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Shipping Responsible AI Without Slowing Down

Aggregated on: 2025-09-24 12:07:30

In software engineering, launch day rarely fails because a unit test was missing; in machine learning (ML), that’s not the case. Inputs far from training data, adversarial prompts, proxies that drift away from human goals, or an upstream artefact that isn’t what it claims to be can all sink a release. The question is not “can every failure be prevented?” but “can failures be bounded, detected quickly, and recovered from predictably?” Two research threads shape this approach. The first maps where ML goes wrong in production: robustness gaps, weak runtime monitoring, misalignment with real human objectives, and systemic issues across the stack (supply chain, access, blast radius). The second focuses on how teams make decisions that stand up to scrutiny: a deliberative loop that’s open, informed, multi-vocal, and responsive. Put together, the operating model feels like standard software engineering — just opinionated for ML.

Top 7 Mistakes When Testing JavaFX Applications

Aggregated on: 2025-09-24 11:07:30

JavaFX is a versatile tool for creating rich enterprise-grade GUI applications. Testing these applications is an integral part of the development lifecycle. However, Internet sources are very scarce when it comes to defining best practices and guidelines for testing JavaFX apps. Therefore, developers must rely on commercial offerings for JavaFX testing services or write their test suites following trial-and-error approaches. This article summarises the seven most common mistakes programmers make when testing JavaFX applications and ways to avoid them.

LLMs at the Edge: Decentralized Power and Control

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 19:07:29

Most of the large language models' applications have been implemented in centralized cloud environments, raising concerns about latency, privacy, and energy consumption. This chapter examines the potential application of LLMs in decentralized edge computing, where computing tasks are distributed across interconnected devices rather than centralized hosts. Therefore, by applying approaches like quantization, model compression, distributed inference, and federated learning, LLMs solve the problems of limited computational and memory resources on edge devices, making them suitable for practical use in real-world settings. Several advantages of decentralization are outlined in the chapter, such as increased privacy, user control, and enhanced system robustness. Additionally, it focuses on the potential of employing energy-efficient methods and dynamic power modes to enhance edge systems. The conclusion re-emphasizes that edge AI is the way forward as a responsible and performant solution for the future of decentralized AI technologies, which would be privacy-centric, high-performing, and put the user first.

Running AI/ML on Kubernetes: From Prototype to Production — Use MLflow, KServe, and vLLM on Kubernetes to Ship Models With Confidence

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 18:07:29

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Optimizing the Scale, Speed, and Intelligence of Cloud Operations. After training a machine learning model, the inference phase must be fast, reliable, and cost efficient in production. Serving inference at scale, however, brings difficult problems: GPU/resource management, latency and batching, model/version rollout, observability, and orchestration of ancillary services (preprocessors, feature stores, and vector databases). Running artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) on Kubernetes gives us a scalable, portable platform for training and serving models. Kubernetes schedules GPUs and other resources so that we can pack workloads efficiently and autoscale to match traffic for both batch jobs and real-time inference. It also coordinates multi-component stacks — like model servers, preprocessors, vector DBs, and feature stores — so that complex pipelines and low-latency endpoints run reliably.

From Requirements to Results: Anchoring Agile With Traceability

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 17:07:29

Agile is one of the most widely adopted project management methodologies in the field of software development because it enables teams to deliver incrementally, adapt quickly to changes, and prioritize collaboration over rigid processes. However, Agile’s fast-changing nature can also expose one of its weaknesses, which is traceability. Traditional project management approaches, such as Waterfall, make sure that requirements are tied to design documents, test cases, and acceptance metrics. This pipeline ensures that every feature can be traced back to its origin. On the other hand, Agile prioritizes lightweight artifacts and fast iteration, which pose challenges to tracking how individual backlog items map to higher-level business objectives. As a project manager, I’ve seen this gap firsthand. Teams often run into questions like: Are we building the features that align with stakeholder needs? Do the tests validate the requirements? Did we guarantee full coverage across multiple sprints? Without a clear system of traceability, the results are often uncertain.

