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How to Protect Yourself From the Inevitable GenAI Crash

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 22:06:43

I had the dubious pleasure of living through the dot.com bubble, from the nascent early web in 1995 through the crash in 2000. It’s no wonder, therefore, that today’s generative AI (GenAI) bubble is giving me a serious case of déjà vu. Been there, done that, got the t-shirts to prove it. Now I’m older and wiser. So listen up, young ‘uns, and let me pass along some hard-won wisdom from the last millennium.

The Modern Era of Data Orchestration: From Data Fragmentation to Collaboration

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 21:06:43

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. Data engineering and software engineering have long been at odds, each with their own unique tools and best practices. A key differentiator has been the need for dedicated orchestration when building data products. In this article, we'll explore the role data orchestrators play and how recent trends in the industry may be bringing these two disciplines closer together than ever before.

Supporting Multiple Redis Databases With Infinispan Cache Aliases Enhancement

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 20:06:42

In Infinispan 15, we provided a large set of commands to make it possible to replace your Redis Server with Infinispan without changing your code. In this tutorial, you will learn how Infinispan cache aliases will help you replace your Redis Server with Infinispan for multiple Redis databases. Key takeaways: What are cache aliases and how to create caches with aliases or update existing ones Learn how Infinispan and Redis differ in data organization Support multiple databases in Infinispan with cache aliases when using the RESP protocol Supporting multiple Redis databases has been available since Infinispan 15.0 (the latest stable release at the time of this writing). However, Hot Rod, CLI, and Infinispan Console support is Tech Preview in Infinispan 15.1 (in development right now).

AI-Powered Flashcard Application With Next.js, Clerk, Firebase, Material UI, and LLaMA 3.1

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 19:06:42

Flashcards have long been used as an effective tool for learning by providing quick, repeatable questions that help users memorize facts or concepts. Traditionally, flashcards contain a question on one side and the answer on the other. The concept is simple, yet powerful for retention, whether you're learning languages, mathematics, or any subject. An AI-powered flashcard game takes this learning method to the next level. Rather than relying on static content, AI dynamically generates new questions and answers based on user input, learning patterns, and performance over time. This personalization makes the learning process more interactive and adaptive, providing questions that target specific areas where the user needs improvement.

Showing Long Animation Frames in Your DevTools

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 18:06:42

If you’re a web developer, you probably spend a fair amount of time working with Chrome DevTools. It’s one of the best tools out there for diagnosing and improving the performance of your web applications. You can use it to track loading times, optimize CSS and JavaScript, and inspect network activity. But there’s an important piece of performance data that DevTools doesn’t yet expose by default: Long Animation Frames (LoAFs). In this post, I’ll show you how to use the Performance API and Chrome’s extensibility features to expose LoAF data in DevTools. Along the way, I’ll explain what LoAFs are, why they’re crucial for web performance, and provide code snippets to help you track and debug them in your own projects.

Using Oracle Database 23AI for Generative AI RAG Implementation: Part 1

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 17:06:42

At the recent CloudWorld event, Oracle introduced Oracle Database 23c, its next-generation database, which incorporates AI capabilities through the addition of AI vector search to its converged database. This vector search feature allows businesses to run multimodal queries that integrate various data types, enhancing the usefulness of GenAI in business applications. With Oracle Database 23c, there’s no need for a separate database to store and query AI-driven data. By supporting vector storage alongside relational tables, graphs, and other data types, Oracle 23c becomes a powerful tool for developers building business applications, especially for semantic search needs. In this two-part blog series, we’ll explore the basics of vectors and embeddings, explain how the Oracle vector database works, and develop a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application to enhance a local LLM.

