for developers to spin up resources on demand. Coupled with platform engineering and internal developer portals, these self‐service solutions are fundamentally altering the software development culture by reducing cognitive load and boosting productivity. The Shift Toward Self‐Service Traditionally, developers had to navigate complex layers of approvals and processes to get the infrastructure they needed. Each new environment or tool often meant waiting for separate teams, such as ops or security, to provision resources. This created bottlenecks, slowed innovation, and increased context-switching.

What They Don’t Teach You About Starting Your First IT Job

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From Certification to Chaos You’ve got your first tech job. You’re excited, you’re nervous—and within the first week, you’re confused. Everyone talks about sprints, blockers, Jira, and velocity. But what didn’t they mention in your certification course? Real life doesn’t run by the book. You won’t find answers for every work situation in your Scrum manual or your college lecture notes.

Secure Your Oracle Database Passwords in AWS RDS With a Password Verification Function

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Protecting database access through strong password policies is a cornerstone of security in any environment. When deploying Oracle databases on AWS RDS, enforcing password complexity is essential, but the approach differs slightly from on-premises Oracle environments. AWS provides two primary ways to enforce password complexity in RDS Oracle: using the standard ORA_STIG_VERIFY_FUNCTION or a custom user-defined verification function. This article provides a detailed, step-by-step guide for implementing both methods to help secure Oracle database passwords in AWS RDS.

Operationalizing Data Quality in Cloud ETL Workflows: Automated Validation and Anomaly Detection

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Data quality has shifted from a checkpoint to being an operational requirement. As more and more data warehouses become cloud-native, and the complexity of running real-time pipelines increases, data engineers face a non-trivial problem: how to operationalize quality checks without slowing down the velocity of the ETL workflows. “Traditional post-load checks or static rules” do not suffice. Automated validation and anomaly detection in cloud ETL pipelines need to be performed in a manner that adapts to evolving schemas, variable latency, and dynamic business logic. Why Reactive Data Quality Is No Longer Enough In the past, data quality was typically validated at the end of an ETL pipeline, often using standalone validation scripts or manual dashboards. This post-hoc approach worked reasonably well in static, batch-oriented data ecosystems. However, in modern cloud environments where data flows through event-driven, streaming, and micro-batch jobs, such passive controls introduce significant latency and operational risk. By the time an issue is detected — sometimes hours or even days later — the damage may already be done.

Mastering Accessibility in Web Development: A Developer’s Guide

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Introduction Accessibility (a11y) is not just a feature—it’s a necessity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1 billion people globally have some form of disability. Ensuring that digital experiences are accessible allows everyone to use and benefit from web applications. Despite its importance, many developers overlook accessibility due to a lack of awareness or perceived complexity. In this article, we’ll break down key accessibility concepts, common issues, and best practices with practical examples, ensuring your web applications are inclusive and WCAG-compliant.

How You Can Use Few-Shot Learning In LLM Prompting To Improve Its Performance

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You must’ve noticed that large language models can sometimes generate information that seems plausible but isn't factually accurate. Providing more explicit instructions and context is one of the key ways to reduce such LLM hallucinations. That said, have you ever struggled to get an AI model to understand precisely what you want to achieve? Perhaps you've provided detailed instructions only to receive outputs that fall short of the mark?

Software Specs 2.0: Evolving Requirements for the AI Era (2025 Edition)

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Any form of data that we can use to make decisions for writing code, be it requirements, specifications, user stories, and the like, must have certain qualities. In agile development, for example, we have the INVEST qualities. More specifically, a user story must be Independent of all others and Negotiable, i.e., not a specific contract for features. It must be Valuable (or vertical) and Estimable (to a good approximation). It must also be Small to fit within an iteration and Testable (in principle, even if there isn’t a test for it yet). This article goes beyond agile, waterfall, rapid application development, and the like. I will summarise a set of general and foundational qualities as a blueprint for software development.

Online Developer Tools a Backdoor to Security Threat

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Free Online Utilities May Not Be Safe Using online developer utilities, such as a JSON Viewer, can be incredibly convenient for parsing and visualizing JSON data, but they also come with significant risks. The tool, for instance, often requires users to upload JSON files or paste sensitive data directly into the tool. If the utility operates online without robust security measures, this data could be intercepted or stored without the user's knowledge, potentially exposing confidential information such as API keys, user credentials, or proprietary business logic. One major concern is the lack of transparency in how some online tools handle uploaded data. For example, if the JSON Viewer utility does not explicitly state that it deletes data after processing, there is a risk that the data could be retained on the server, making it vulnerable to breaches. Additionally, if the tool is hosted on an unsecured or compromised website, attackers could exploit it to inject malicious scripts or steal data.

The Bare Metal Bet That Made Our Multiplayer Platform Hum

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The cloud may be fast…but it nearly slowed us down. When we launched Hathora in 2022, we knew the infrastructure behind multiplayer games was long overdue for reinvention. Studios like EA and Blizzard had built their own complex systems to host game servers, but for most multiplayer game studios, that approach was out of reach. Our goal was to eliminate the barrier with a platform-as-a-service built specifically for multiplayer game workloads (low-latency, stateful servers ready to handle millions of connections without the overhead of managing infrastructure).