AI Readiness: Why Cloud Infrastructure Will Decide Who Wins the Next Wave

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 16:52:29

Everywhere I go, cloud and DevOps teams are asking the same question: “Are we ready for AI?”

Model Evaluation Metrics Explained

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 16:07:29

Measuring the true performance of machine learning models goes far beyond headline accuracy. The metrics you choose shape not only how you tweak your algorithms, but how your models impact users, businesses, and critical systems. In this article, we break down the most practical and widely used evaluation metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score, and ROC-AUC. Alongside technical definitions, we'll discuss their strategic importance-how these numbers map to real-world outcomes and business objectives. Whether you're shipping a product or publishing research, knowing how to evaluate model success is foundational to effective machine learning. We'll also look at common metric pitfalls-and how to avoid them.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Output Plugins for Developers (Part 7)

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 15:07:29

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.

Testing Automation Antipatterns: When Good Practices Become Your Worst Enemy

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 14:07:29

Note: This article is a summary of a talk I gave at VLCTesting in 2023. Here's the recording (Spanish). Test automation is a fundamental tool for gaining confidence in what we build in a fast and efficient way. However, we often encounter practices that, while seemingly beneficial in the short term, generate significant problems in the long term: antipatterns.

Why the Principle of Least Privilege Is Critical for Non-Human Identities

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 13:07:29

Attackers only really care about two aspects of a leaked secret: does it still work, and what privileges it grants once they are in. One of the takeaways from GitGuardian’s 2025 State of Secrets Sprawl Report was that the majority of GitLab and GitHub API keys leaked in public had been granted full read and write access to the associated repositories. Once an attacker controls access to a repository, they can do all sorts of nasty business. Both platforms allow for fine-grained access controls, enabling developers to tightly restrict what every token can and can't do. The question is then, why are teams not following the principle of least privilege for their projects? And what can be done to better secure the enterprise against overpermissioned NHIs?

Scaling ML Experiments: The High-Throughput Playbook

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 12:07:29

From Guesswork to Growth: Why A/B Testing Is Non-Negotiable Every product decision is a bet under uncertainty. A/B testing turns those bets into measurable, causal learning. By randomly assigning users to control versus treatment, you create two groups that are — on average — identical. Any difference in conversion, retention, revenue, or latency can be attributed to the change, not to seasonality, campaigns, or shifting user mix. Randomization gives you a credible counterfactual.

Top 5 RAD Platforms for Developers

Aggregated on: 2025-09-23 11:07:29

Rapid Application Development platforms are more in demand as companies aim to deliver secure, scalable systems faster while adhering to a developer-first approach. This article reviews five popular RADs that can meet the needs of professional developers. This blog post reviews five popular Rapid Application Development (RAD) platforms: WaveMaker, OpenXava, OutSystems, Oracle APEX, and Jmix. I will break down each platform's team fit, productivity, security, support, lock-in, licensing, exploring the advantages of each, and how easy it is to get started.

AI Infrastructure for Agents and LLMs: Options, Tools, and Optimization

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 19:22:29

,Infrastructure, whether on cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid cloud, plays a critical role in implementing the AI architecture. This article is part of a series of articles that explores the diverse infrastructure options available for deploying and optimizing AI agents and large language models (LLMs). It delves into the crucial role infrastructure plays in realizing AI architectures, particularly for inference. We'll examine various tools, including open-source solutions, and illustrate the inference flow with diagrams, highlighting key considerations for efficient and scalable AI deployments. Modern AI applications demand sophisticated infrastructure that can handle the computational intensity of large language models, the complexity of multi-agent systems, and the real-time requirements of interactive applications. The challenge lies not just in selecting the right tools, but in understanding how they integrate across the entire technology stack to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

Isolation Level for MongoDB Multi-Document Transactions (Strong Consistency)

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 18:22:29

Many outdated or imprecise claims about transaction isolation levels in MongoDB persist. These claims are outdated because they may be based on an old version where multi-document transactions were introduced, MongoDB 4.0, such as the old Jepsen report, and issues have been fixed since then. They are also imprecise because people attempt to map MongoDB's transaction isolation to SQL isolation levels, which is inappropriate, as the SQL Standard definitions ignore Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), utilized by most databases, including MongoDB. Martin Kleppmann has discussed this issue and provided tests to assess transaction isolation and potential anomalies. I will conduct these tests on MongoDB to explain how multi-document transactions work and avoid anomalies.