Ditch Your Local Setup: Develop Apps in the Cloud With Project IDX

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 16:06:42

Recent years have seen a rise in cloud-based IDEs and several options have emerged such as CodeSandBox, Replit, StackBlitz, and more. Cloud-based IDEs allow programming without the need to have a dedicated developer specification machine as they run in the browser directly. They provide complete freedom of writing software from anywhere and anytime. These IDEs have traditionally been great at creating showcase demos and POCs, and have their limitations. In August 2023, Google launched its own cloud-based IDE known as Project IDX. Project IDX provides a complete development environment for developing multi-platform applications. Benefits of Project IDX Project IDX has several key benefits over other major cloud-based IDEs:

Digitalization of Airport and Airlines With IoT and Data Streaming Using Kafka and Flink

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 15:06:42

The digitalization of airports faces challenges such as integrating diverse legacy systems, ensuring cybersecurity, and managing the vast amounts of data generated in real time. The vision for a digitalized airport includes seamless passenger experiences, optimized operations, consistent integration with airlines and retail stores, and enhanced security through the use of advanced technologies like IoT, AI, and real-time data analytics. This blog post shows the relevance of data streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink in the aviation industry to enable data-driven business process automation and innovation while modernizing the IT infrastructure with cloud-native hybrid cloud architecture. Schiphol Group operating Amsterdam Airport shows a few real-world deployments. The Digitalization of Airports and the Aviation Industry Digitalization transforms airport operations and improves the experience of employees and passengers. It affects various aspects of airport operations, passenger experiences, and overall efficiency.

Optimizing Vector Search Performance With Elasticsearch

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 14:06:42

In an era characterized by an exponential increase in data generation, organizations must effectively leverage this wealth of information to maintain their competitive edge. Efficiently searching and analyzing customer data — such as identifying user preferences for movie recommendations or sentiment analysis — plays a crucial role in driving informed decision-making and enhancing user experiences. For instance, a streaming service can employ vector search to recommend films tailored to individual viewing histories and ratings, while a retail brand can analyze customer sentiments to fine-tune marketing strategies. As data engineers, we are tasked with implementing these sophisticated solutions, ensuring organizations can derive actionable insights from vast datasets. This article explores the intricacies of vector search using Elasticsearch, focusing on effective techniques and best practices to optimize performance. By examining case studies on image retrieval for personalized marketing and text analysis for customer sentiment clustering, we demonstrate how optimizing vector search can lead to improved customer interactions and significant business growth.

High-Performance Reactive REST API and Reactive DB Connection Using Java Spring Boot WebFlux R2DBC Example

Aggregated on: 2024-11-04 13:06:42

Reactive Programming Reactive programming is a programming paradigm that manages asynchronous data streams and automatically propagates changes, enabling systems to react to events in real time. It’s useful for creating responsive APIs and event-driven applications, often applied in UI updates, data streams, and real-time systems. WebFlux WebFlux is designed for applications with high concurrency needs. It leverages Project Reactor and Reactive Streams, enabling it to handle a large number of requests concurrently with minimal resource usage.

What the CrowdStrike Crash Exposed About the Future of Software Testing

Aggregated on: 2024-11-01 21:51:41

When users worldwide woke up to their Windows devices inoperable, they feared they had fallen victim to the largest cyber-attack ever seen. But it wasn't an attack — their devices were down from a faulty CrowdStrike update. This $5 billion mistake could have been avoided with proper testing and quality assurance. With companies striving to update and publish software rapidly, the learnings from this global panic stemming from one endpoint security software update are telling. The ramifications of the CrowdStrike outage showcase the difficulties in software development today. As our digital world becomes increasingly complex and software evolves rapidly, ensuring high-quality and reliable systems becomes progressively more difficult. Even practiced industry titans can fail to meet quality standards. Therefore, it is crucial to have efficient testing strategies in place.