From Code to Customer: Building Fault-Tolerant Microservices With Observability in Mind

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Microservices have become the go-to approach for building systems that need to scale efficiently and stay resilient under pressure. However, a microservices architecture comes with many potential points of failure—dozens or even hundreds of distributed components communicating over a network. To ensure your code makes it all the way to the customer without hiccups, you need to design for failure from the start. This is where fault tolerance and observability come in. By embracing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, developers can build microservices that not only survive failures but automatically detect and recover from them. In this article, we’ll explore how to build fault-tolerant backend microservices on Kubernetes, integrating resilience patterns (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting, etc.) with robust observability, monitoring, and alerting. We’ll also compare these resilience strategies and provide practical examples—from Kubernetes health probes to alerting rules—to illustrate how to keep services reliable from code to customer.

Defining Effective Microservice Boundaries - A Practical Approach To Avoiding The Most Common Mistakes

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Have you found yourself staring at an entire whiteboard filled with boxes and arrows, pondering whether this would become the next awesome microservices architecture or the worst distributed monolith that ever existed? Same here, and more often than I would like to admit. Last month, I was talking to one of my cofounder friends, and he mentioned, “We have 47 services!” with pride. Then two weeks later, I was going through their docs and found out that to deploy a simple feature, I need to make changes in six of their services. What I thought was their “microservices” architecture turned out to be a monolith split into pieces, with distribution complexity but no benefits whatsoever.

Toward Indigenous AI: A Critical Analysis of BharatGen’s Role in Data Sovereignty and Language Equity

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Abstract This study critically examines BharatGen, a government-backed initiative to develop India’s foundational multimodal and multilingual Large Language Model (LLM), as a transformative step towards indigenous Artificial Intelligence (AI). In a landscape dominated by global LLMs, concerns over data sovereignty and underrepresentation of non-English languages have become increasingly salient. This study analyzes BharatGen’s role in addressing these issues by enhancing national control over digital data and promoting language equity across India’s diverse linguistic spectrum. This study explores BharatGen’s strategic significance in reducing dependence on external AI ecosystems, its alignment with India’s national AI policy objectives, and the challenges and opportunities associated with its deployment. Ultimately, this study argues that initiatives such as BharatGen are vital not only for technological self-reliance but also for preserving cultural identity and ensuring linguistic inclusivity in the evolving global AI ecosystem. Keywords Indigenous AI, BharatGen, Data Sovereignty, Language Equity, Multilingual AI, Indian Language Technologies, Foundational Models, AI Policy in India, Digital Inclusion, Multimodal Language Models, Ethical AI, AI for Low-Resource Languages, AI Localization, Sovereign AI Infrastructure, National AI Strategy

Integrating Apache Spark With Drools: A Loan Approval Demo

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Near real-time decision-making systems are critical for modern business applications. Integrating Apache Spark (Streaming) and Drools provides scalability and flexibility, enabling efficient handling of rule-based decision-making at scale. This article showcases their integration through a loan approval system, demonstrating its architecture, implementation, and advantages. Problem Statement Applying numerous rules using Spark user-defined functions (UDFs) can become complex and hard to maintain due to extensive if-else logic.

Kung Fu Code: Master Shifu Teaches Strategy Pattern to Po – The Functional Way

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"There is no good or bad code. But how you write it… that makes all the difference.” - Master Shifu The sun had just touched the tips of the Valley of Peace. Birds chirped, the wind whispered tales of warriors, and Po—the Dragon Warrior—was busy trying to write some Java code. Yes, you read that right.

Serverless IAM: Implementing IAM in Serverless Architectures with Lessons from the Security Trenches

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When I first began working with serverless architectures in 2018, I quickly discovered that my traditional security playbook wasn't going to cut it. The ephemeral nature of functions, the distributed service architecture, and the multiplicity of entry points created a fundamentally different security landscape. After several years of implementing IAM strategies for serverless applications across various industries, I've compiled the approaches that have proven most effective in real-world scenarios. This article shares these insights, focusing on practical Python implementations that address the unique security challenges of serverless environments.

Measuring What Matters: The True Impact of Platform Teams

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The Growing Importance of Platform Teams Platform teams have emerged as a crucial component in modern software development, bridging the gap between development and operations, streamlining processes, and enhancing productivity. Before becoming essential in modern software development, platform teams were often viewed as optional support units, primarily focused on maintaining infrastructure and providing basic tools for developers. Now, cloud adoption, growing software complexity, and increased market competition have highlighted the need for streamlined processes and improved developer productivity.

How to Create a Custom React Component in Vaadin Flow

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Vaadin Flow is a Java-based, backend-driven UI framework that is best suited for admin UIs, where the number of active users is predictable and bounded. Within this controlled context, the UI state can be managed on the backend, sharing only the necessary diffs with the user for rendering. From a developer’s perspective, all UI configuration remains in Java code. There is no need to manually create separate REST endpoints, as the UI component state is managed directly within Java.