How to Build Secure Knowledge Base Integrations for AI Agents

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 17:22:29

Done well, knowledge base integrations enable AI agents to deliver specific, context-rich answers without forcing employees to dig through endless folders. Done poorly, they introduce security gaps and permissioning mistakes that erode trust. The challenge for software developers building these integrations is that no two knowledge bases handle permissions the same way. One might gate content at the space level, another at the page level, and a third at the attachment level.

Integrating AI Into Test Automation Frameworks With the ChatGPT API

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 16:07:29

When I first tried to implement AI in a test automation framework, I expected it to be helpful only for a few basic use cases. A few experiments later, I noticed several areas where the ChatGPT API actually saved me time and gave the test automation framework more power: producing realistic test data, analyzing logs in white-box tests, and handling flaky tests in CI/CD. Getting Started With the ChatGPT API ChatGPT API is a programming interface by OpenAI that operates on top of the HTTP(s) protocol. It allows sending requests and retrieving outputs from a pre-selected model as raw text, JSON, XML, or any other format you prefer to work with.

Spring REST API Client Flavors: From RestTemplate to RestClient

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 15:07:29

Just as humans have always preferred co-existing and communicating ideas, looking for and providing pieces of advice from and to their fellow humans, applications nowadays find themselves in the same situation, where they need to exchange data in order to collaborate and fulfill their purposes. At a very high level, applications’ interactions are carried out either conversationally (the case of REST APIs), where the information is exchanged synchronously by asking and responding, or asynchronously via notifications (the case of event-driven APIs), where data is sent by producers and picked up by consumers as it becomes available and they are ready.

Stop Reactive Network Troubleshooting: Monitor These 5 Metrics to Prevent Downtime

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 14:07:29

Downtime in sectors like manufacturing and healthcare isn’t just inconvenient — it’s potentially catastrophic. I’ve overseen ecosystems for years and realized that preventing such bottom-line disasters requires a watchful eye and a constant finger on the network pulse. This is possible with real monitoring across pinpointed variables: knowing which handful of key metrics predict problems in your specific environment, understanding the difference between normal fluctuations and actual performance issues, and translating technical problems into business impact before executives start asking uncomfortable questions about IT spending.

Azure IOT Cloud-to-Device Communication Methods

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 13:22:29

Today, managing communication between the cloud and millions of smart devices is challenging. Suppose you are managing a huge number of devices out there and you need to push some critical device state update to them all, but many of them are offline or may have spotty network issues; how do you make sure this message gets through? The Azure IoT Hub provides three major cloud-to-device communication mechanisms: C2D messages, direct methods, and desired properties in the device twin. These are each designed for different use cases. This article presents how to effectively select these methods to build reliable, scalable, and effective IoT solutions. Knowing the details when to use each one for what scenarios will help to build robust and reliable IOT solutions.

Benchmarking Instance Types for Amazon OpenSearch Workloads

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 12:22:28

Choosing the optimal instance type for Amazon OpenSearch clusters is crucial for balancing performance and cost. With AWS offering both the OpenSearch-specialized OM2 instances and the newer general-purpose M7g instances, organizations face an important decision. While OM2 instances are tailored for OpenSearch with high memory-to-vCPU ratios, M7g instances bring the latest technology, promising enhanced overall performance. The best choice depends on your specific workload characteristics and requirements.