Smart Routing Using AI for Efficient Logistics and Green Solutions

Aggregated on: 2024-11-01 18:51:40

The growing demand for efficient logistics and the pressing need for environmental sustainability requires innovative solutions to optimize transportation routes and minimize greenhouse gas emissions. This study explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing logistics efficiency and reducing environmental impact by applying various regression models to predict travel times and emissions using real-world industrial logistics datasets. Key factors considered include vehicle types, traffic conditions, weather, distance, fuel consumption, and package attributes. The study employs a range of machine learning models, including Linear Regression, Ridge and Lasso Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, Gaussian Processes, and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) Regressors. It also integrates advanced deep learning techniques like LSTM, RNN, CNN, and time series forecasting using ARIMA. The models are evaluated using metrics such as Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), R-squared (R²), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), with hyperparameter tuning to optimize performance.

Data Governance Essentials: Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage (Part 5)

Aggregated on: 2024-11-01 16:51:40

What Is Data Governance, and How Do Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage Strengthen It? Data governance is a framework that is developed through the collaboration of individuals with various roles and responsibilities. This framework aims to establish processes, policies, procedures, standards, and metrics that help organizations achieve their goals. These goals include providing reliable data for business operations, setting accountability and authoritativeness, developing accurate analytics to assess performance, complying with regulatory requirements, safeguarding data, ensuring data privacy, and supporting the data management lifecycle. In the field of data governance, business glossaries, data catalogs, and data lineage are essential for effectively managing data across an organization. With an increase in data, finding the right information has become more challenging. Simultaneously, there are also more rules and regulations than ever before. Here's a brief overview of each:

Monitoring Kubernetes Service Topology Changes in Real-Time

Aggregated on: 2024-11-01 13:51:40

Horizontally scalable data stores like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and CockroachDB distribute their data across multiple nodes using techniques like consistent hashing. As nodes are added or removed, the data is reshuffled to ensure that the load is spread evenly across the new set of nodes. When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a clustered system, planning the changes at times of low load to minimize disruption to production workloads.

How to Identify Bottlenecks and Increase Copy Activity Throughput in Azure Data Factory

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 21:51:40

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-native ETL tool to process data seamlessly across different sources and sinks. Copy activity is mostly used to copy data from one source to another source. While copying data between two different sources, we need to make sure that the activity is completed in a timely manner to meet business needs and process data within the service level agreement.

4 Essential Strategies for Enhancing Your Application Security Posture

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 19:51:40

The rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape presents an array of challenges for businesses of all sizes across all industries. The constant emergence of new cyber threats, including those now powered by AI, is overwhelming current security models. A 2023 study by the Ponemon Institute found that organizations receive an average of 22,111 security alerts per week. This deluge of alerts, many of which are false positives, is preventing teams from effectively prioritizing and dealing with potential threats. A holistic approach to addressing this problem is what Gartner calls Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). The strategies of ASPM address the limitations of traditional AppSec approaches using automation, integration, and the strategic use of open-source tools. Adopting the recommended strategies of ASPM can enable companies to fortify software applications throughout their lifecycle.

Platform Engineering Essentials

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 17:51:40

Platform engineering aims to enhance the developer experience through the establishment of secure environments, automated and self-service tools, and streamlined workflows. However, as technology and cyber threats continue to evolve, the integration of automation, security, and AI will be vital to the success of these platforms. In this Refcard, you will learn more about the value of platform engineering, including best practices, tools, core capabilities, how to align business goals, and more.

Boosting Efficiency: Implementing Natural Language Processing With AWS RDS Using CloudFormation

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 17:51:40

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is revolutionizing how organizations manage data, enabling the automation of text-intensive tasks such as analyzing customer feedback, monitoring sentiment, and recognizing entities. NLP can yield significant insights from extensive datasets when integrated with AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) for efficient data storage and retrieval. This article outlines the comprehensive configuration of an NLP-enabled AWS RDS environment utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates (CFT), accompanied by an in-depth cost and performance analysis to illustrate the benefits of NLP. Advantages of Implementing NLP NLP empowers organizations to do the following:

Exploring AI-Powered Web Development: OpenAI, Node.js, and Dynamic UI Creation

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 15:36:40

In the rapidly advancing world of web development, artificial intelligence (AI) is paving the way for new levels of creativity and efficiency. This article takes a deep dive into the exciting synergy between OpenAI's robust API, the flexibility of Node.js, and the possibilities for creating dynamic user interfaces. By examining how these technologies work together, we'll uncover how they can transform our approach to both web development and UI development. Dynamic UI Creation Dynamic UI Creation involves generating user interfaces that can adapt dynamically based on factors like user input, data, or context. In AI-driven UI generation, this concept is elevated by using artificial intelligence to automatically create or modify UI elements.