How to Improve Software Architecture in a Cloud Environment

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The need for software architecture today has grown more critical due to the increasing complexity, scale, and expectations of modern software systems. Applications today aren't simple. They involve multiple layers: frontend, backend, databases, integrations, microservices, and sometimes even AI/ML components. A strong architecture provides a roadmap for organizing this complexity into manageable pieces, making it easier to develop, maintain, and scale. This article explains how we can improve the existing architecture on a project to make it more robust and powerful for all of today’s challenges.

Secure IaC With a Shift-Left Approach

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Imagine you're building a skyscraper—not just quickly, but with precision. You rely on blueprints to make sure every beam and every bolt is exactly where it should be. That’s what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is for today’s cloud-native organizations—a blueprint for the cloud. As businesses race to innovate faster, IaC helps them automate and standardize how cloud resources are built. But here’s the catch: speed without security is like skipping the safety checks on that skyscraper. One misconfigured setting, an exposed secret, or a non-compliant resource can bring the whole thing down—or at least cause serious trouble in production. That’s why the shift-left approach to secure IaC matters more than ever. What Does “Shift-Left” Mean in IaC? Shifting left refers to moving security and compliance checks earlier in the development process. Rather than waiting until deployment or runtime to detect issues, teams validate security policies, compliance rules, and access controls as code is written—enabling faster feedback, reduced rework, and stronger cloud governance.

Finding Needles in Digital Haystacks: The Distributed Tracing Revolution

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It's 3 AM. Your phone buzzes with an alert. A critical API is responding slowly, with angry customer tweets already appearing. Your architecture spans dozens of microservices across multiple cloud providers. Where do you even begin? Without distributed tracing, you're reduced to:

Evaluating the Evaluators: Building Reliable LLM-as-a-Judge Systems

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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) as evaluators, termed “LLM-as-a-Judge,” represents a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence. Traditionally, evaluation tasks have relied on human judgment or automated metrics, each with distinct strengths and limitations, you must have seen this while working with traditional ML models. Now, LLMs offer a compelling alternative, combining the nuanced reasoning of human evaluators with the scalability and consistency of automated tools. However, building reliable LLM-as-a-Judge systems requires addressing key challenges related to reliability, biases, and scalability. Why LLM-as-a-Judge? Evaluation tasks often involve assessing the quality, relevance, or accuracy of outputs, such as grading academic submissions, reviewing creative content, or ranking search results. Historically, human evaluators have been the gold standard due to their contextual understanding and holistic reasoning. However, human evaluations are time-consuming, costly, and prone to inconsistencies.

Data Storage and Indexing in PostgreSQL: Practical Guide With Examples and Performance Insights

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PostgreSQL employs sophisticated techniques for data storage and indexing to ensure efficient data management and fast query performance. This guide explores PostgreSQL's mechanisms, showcases practical examples, and includes simulated performance metrics to illustrate the impact of indexing. Data Storage in PostgreSQL Table Structure and TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) Table Structure: PostgreSQL stores table data in a format known as a heap. Each table's heap contains one or more pages (blocks), where each page is typically 8KB in size. This size can be altered when compiling PostgreSQL from source. PostgreSQL organizes table data in a heap structure with 8KB pages by default. Rows exceeding a page size are handled using TOAST, which compresses and stores oversized attributes in secondary storage.

Monorepo Development With React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL With Prisma and ClickHouse

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What's the Big Idea? Building web apps with separate frontends, backends, and databases can be a headache. A monorepo puts everything in one place, making it easier to share code, develop locally, and test the whole app together. We showed how to build a simple signup dashboard using React, Node.js, PostgreSQL (with Prisma for easy database access), and optionally ClickHouse for fast data analysis, all within a monorepo structure. This setup helps you scale your app cleanly and makes life easier for your team. In this guide, we're going to build a super simple app that shows how many people sign up each day. We'll use:

MLOps: Practical Lessons from Bridging the Gap Between ML Development and Production

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After leading multiple machine learning teams through the transition from prototype to production, I've witnessed firsthand how the discipline of MLOps has evolved from a loosely defined concept to a critical enterprise function. This evolution hasn't been straightforward - many of the practices we now consider standard emerged through trial and error across the industry. In this article, I'll share insights from implementing MLOps across organizations of different sizes and maturity levels, highlighting current trends and offering practical guidance based on real-world implementation challenges.

Beyond Web Scraping: Building a Reddit Intelligence Engine With Airflow, DuckDB, and Ollama

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Reddit offers an invaluable trove of community-driven discussions that provide rich data for computational analysis. As researchers and computer scientists, we can extract meaningful insights from these social interactions using modern data engineering and AI techniques. In this article, I'll demonstrate how to build a sophisticated Reddit intelligence engine that goes beyond basic web scraping to deliver actionable analytical insights using Ollama for local LLM inference.

Multi-Cluster Networking With Kubernetes and Docker: Connecting Your Containerized Environment

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Ever found yourself managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across different environments, and wondering how to get them all talking to each other without losing your mind? You're not alone. Multi-cluster networking has become a necessity as organizations expand their container footprints. I've spent years watching teams combatting this similar problem, and what I've found is that with the right approach, multi-cluster networking doesn't have to be complicated. Let's explore how to connect your containerized universe effectively and securely.