Think in Graphs, Not Just Chains: JGraphlet for TaskPipelines

Aggregated on: 2025-09-22 11:22:28

JGraphlet is a tiny, zero-dependency library for building task pipelines in Java. Its power comes not from a long list of features, but from a small set of core design principles that work together in harmony. At the heart of JGraphlet is simplicity, backed by a Graph. Add Tasks to a pipeline and connect them to create your graph. Each Task has an input and output. A TaskPipeline builds and executes a pipeline while managing the I/O for each Task.

Your SDLC Has an Evil Twin — and AI Built It

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 19:22:27

You think you know your SDLC like the back of your carpal-tunnel-riddled hand: You've got your gates, your reviews, your carefully orchestrated dance of code commits and deployment pipelines. But here's a plot twist straight out of your auntie's favorite daytime soap: there's an evil twin lurking in your organization (cue the dramatic organ music).

Tiny Deltas, Big Wins: Schema-Less Thrift Patching at Planet Scale

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 18:22:27

Introduction: The Power of Tiny Deltas Imagine this common scenario: you have a binary Thrift blob, perhaps holding crucial transaction data or image metadata, stored in a distributed cache. Suddenly, a single field within that blob needs an update — maybe a transaction status change, or an image is flagged as sensitive. The catch? You don't have the Thrift IDL (Interface Definition Language) schema readily available on the serving layer, and redeploying the data producers is simply not an option due to the sheer scale and complexity of your operations. This is where the fbthrift library's parseObject/serializeObject API shines, offering a remarkably elegant solution. It enables you to deserialize, mutate, and re-emit a Thrift frame using only numeric field IDs, bypassing the need for code generation or schema uploads. This capability is invaluable for scenarios like hot-patches, rapid feature-flag flips, or compliance-driven data redactions, all without the overhead of re-sending or re-processing an entire message.

Distributed Cloud-Based Dynamic Configuration Management

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 17:22:27

It is not uncommon for back-end software to have a configuration file to start up with. These are generally YAML or JSON files, which are loaded by the system while starting up, and are then used to set up initial configuration for a system. Values included here may affect business logic or infrastructure. Let us create a new service called DumplingSale (because I love dumplings, or as we call them, momos). This service is used for managing the sales of dumplings.

Deep Dive into Distributed File System Permission Management: Linux Security Integration

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 16:22:27

In multi-user environments with high-security requirements, robust permission controls are fundamental for resource isolation. Linux's file permission model provides a flexible access control mechanism, ensuring system security through user/group permission settings. For distributed file systems supporting Linux, compliance with this model is critical for consistent security. This article explores key Linux permission mechanisms and their implementation in a FUSE-based distributed file system.

A Backend-First Approach to Production-Scale LLM Applications

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 15:07:27

A few months ago, I launched the first version of my platform, which operated without AI functionality. It worked well for its initial purpose, but I knew it could do more. A few weeks ago, I rolled out version two, this time with large language models (LLMs) as its core component. It was designed to operate through a structured workflow in which the frontend sends requests to the backend, where the platform applies business logic before accessing OpenAI's API to generate responses. All operations performed as expected during controlled testing sessions. As more people started using the platform, new problems appeared. These were mostly caused by user actions and factors such as slow internet, accidental browser refreshes, and other interruptions that affected the user experience. Users will always do unexpected things in production, and not all of it is their fault. I had to accept that and find a way for the platform to handle these hiccups smoothly. The solution was to add safeguards, a safety net to catch problems and keep the system running gracefully. I redesigned the platform, putting the backend at the center of all large language model operations.

VS Code Agent Mode: An Architect's Perspective for the .NET Ecosystem

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 14:07:27

GitHub Copilot agent mode had several enhancements in VS Code as part of its July 2025 release, further bolstering its capabilities. The supported LLMs are getting better iteratively; however, both personal experience and academic research remain divided on future capabilities and gaps. I've had my own learnings exploring agent mode for the last few months, ever since it was released, and had the best possible outcomes with Claude Sonnet Models. After 18 years of building enterprise systems — ranging from integrating siloed COTS to making clouds talk, architecting IoT telemetry data ingestions and eCommerce platforms — I've seen plenty of "revolutionary" tools come and go. I've watched us transition from monoliths to microservices, from on-premises to cloud, from waterfall to agile. I've learned Java 1.4, .NET 9, and multiple flavors of JavaScript. Each transition revealed fundamental flaws in how we think about software construction.