Faster Startup With Spring Boot 3.2 and CRaC, Part 2

Aggregated on: 2024-10-31 13:36:40

This is the second part of the blog series “Faster Startup With Spring Boot 3.2 and CRaC," where we will learn how to warm up a Spring Boot application before the checkpoint is taken and how to provide configuration at runtime when the application is restarted from the checkpoint. Overview In the previous blog post, we learned how to use CRaC to start Spring Boot applications ten times faster using automatic checkpoints provided by Spring Boot 3.2. It, however, came with two significant drawbacks:

Java Is Greener on Arm

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 22:21:39

Even those not particularly interested in computer technology have heard of microprocessor architectures. This is especially true with the recent news that Qualcomm is rumored to be examining the possibility of acquiring various parts of Intel and Uber is partnering with Ampere Computing. Hardware and software are evolving in parallel, and combining the best of modern software development with the latest Arm hardware can yield impressive performance, cost, and efficiency results.

Multimodal RAG Is Not Scary, Ghosts Are Scary

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 21:21:39

I just gave a talk at All Things Open and it is hard to believe that Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) now seems like it has been a technique that we have been doing for years. There is a good reason for that, as over the last two years it has exploded in depth and breadth as the utility of RAG is boundless. The ability to improve the results of generated results from large language models is constantly improving as variations, improvements, and new paradigms are pushing things forward.

How to Get Plain Text From Common Documents in Java

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 20:21:39

In this article, we’ll learn how to extract plain text strings from a few of the most common file types (PDF, DOCX, XSLX, PPTX) we can expect to deal with on a day-to-day basis as programmers in an enterprise environment. We’ll briefly review when to use plain text extraction methods over Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text extraction methods, and we’ll discuss some use cases for retrieving plain text in a real-world scenario. Ultimately, we’ll cover a few open-source APIs that are perfect for handling plain text extraction on a one-off basis, at the end we’ll demonstrate a proprietary API that saves time by automatically detecting each different file type before extracting plain text content.

Implementing LSM Trees in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 19:21:39

Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures. In this guide, we’ll walk through the implementation of an LSM tree in Golang, discuss features such as Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), block compression, and BloomFilters, and compare it with more traditional key-value storage systems and indexing strategies. We’ll also dive deeper into SSTables, MemTables, and compaction strategies for optimizing performance in high-load environments. LSM Tree Overview An LSM tree works by splitting data between an in-memory component and an on-disk component:

Challenges and Ethical Considerations of AI in Team Management

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 18:21:39

Having spent years in the SaaS world, I've seen how AI is transforming team management. But let's be honest — it's not all smooth sailing. There are real challenges and ethical dilemmas we need to unpack. So, let’s cut through the noise and get into what it really means to bring AI into the mix for managing teams. The Double-Edged Sword of Efficiency First things first: AI is a powerhouse when it comes to efficiency. It can crunch numbers, analyze patterns, and make predictions faster than any human ever could. Sounds great, right? Well, yes and no.

Navigating API Challenges in Kubernetes

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Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration. Although APIs are a key part of most architectures, integrating API management directly into this ecosystem requires careful consideration and significant effort. Traditional API management solutions often struggle to cope with the dynamic, distributed nature of Kubernetes. This article explores these challenges, discusses solution paths, shares best practices, and proposes a reference architecture for Kubernetes-native API management. The Complexities of API Management in Kubernetes Kubernetes is a robust platform for managing containerized applications, offering self-healing, load balancing, and seamless scaling across distributed environments. This makes it ideal for microservices, especially in large, complex infrastructures where declarative configurations and automation are key. According to a 2023 CNCF survey, 84% of organizations are adopting or evaluating Kubernetes, highlighting the growing demand for Kubernetes-native API management to improve scalability and control in cloud native environments. However, API management within Kubernetes brings its own complexities. Key tasks like routing, rate limiting, authentication, authorization, and monitoring must align with the Kubernetes architecture, often involving multiple components like ingress controllers (for external traffic) and service meshes (for internal communications). The overlap between these components raises questions about when and how to use them effectively in API management. While service meshes handle internal traffic security well, additional layers of API management may be needed to manage external access, such as authentication, rate limiting, and partner access controls.

Compliance Automated Standard Solution (COMPASS), Part 7: Compliance-to-Policy for IT Operation Policies Using Auditree

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 16:21:39

(Note: A list of links for all articles in this series can be found at the conclusion of this article.) In Part 4 of this multi-part series on continuous compliance, we presented designs for Compliance Policy Administration Centers (CPAC) which are typically part of larger platforms known in the industry under various names such as Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), or Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), bundled into those platforms to facilitate the management of the compliance artifacts connecting the Regulatory Policies expressed programmatically as Compliance-as-Code with technical policies implemented as Policy-as-Code. The separation of Compliance-as-Code and Policy-as-Code is purposeful, as different personas (see Part 1) need to independently manage their respective responsibilities according to their expertise; e.g., compliance controls and parameters selection, crosswalks mapping across regulations for compliance and auditor experts, or runtime evidence collectors and checks implementation for code developers or security focals.

Hot Class Reload in Java: A Webpack HMR-Like Experience for Java Developers

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In the world of software development, time is everything. Every developer knows the frustration of waiting for a full application restart just to see a small change take effect. Java developers, in particular, have long dealt with this issue. But what if you didn’t have to stop and restart every time you updated a class? Enter Hot Class Reload (HCR) in Java — a technique that can keep you in the flow, reloading classes on the fly, much like Hot Module Reload (HMR) does in JavaScript. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to implement HCR and integrate it into your Java development workflow. By the end, you’ll have a powerful new tool to reduce those long, unproductive restart times.

How to Create a Pokémon Breeding Gaming Calculator Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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Gaming calculators can provide quick and useful features for gamers, such as calculating stats, damage, or compatibility between in-game elements. In this guide, I'll walk you through creating a simple, yet interactive Pokémon Breeding Calculator using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This project will fetch data from an API and determine if two Pokémon can breed based on their egg groups. You can see a live version of this calculator on Game On Trend (Pokemon Breeding Calculator).

Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Unleashing the Power of Conversational AI for Text-to-SQL

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 13:21:39

Conversational AI Conversational AI refers to technologies that enable humans to interact with machines using natural language, either through text or voice. This includes chatbots, voice assistants, and other types of conversational interfaces. Conversational AI for SQL refers to natural language interfaces that enable users to interact with databases using everyday language instead of writing SQL code. This technology allows non-technical users to query and analyze data without requiring extensive SQL knowledge.

Beginners Guide to SwiftUI State Management

Aggregated on: 2024-10-30 12:21:39

State management is a fundamental concept in app development that involves tracking and updating data that influences the user interface. In SwiftUI, this is particularly crucial due to its declarative nature. To effectively leverage SwiftUI’s capabilities, it’s essential to grasp the various approaches to state management and why they are necessary. This article will delve into the intricacies of state management in SwiftUI. We’ll explore different strategies that programmers can employ to utilize Apple’s powerful state management APIs. Before diving into SwiftUI-specific techniques, let’s examine the broader context of UI programming and understand why state management is indispensable.