7 API Integration Patterns: REST, gRPC, SSE, WS, and Queues

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 13:07:27

There are multiple API integration patterns. I have already mentioned and described some of the differences in different articles: gRPC vs REST, WebSockets vs SSE. This text is a kind of One Ring article — one to rule them all. I want you to have a single place where you can find a comparison of all the API integration patterns done in a clear and consistent manner. Thus, I have put here all the previous comparisons, and added some more into this text.

Exploring Text-to-Cypher: Integrating Ollama, MCP, and Spring AI

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 12:07:27

When text-to-query approaches (specifically, text2cypher) first entered the scene, I was a bit uncertain how it was useful, especially when existing models were hit-or-miss on result accuracy. It would be hard to justify the benefits over a human expert in the domain and query language. However, as technologies have evolved over the last couple of years, I've started to see how a text-to-query approach adds flexibility to rigid applications that could previously only answer a set of pre-defined questions with limited parameters.

Spring Boot WebSocket: Building a Multichannel Chat in Java

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 11:07:27

As you may have already guessed from the title, the topic for today will be Spring Boot WebSockets. Some time ago, I provided an example of WebSocket chat based on Akka toolkit libraries. However, this chat will have somewhat more features, and a quite different design. I will skip some parts so as not to duplicate too much content from the previous article. Here you can find a more in-depth intro to WebSockets. Please note that all the code that’s used in this article is also available in the GitHub repository.

Best Software Engineer Books: Build Your Personal Library

Aggregated on: 2025-09-19 04:15:00

I believe that every one of us, software engineers, should have our own personal library of software engineering books. Whether in old plain-text book form or in a newer, more eco-friendly electronic one is an open question. The important thing is to actually have one. I am one of those strange people who believe that we, in general, should read books. Doing so has multiple benefits, but let's not dive too deep into this and focus on software engineering. Well, there are a couple of problems with software engineer books: They get old rather quickly. There are a lot of them. They are expensive. They have varying levels of quality. Given our limited time, the obvious conclusion is that it is hard to find a book worthy of reading, one we will not waste our money on. Here comes this article. It will be the first in a series focused on what books I recommend you include in your professional library. This particular blog covers books that focus on the softer parts of our job:

LLMs for Debugging Code

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 18:30:00

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming software development lifecycles, with their utility in code understanding, code generation, debugging, and many more. This article provides insights into how LLMs can be utilized to debug codebases, detailing their core capabilities, the methodologies used for training, and how the applications might evolve further in the future. Despite the issues with LLMs like hallucinations, the integration of LLMs into development environments through sophisticated, agentic debugging frameworks proves to improve developers’ efficiency. Introduction The Evolving Role of LLMs in Coding LLMs have already proven their capabilities beyond their initial applications in natural language processing to achieve remarkable performance in diverse code-related tasks, including code generation and translation. They power AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, and have demonstrated near-human-level performance on standard benchmarks such as HumanEval and MBPP.

Disabling UseNUMA Flag When CPU and Memory Node Misalign in JDK

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 17:30:00

Today, Java is still one of the widely used languages to build and run applications, and for the same reason, organizations prioritize measuring its performance. When running a Java application on a multi-NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) memory node, we need to pay attention to the remote accesses, if any, otherwise, that can result in increased latencies and hence result in reduced performance. The libnuma kernel library provides several policies, including localalloc, preferred, membind, and interleave, which enable users to affinitize their applications and run them with optimal utilization of the server nodes as per their requirements.

Blueprint for Agentic AI: Azure AI Foundry, AutoGen, and Beyond

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 16:30:00

In 2025, AI isn’t just about individual models doing one thing at a time, but it’s about intelligent agents working together like a well-coordinated team. Picture this: a group of AI systems, each with its own specialty, teaming up to solve complex problems in real time. Sounds futuristic? It’s already happening — thanks to multi-agent systems. Two tools that are making this possible in a big way are Azure AI Foundry and AutoGen.

Remote Android Management: A Step-by-Step Guide

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 15:30:00

The Problem No One Talks About In an era where screens dominate bedtime routines, millions now fall asleep to YouTube videos, podcasts, or streaming apps. However, this habit has a hidden cost: uncontrolled volume exposure, especially for children. As a parent and developer, I faced this problem firsthand — my child’s late-night YouTube binges led to restless sleep and morning irritability. Free apps in the Google Play Store, like Volume Limiter and Volume Control, were a failure: They crashed, had no settings, or were too intrusive. Perhaps commercial apps would be better, but I haven't tested this since they cost money, often quite a bit.

FOSDEM 2025 Recap: Open Source Contributors Unite to Collaborate and Help Advance Apache Software Projects

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 14:30:00

FOSDEM 2025 has come to a close, and it certainly was not without a lot of content and participation from Apache Software Foundation (ASF) members, committers, and contributors! We asked ASF participants to provide summaries and observations from this year’s premier free software event, to share a small part of the work that ASF community members do for open-source software development. This blog provides a brief overview of their talks, including links to the video recordings. Apache NuttX RTOS Talk: "SBOM Journey for an Open Source Project - Apache NuttX RTOS" (video)

Unified Checkout Experience Through Micro Frontend Architecture

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 13:15:00

Large retail systems today, much like Walmart, operate multiple types of checkout registers across various services — pharmacy, auto care, fuel stations, photo centers, and more. These checkout points are not just limited to traditional frontend registers for scanning and payment, but encompass a broad array of service-specific interfaces. As the breadth of services grows, retailers are often left managing fragmented checkout solutions. This fragmentation leads to inconsistent user experiences, higher training overhead for staff, and slower development cycles. The need for a unified checkout experience across microapps — one that abstracts underlying service complexity and presents a consistent interface to customers and associates — has never been more critical.

Creating a Distributed Computing Cluster for a Data Base Management System: Part 1

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 12:15:00

Ideas of creating a distributed computing cluster (DCC) for database management systems (DBMS) have been striking me for quite a long time. If simplified, the DCC software makes it possible to combine many servers into one super server (cluster), performing an even balancing of all queries between individual servers. In this case, everything will appear for the application running on the DCC as if it was running with one server and one database (DB). It will not be dispersed databases on distributed servers, but work as one virtual one. All network protocols, replication exchanges, and proxy redirections will be concealed inside the DCC. At the same time, all resources of distributed servers, in particular RAM and CPU time, will be utilized evenly and in an efficient fashion. For example, in a cloud data processing center (DPC), it is possible to take one physical super server and divide it into a number of virtual DBMS servers. But the reverse procedure was not possible until now, i.e., it is not possible to take a number of physical servers and merge them into a single virtual DBMS super server. In some specified sense, DCC is a technology that makes it possible to merge physical servers into one virtual DBMS super server.

Development of System Configuration Management: Summary and Reflections

Aggregated on: 2025-09-18 11:15:00

Series Overview This article is Part 4 of a multi-part series: "Development of system configuration management." The complete series:

Enable AWS Budget Notifications With SNS Using AWS CDK

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 19:14:56

Keeping track of AWS spend is very important. Especially since it’s so easy to create resources, you might forget to turn off an EC2 instance or container you started, or remove a CDK stack for a specific experiment. Costs can creep up fast if you don’t put guardrails in place. Recently, I had to set up budgets across multiple AWS accounts for my team. Along the way, I learned a few gotchas (especially around SNS and KMS policies) that weren’t immediately clear to me as I started out writing AWS CDK code. In this post, we’ll go through how to:

Building a Platform Abstraction for EKS Cluster Using Crossplane

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 18:14:56

Building on what we started earlier in an earlier article, here we’re going to learn how to extend our platform and create a platform abstraction for provisioning an AWS EKS cluster. EKS is AWS’s managed Kubernetes offering. Quick Refresher Crossplane is a Kubernetes CRD-based add-on that abstracts cloud implementations and lets us manage Infrastructure as code.

From Data Growth to Data Responsibility: Building Secure Data Systems in AWS

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 17:14:56

Enterprise data solutions are growing across data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouse, and hybrid platforms in cloud services. As the data grows exponentially across these services, it's the data practitioners' responsibility to secure the environment with secure guardrails and privacy boundaries. In this article, we will learn a framework for implementing security protocols in AWS and learn how to implement them across Redshift, Glue, DynamoDB, and Aurora database services.

Anything Rigid Is Not Sustainable: Why Flexibility Beats Dogma in Agile and Project Management

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 16:14:56

Rigid structures are not sustainable. The same is true in project management and organizational agility: anything rigid is not sustainable — whether it’s a process, a framework, or an architecture. From my experience in leading technology programs across industries, the learning and observation are clear: rigid approaches may deliver in the short term, but adaptability is a must for long-term sustainability.

Terraform Compact Function: Clean Up and Simplify Lists

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 15:14:56

In Terraform, many configurations are dynamic, and you may build a list using conditional expressions that return null when not applicable. If those null values are passed directly to a resource (for example, in security_group_ids or depends_on), they can cause validation errors. The compact() function ensures that only valid, non-null elements are included, helping prevent such runtime errors during the apply phase.

Development of System Configuration Management: Performance Considerations

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 14:14:56

Series Overview This article is Part 3 of a multi-part series: "Development of system configuration management." The complete series:

Beyond Retrieval: How Knowledge Graphs Supercharge RAG

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 13:14:56

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the factual accuracy and contextual relevance of large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to external data sources. RAG systems use semantic similarity to identify text relevant to a user query. However, they often fail to explain how the query and retrieved pieces of information are related, which limits their reasoning capability. Graph RAG addresses this limitation by leveraging knowledge graphs, which represent entities (nodes) and their relationships (edges) in a structured, machine-readable format. This framework enables AI systems to link related facts and draw coherent, explainable conclusions, moving closer to human-like reasoning (Hogan et al., 2021).

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Input Plugins for Developers (Part 6)

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 12:14:55

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

The AI FOMO Paradox

Aggregated on: 2025-09-17 11:14:55

TL; DR: AI FOMO — A Paradox AI FOMO comes from seeing everyone’s polished AI achievements while you see all your own experiments, failures, and confusion. The constant drumbeat of AI breakthroughs triggers legitimate anxiety for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Product Managers: “Am I falling behind? Will my role be diminished?”

How to Migrate from Java 8 to Java 17+ Using Amazon Q Developer

Aggregated on: 2025-09-16 19:14:55

Replatforming from Java 8 to the newer Java versions has proven to be a huge challenge due to potential compatibility issues and changes in language specifications. The Spring Framework, which provides a programming and configuration model for modern Java applications, has just released its latest major version, Spring Framework 6.2.10, and it requires a baseline of Java 17 or higher. Because of this, migrating from an older version like Java 8 would involve code modifications, which take considerable effort and rigorous testing. Before diving deep into version upgrades for Java applications, let us first discuss what Amazon Q developer is and how it helps developers with application modernization.

Implementing a Weekly Release Cycle for Mobile Apps

Aggregated on: 2025-09-16 18:14:55

Mobile app development has moved from occasional, significant updates to a point where users constantly expect new improvements. While weekly launches for mobile apps can be a substantial benefit, it’s not only about how fast you release. The goal is to keep improving over time, allowing teams to deliver value faster, repair errors faster, and maintain the user base without compromising quality. Still, making a weekly release model sustainable is not only about increasing work speed. It is all about changing the process of creating, testing, releasing, and monitoring your app. Big names in the app world, such as Instagram and Spotify, now release updates each week. This is not because they are more efficient in coding. They can do this because they have perfected a culture of rapid changes with no chaos.