Inside the World of Data Centers

Aggregated on: 2024-10-29 22:21:39

The computing requirements of algorithms have increased dramatically over the past two decades. In particular, machine learning (ML) algorithms have experienced a growth in computing resource demand that exceeds Moore’s Law. While Moore's Law predicts a doubling of processing power every two years, since 2012, ML algorithms have been doubling in computational demands every 3-4 months (“AI and Compute,” 2018). As a result, running these algorithms on a single computer is nearly impossible or prohibitively expensive. A more practical approach is to break down these algorithms into smaller chunks, and then use many commodity computers to run these smaller blocks. To illustrate this, imagine we are training a machine learning model on a dataset with 1 million entries. Instead of using one computer to process the entire dataset, we could break it into 10 blocks of 100K entries each. We would then use 10 computers, each running the training algorithm on the subset of 100K entries. (Note: For simplicity, I've omitted the step of combining the results from these machines, as it’s beyond the scope of this article.)

Increase Model Flexibility and ROI for GenAI App Delivery With Kubernetes

Aggregated on: 2024-10-29 21:21:39

As with past technology adoption journeys, initial experimentation costs eventually shift to a focus on ROI. In a recent post on X, Andrew Ng extensively discussed GenAI model pricing reductions. This is great news, since GenAI models are crucial for powering the latest generation of AI applications. However, model swapping is also emerging as both an innovation enabler, and a cost saving strategy, for deploying these applications. Even if you've already standardized on a specific model for your applications with reasonable costs, you might want to explore the added benefits of a multiple model approach facilitated by Kubernetes. A Multiple Model Approach to GenAI A multiple model operating approach enables developers to use the most up-to-date GenAI models throughout the lifecycle of an application. By operating in a continuous upgrade approach for GenAI models, developers can harness the specific strengths of each model as they shift over time. In addition, the introduction of specialized, or purpose-built models, enables applications to be tested and refined for optimal accuracy, performance and cost.

Front End Debugging, Part 1: Not Just Console Log

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As a Java developer, most of my focus is on the backend side of debugging. Front-end debugging poses different challenges and has sophisticated tools of its own. Unfortunately, print-based debugging has become the norm in the front-end. To be fair, it makes more sense there as the cycles are different and the problem is always a single-user problem. But even if you choose to use Console.log, there’s a lot of nuance to pick up there. Instant Debugging With the debugger Keyword A cool, yet powerful tool in JavaScript is the debugger keyword. Instead of simply printing a stack trace, we can use this keyword to launch the debugger directly at the line of interest. That is a fantastic tool that instantly brings your attention to a bug. I often use it in my debug builds of the front end instead of just printing an error log.

How to Enhance the Performance of .NET Core Applications for Large Responses

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Problem Statement Our API/application uses the Newtonsoft.Json serializer on .NET Core 3 or above, and our response payloads are larger in size. How do we use the .NET code properties and settings to improve API performance? Possible Case Where You Could Have Started Facing the Performance Issue This issue could have started when you upgraded your API to .NET Core 3.0 or above with the Newtonsoft.Json serializer, or when you created your API with .NET Core 3 or above and using the Newtonsoft.Json serializer.

Enhance User Experience With a Formatted Credit Card Input Field

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In this article, I will guide you on how to create a credit card input by extending existing ZK components. Moreover, I'll apply a customized ZK JavaScript widget to format the card numbers in groups of four digits, improving readability and user experience. Additionally, we'll integrate a custom JavaScript widget to ensure that only numeric input is accepted. This guide is ideal for web developers needing a dedicated input field for credit card information. Using the ZK UI Framework as an example, I’ll walk you through creating a well-structured, readable credit card input box.

Dapr and Service Meshes: Better Together

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There are many reasons why Kubernetes is a popular container runtime platform for distributed applications. One of these reasons is the portability and flexibility that it provides to IT architects. However, the difficulties of service discovery, infrastructure reliability, and security are known challenges that result from these benefits. From challenges, opportunities are created, and many tools have risen to mitigate common problems faced by teams that benefit from containerized applications on Kubernetes. A service mesh is a pattern that aims to mitigate some of these challenges when architecting an application on Kubernetes. By providing a dedicated service layer to facilitate service discovery and how applications share information with each other, they provide security, tracing, monitoring, and traffic control.

Unifying SecOps and Observability for Enhanced Cloud Security in Azure

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As someone who has worked in various areas of Azure for almost a decade, I have witnessed its constant evolution and the rise of increasingly sophisticated security risks. This calls for a unified approach to modern cloud security, where integrating Security Operations, aka "SecOps," into observability becomes essential. SecOps bridges the gap between security and operations, ensuring real-time threat detection, mitigation, and compliance. With the growing value and vulnerability of data, SecOps is crucial in safeguarding applications, preventing unauthorized access, and maintaining the integrity of sensitive information. Why SecOps Is Important In today’s cloud-centric environment, applications handle vast amounts of sensitive data, making SecOps critical to protect this information from breaches, unauthorized access, and cyber threats. SecOps ensures that every facet of security — from encryption to access control — is built into the operational workflow. Incorporating SecOps into the operations workstream guarantees that security is not an afterthought, but a continuous process that safeguards both the data and the integrity of business applications.

Top Takeaways From Devoxx Belgium 2024

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In October 2024, I visited Devoxx Belgium and again it was an awesome event! I learned a lot and received quite some information which I do not want to withhold from you. In this blog, you can find my takeaways from Devoxx Belgium 2024! Introduction Devoxx Belgium is the largest Java conference in Europe. This year, it was already the 21st edition. As always, Devoxx is being held in the fantastic theatres of Kinepolis Antwerp. Each year, there is a rush on the tickets. Tickets are released in several batches, so if you did not have a ticket during the first batch, you will get another chance.

Harnessing the Power of Distributed Databases on Kubernetes

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Cloud-native technologies have ushered in a new era of database scalability and resilience requirements. To meet this demand, enterprises across multiple industries, from finance to retail, to healthcare, are turning to distributed databases to safely and effectively store data in multiple locations. Distributed databases provide consistency across availability zones and regions in the cloud, but some enterprises still question whether they should run their distributed database in Kubernetes.

AWS Redshift Data Sharing: Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Analytics

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What Is AWS Redshift Data Sharing? As a data engineer, most of my time will be spent constructing data pipelines from source systems to data lakes, databases, and warehouses. In the cloud world, the databases/warehouses are usually isolated in a private subnet in a VPC, and sharing the data will be a challenge. One of the pain points is to have this data distributed to several teams in the organization. Data can be shared by exporting into files, but this increases the concerns of security, data duplication, and maintenance of these export pipelines. I was delighted to find that we have a utility in AWS Redshift that will let you share the data between two Redshift clusters without building any ETL infrastructure. AWS Redshift data sharing allows you to securely share live, read-only data between different Redshift clusters within or across AWS accounts and regions. It eliminates the need for data duplication and helps multiple stakeholders access the same dataset, allowing different departments, teams, or external partners to collaborate and derive insights from shared data. By sharing specific databases, schemas, tables, or views from the Producer Cluster to one or more Consumer Clusters, organizations can significantly reduce the complexity of their data pipelines.

How to Copy Text to Clipboard Using React.js

Aggregated on: 2024-10-29 12:21:39

In this article, we will learn how to copy text to Clipboard using React.js. Using this, we can copy any text to the clipboard and paste it anywhere. You can check my previous articles, in which we discussed React.js and its basic components from the below-mentioned links.

Filtering Java Collections via Annotation-Driven Introspection

Aggregated on: 2024-10-28 22:21:38

Since Java 8, the programming workload of iterating over collections and selecting a subcollection (filtering) based on defined constraints (predicates) has been considerably simplified using the new Stream API. Despite this new feature, some scenarios can still overwhelm developers by requiring them to implement a significant amount of very specific code to meet the filtering conditions. A common example in enterprise systems is the need to filter: ". . . a collection where each object is an element of a large graph and the attributes to be considered in the filters belong to distinct objects."

So, You Want a Career in DevOps? Here's Where to Begin

Aggregated on: 2024-10-28 21:21:38

Once during an interview for a senior DevOps position, I had an amusing experience. I had covered everything the interviewer expected, anticipating their questions, when boredom suddenly swooped in. To switch things up, I handed a marker to the two engineers at the interview who were assessing my knowledge and asked them to explain how their DevOps processes were organized. As they walked me through the setup, I started asking why certain decisions were made. The engineers and the interviewer were surprised but raised no objections. I got that job. Yet, the lesson between the lines is that there are no ready-made templates for job interviews, and unexpected twists are inevitable — especially for a DevOps position.

Lifecycle Microservices With GenAI Tools

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Lifecycle Development With AI We have seen a huge shift in the way developers and consultants are using Generative AI (GenAI) tools to create working microservices. A new tool named WebGenAI begins the process with a simple prompt to create a complete API microservice with a running React-Admin user interface and has the ability to iterate and add new features or even logic. WebGenAI is built on top of the existing Python open-source framework ApiLogicServer. The entire project can be downloaded as runnable Python code or a Docker container to use locally. It also pushes each iteration to GitHub and you can run the application using Codespaces. This is usually where the beginning of the full microservice lifecycle starts.

Refining Automated Testing: Balancing Speed and Reliability in Modern Test Suites

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Traditionally, automated tests are classified as unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. This classification is based on the scope of a test, though the distinction between the different types is not always clear. Unit tests have a narrow scope and usually exercise a single method or class. Integration tests validate the interaction between different components. End-to-end tests often exercise complete user flows on a platform or web application, involving several disparate systems. As a codebase grows, slow and flaky tests start affecting developer productivity. It’s instructive to examine test suites from another dimension — speed and determinism.

How to Repair Corrupt MySQL Database Tables Step-by-Step

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In the modern world, companies are not solely dependent on a specific database server platform. There are many database platforms available that are adequate to handle moderate workloads and client requirements of high availability and disaster recovery. MySQL is one of those database platforms which provides a lot of features and high performance. Just like other RDBMS, MySQL is also prone to database and table corruption. The recent outage caused by Microsoft and CrowdStrike also impacted MySQL database servers. Due to operating system failures, the tables of the database or entire databases get corrupted.

Kumologica Container Inside AWS ECS Fargate

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We have seen multiple examples and use cases of building a low code API using Kumologica and running it on AWS lambda and on Azure function. In this article, we will be taking through the build and deployment of a simple hello world service Docker container inside AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate. Photo by Chris Linnett Architecture Based on the design defined in the diagram (Figure 1), we will be building Kumologica applications as a Docker container. Once the Docker image is ready, we will push it into the AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). ECR holds all the Docker images. The Elastic Container Service is an AWS container management platform. The workload availability, scaling, and network are managed by ECS. In order to deploy a workload to ECS, an ECS task definition needs to be created, which will define the Docker image that needs to be used, the name of the service, and the type of launch. In this case, we will be choosing the launch type as Fargate.

How to Design Event Streams, Part 1

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Event streaming is becoming increasingly common in the world today. An event is a single piece of data that describes, as a snapshot in time, something important that happened in your business. We record that data to an event stream (typically using an Apache Kafka topic), which provides the basis for other applications and business processes to respond and react accordingly — also known as event-driven architecture (EDA). Event-driven architectures (EDA) rely extensively on events. To be successful with EDA, you’ll need to know how to properly design your events because this will significantly affect not only what you can do today, but also tomorrow.

Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Optimization Techniques Using GitHub Actions

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are crucial for modern software development. This article explores advanced techniques to optimize these pipelines, enhancing efficiency and reliability for enterprise-level operations. Parallelization Using Matrix Builds GitHub Actions CI tests using the matrix strategy to run jobs in parallel: