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Porting From Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering

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The Problem With the brew upgrade Command By default, the brew upgrade command updates every formula (terminal utility or library). It also updates every cask (GUI application) it manages. All are upgraded to the latest version — major, minor, and patch. That’s convenient when you want the newest features, but disruptive when you only want quiet patch-level fixes. Last week, I solved this in Perl with brew-patch-upgrade.pl, a script that parsed brew upgrade’s JSON output, compared semantic versions, and upgraded only when the patch number changed. It worked, but it also reminded me how much Perl leans on implicit structures and runtime flexibility.

Centralized Configuration Management With Consul

Aggregated on: 2025-10-15 19:25:49

What Is Centralized Configuration? In modern microservice architectures, multiple applications often share common configuration data (e.g., database settings). These might be multiple instances of the same service or entirely different services. Regardless of the service behavior, instead of maintaining configuration at the service level, we can centralize it in one place and distribute it across all services. HashiCorp Consul provides a solution for this. Consul config distribution

Building a Fault-Tolerant Microservices Architecture With Kubernetes, gRPC, and Circuit Breakers

Aggregated on: 2025-10-15 18:25:48

Over the last decade, microservice architectures have become commonplace when designing scalable, maintainable, and independently deployable applications. Breaking down a system into multiple, domain-focused services, development squads can quickly develop, have varying technology stacks per service, and independently scale an application's constituent pieces. But this flexibility has its cost: operational complexity and failure propagation. Unlike monoliths, whose failures may be localized to one runtime, microservices communicate over networks. Each service-to-service invocation creates a possibility of latency, partial failure, or total unavailability. In a critical dependency, when this occurs, it causes cascading failures — where one service's downtime propagates through the system, ruining the user experience or even causing complete outages.

Why Domain-Driven Design Is Still Essential in Modern Software Development

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There’s no doubt that software has become the invisible infrastructure of our modern world. Over a decade ago, Forbes published a prophetic article titled “Now Every Company Is a Software Company.” At the time, that sounded bold — today, it feels like common sense. Whether in banking, healthcare, logistics, or agriculture, software has moved from the background to the core of business strategy. This means that every company, regardless of industry, is now a software-driven organization. Success no longer depends only on market reach or physical infrastructure but also on how effectively a business translates its goals into code. In other words, the quality of your software often determines the quality of your company’s decisions, processes, and customer experience.

Python Development With Asynchronous SQLite and PostgreSQL

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After years of working from the comfort of Python and Django, I moved to the wild asynchronous world of FastAPI to improve latency in web-based AI applications. I started with FastAPI and built an open-source stack called FastOpp, which adds command-line and web tools similar to Django. Initially, things went smoothly using SQLite and aiosqlite to add AsyncIO to SQLite. I used SQLAlchemy as my Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and Alembic as the database migration tool. Everything seemed to work easily, so I added a Python script to make things similar to Django’s migrate.py.

Distributed Locking in Cloud-Native Applications: Ensuring Consistency Across Multiple Instances

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Overview I am sure that most of us may have used some kind of locking during development, or may have faced issues of incorrect results in some states that are difficult to reproduce. Things are not that complex when we need to manage them within the process or even multiple processes, but on the same machine. It is also very common these days that most of us are involved in making cloud-native applications/services, where there are multiple instances of the service[s], either due to high availability/load balancing. In case of multiple instances of service[s], things become trickier when you face a situation where you need to make sure that certain operations must be performed in a synchronized manner, and it's not about multiple threads/processes but multiple pods/nodes in a native environment.

The Era of AI-First Backends: What Happens When APIs Become Contextualized Through LLMs?

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Introduction: What Happens When APIs Start Thinking? Wondered what your backend might "think" about? Up until now, we have viewed LLMs (e.g., OpenAI's GPT series) as a code assistant or a chatbot. However, behind the scenes of those experiences is something that can take things to a much more impactful level: an AI-first backend experience. In this type of environment, APIs do not simply follow the pre-packaged flow, http status codes, or utility functions of a backend. Instead, they think, adapt, and develop logic dynamically at runtime based on LLMs. Imagine the API you are building does not adhere to the rigid flow of a flowchart or the meticulously precise steps of an HTTP post or get setup within your functionality. Rather, it responds and adapts logic based on the tone of the user, the prosody of the interaction, or state of the world (trends and behaviors at the time). Sounds like science fiction? Not anymore. Let's unpack how this works, why it will change the way you think about your applications, and how you can "test" it out today.

Types of Web 3 APIs

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An API (Application package interface) is a software tool that enables researchers and developers to access some third-party data and functionality within a main software. Usually, it’s a collection of software commands that act as an interface to an external database. Web 3 APIs act as translators, enabling applications to interact with features like smart contracts and on-chain data, empowering you to harness the power of Web3 without diving deep into technical complexities. Various API categories —REST, SOAP, RPC, and WebSocket— offer unique strengths tailored to different use cases:

Indexing Across Data Models: From Tables to Documents to Text

Aggregated on: 2025-10-15 12:25:48

Every modern software application relies on a database to persist and manage its data. The choice of database technology is largely influenced by the application’s data model and its read and write throughput. For large datasets, query efficiency is critical. An inefficient query that works on a small dataset can quickly turn into a performance bottleneck when scaled to hundreds of thousands or millions of data points. While query optimization helps, it alone cannot guarantee high throughput. Factors such as data modeling, normalization, partitioning strategies, indexing, and even hardware resources all play a role in determining how quickly a system can serve reads and process writes.

Beyond Secrets Manager: Designing Zero-Retention Secrets in AWS With Ephemeral Access Patterns

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Secrets management in AWS has traditionally relied on long-lived secrets stored in Secrets Manager or Parameter Store. But as attack surfaces grow and threat actors become faster at exploiting exposed credentials, even rotated secrets begin to look like liabilities. The future of security in AWS leans toward ephemeral access, where credentials are generated just-in-time, scoped to the minimum needed permission, and vanish as soon as they are no longer needed. This article explores how to build a zero-retention secrets architecture in AWS, one that minimizes persistent secrets and instead leverages IAM roles, STS, session policies, and Lambda-based brokers. No Vault, no standing tokens, just-in-time, context-aware access.

Senior Developers, What to Read Next?

Aggregated on: 2025-10-14 19:10:48

Recently, one of my best friends, who is, in the meantime, one of the smartest developers I have the luck to know, asked me what book he should read next to further develop his skills. It took me some time to gather my thoughts, and it might be useful for others, too. Spoiler alert: I could not find a single book that I would say is the one to read as a senior developer. Instead, I summarized the books that I found good for one reason or another. As the summary also declared, this is a subjective list; feel free to agree or disagree with my choices, as well as feel free to leave a comment or contact me in any other way to share your thoughts.

Agentic AI: Why Your Copilot Is About to Become Your Coworker

Aggregated on: 2025-10-14 18:10:48

You've spent the last two years playing with ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and various AI assistants. You ask questions, they answer. You request code, they generate it. But here's what's changing in 2025: AI is about to stop waiting for your instructions and start completing entire workflows autonomously. Welcome to the age of agentic AI — and it's going to fundamentally change how software gets built, deployed, and maintained.

Where Stale Data Hides Inside Your Architecture (and How to Spot It)

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Every system collects stale data over time — that part is obvious. What’s less obvious is how much of it your platform will accumulate and, more importantly, whether it builds up in places it never should. That’s no longer just an operational issue but an architectural one. In my experience, I’ve often found stale data hiding in corners nobody thinks about. On the surface, they look harmless, but over time, they start shaping system behavior in ways that are hard to ignore. And it’s not just a rare edge case: studies show that, on average, more than half of all organizational data ends up stale. That means the risks are not occasional but systemic, quietly spreading across critical parts of the platform.

CNCF Triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86

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The Challenge Developing open-source software for deployment on Arm64 architecture requires a robust continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment. Yet, there has historically been a disparity between the levels of support for Arm64 and traditional x86 processor architectures, with Arm64 usually at a disadvantage. Developers of infrastructure components for multiple architectures have certain expectations of their work environments: Consistency of the tools and methods they use across platforms, so they don’t have to adopt different development procedures just to adopt a less prevalent platform. Performance from their platforms and support mechanisms, so their deployment schemes don’t suffer from speed deficiency when they choose to support multiple platforms. Testing coverage so the very same tests for efficiency, compliance, and security apply to all platforms simultaneously and without substantial differentiation. Maintainability, enabling developers to automate their integration and redevelopment processes so they apply to all platforms without alteration. Product managers for these same components have these same requirements, plus at least two more:

Advanced Snowflake SQL for Data Engineering Analytics

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Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform known for its scalability, security, and excellent SQL engine, making it ideal for modern analytics workloads. Here in this article I made an attempt to deep dive into advanced SQL queries for online retail analytics, using Snowflake’s capabilities to have insights for trend analysis, customer segmentation, and user journey mapping with seven practical queries, each with a query flow, BI visualization, a system architecture diagram, and sample inputs/outputs based on a sample online retail dataset.

Our Path to Better Certificate Management With Vault and FreeIPA

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Managing public key infrastructure (PKI) is challenging, especially in dynamic, cloud-native environments. In the “good old days,” you could create a virtual machine, place a certificate on it, and forget about it for a couple of years (or at least until the certificate expired). But as modern infrastructure has evolved, a more automated and scalable approach is needed. In this article, we’ll explore how to configure HashiCorp Vault as a subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) under FreeIPA, how to request certificates, and build a certificate chain trusted by any host in your infrastructure.

Inside Microsoft Fabric: How Data Agents, Copilot Studio, and Real-Time Intelligence Power the AI-Driven Enterprise

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Microsoft Fabric has been everywhere since its preview in 2023. From the rapid growth of features to rapid adoption, what began as a unified data platform is now a full-stack ecosystem. For an experienced Power BI user, Fabric will be both familiar and upgraded, even complex at that. The learning curve is steep but justified by the payoff. BI teams are enabled to move beyond dashboards to orchestration, governance, and scalability of analytics. Business intelligence in Fabric is not just about mastering a single tool anymore, it is about mastering a suite of interconnected tools and technologies. From Delta Lake architecture and OneLake semantics to streaming pipelines, SQL endpoints, and choosing between DirectLake/Import modes, the landscape demands fluency across the entire platform. In this article, we are going to explore how Fabric’s AI agents ecosystem works in practice by primarily focusing on the following topics:

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

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Introduction - Making AI Better. In my previous article, I discussed why making AI faster, better, and cheaper is a critical need today. And I introduced my aim to draw from real-world experiences to discuss doing so I also shared a deep dive into the main challenges and strategies to make AI Faster, while bringing out three key perspectives: End Users, AI Developers, and Businesses. In this article, I will focus on and take a deep dive into the second pillar — Making AI Better.

A Fresh Look at Optimizing Apache Spark Programs

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I have spent countless hours debugging slow Spark jobs, and it almost always comes down to a handful of common pitfalls. Apache Spark is a powerful distributed processing engine, but getting top performance requires more than just running your code on a cluster. Even with Spark’s built-in Catalyst optimizer and Tungsten execution engine, a poorly written or configured Spark job can run slowly or inefficiently. In my years as a software engineer, I have learned that getting top performance from Spark requires moving beyond the defaults and treating performance tuning as a core part of the development process. In this article, I will share the practical lessons I use to optimize Spark programs for speed and resource efficiency.

How Developers Use Synthetic Data to Stress-Test Models in Noisy Markets

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Every quant knows the ritual: collect historical prices, engineer features, and run a backtest. Yet when those same backtests are applied to thinly traded equities or frontier markets, results collapse. Missing data points, illiquidity, regulatory shifts, and outright distortions creep in. The backtest looks elegant on paper, but fails instantly in production. The issue is not strategy alone — it is the dataset itself. Markets like India, Southeast Asia, or even small-cap pockets in developed economies simply do not provide the clean, high-frequency datasets that models built on U.S. equities assume. That fragility pushes developers toward a new approach: synthetic data generation. By constructing engineered datasets that mimic volatility, liquidity droughts, and regime shifts, quants can rehearse reality in controlled environments.

Operationalizing Responsible AI: Turning Ethics Into Engineering

Aggregated on: 2025-10-13 19:10:48

Lately, it feels like everyone is talking about responsible AI — but what does it actually mean when you are the engineer pushing a model to production? You already check for latency, accuracy, and monitoring before a release — but do you ever check off "ethical AI"? When your model delivers a prediction or recommendation and a user asks, "Why these results and not the other ?", do you have a clear explanation or just a shrug and "the algorithm suggested it"? This is the uncomfortable gap between AI capability and AI accountability.

Automating REST Interface Generation

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Abstract In the context of financial services application development, adherence to architectural guidelines is essential. A team of IT architects experimented with Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the generation of REST interfaces, reducing development time by up to 30%. However, the implementation revealed limitations in managing complexity and ensuring rule consistency. This article explores the challenges faced, the solutions adopted, and the prospects for further improving the process. The starting point I have been working for more than 5 years as an IT architect, supporting application development teams in financial services.

Apache Iceberg REST Catalog: The Key to Vendor-Agnostic Data Interoperability

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Apache Iceberg Open Table Format was released in the community with many features, but became popular due to interoperability. This interoperability makes Iceberg vendor-agnostic and SQL engine-agnostic. Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) made interoperability smooth and simple. IRC can solve integration-related challenges in big data analytics ecosystems. This becomes so important, especially in the Data Mesh framework, where you have multiple data publishers and consumers connected through a central governance platform. Using IRC, companies can save costs on the data redundancies, compute, and operational overhead.

What Is API Testing?

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APIs are the buzzword of the software industry these days. They power most modern applications and allow seamless communication between different systems, services, and platforms. From booking a cab to making online payments, APIs silently work in the background to connect everything. They not only save development time but also enhance scalability, flexibility, and innovation for businesses. In short, APIs act as the backbone of the digital ecosystem we rely on every day.

AI Infrastructure: Compute, Storage, Observability, Security, and More

Aggregated on: 2025-10-13 15:10:47

In this third article of the AI infrastructure series, you will learn about AI infrastructure compute, storage, observability, performance, optimization (deep dive), and security. This is the final part in my three-part AI infrastructure series. It's recommended to read the previous two articles published on DZone: AI Infrastructure for Agents and LLMs: Options, Tools, and Optimization AI Infrastructure Guide: Tools, Frameworks, and Architecture Flows Compute Layer Architecture The Compute Layer provides the raw processing power needed for AI workloads, with specialized considerations for GPU management, resource allocation, and workload scheduling. This layer must handle the unique characteristics of AI workloads: high memory requirements, long-running processes, and dynamic resource needs.

AI-Driven Developer Tools: Transforming the Future of Software Development

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Artificial intelligence is no longer such a far-fetched example of technology in software development; it is already a strong catalyst for change in software development. Machine learning requires less time, offers more intelligent decision-making, and streamlines repetitive tasks by using I-based developer tools. Rather than developers losing time to debugging, boilerplate code, or testing every possible scenario, AI tools will assist with many of these implementations. It is streamlining the efforts of software teams so that they can deliver on projects more quickly, with less code debt, and more time to spend on creative problem-solving and innovation.

Write Once, Enforce Everywhere: Reusing Rego Policies Across Build and Runtime

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In most organizations, security and compliance are enforced twice — once during build-time checks and again at runtime through admission controllers and monitoring systems. Often, the policies written at build-time are not reused at runtime, leading to drift, redundancy, and gaps in enforcement. With the rise of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, teams now have the opportunity to unify policy logic and reuse it seamlessly across both phases. This article discusses the principles, design patterns, and practical techniques for reusing Rego policies at build-time and runtime, helping teams reduce duplication, improve compliance confidence, and accelerate software delivery.

Beyond Traditional Load Balancers: The Role of Inference Routers in AI Systems

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Inference routing is the process of routing AI inference requests to the most suitable model based on cost, latency, quality, etc. Unlike simple round robin-based routing found in traditional load balancers, factors such as request complexity, cost constraints, and GPU resource availability are considered in the decision-making layer. It acts as a layer that ensures requests are served by the optimal model for the given request, improving efficiency and performance in multi-model environments. A few examples of inference routers are vLLM router, Azure Inference router, OpenRouter, etc. Selecting the Correct Model for the Current Use Case Selecting the correct model for a use case involves benchmarking and evaluating models against well-defined criteria, as illustrated in Azure AI Foundry’s model benchmarks approach. This process starts by identifying the request type, such as text generation, summarization, or reasoning, and then comparing candidate models on metrics like accuracy, latency, throughput, and cost. Benchmarks provide standardized tests that simulate real-world use cases, enabling developers to assess trade-offs between performance and efficiency.

Why Enterprise AI Needs Agentic Messaging Platforms

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Enterprise AI initiatives often follow a predictable pattern. They launch with ambitious goals: "We need AI agents that can automate workflows, integrate with our systems, and execute complex business logic." The demonstrations are compelling. The potential is clear. But then the implementation reality sets in.

Infusing AI into Your Java Applications

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly pervasive. As an Enterprise Java developer, you might be wondering what value AI can add to your business applications, what tools Java provides to easily do that, and what skills and knowledge you might need to learn. In this article, we equip you with the basic knowledge and skills that you need to start exploring the capabilities of AI to build intelligent and responsive Enterprise Java applications. When we talk about AI in this article, we mean getting responses from a large language model (LLM) based on a request that the Java application sends to the LLM. In our article’s example, we create a simple chatbot that customers can ask for planetary tourist destination recommendations, and then use to book a spaceship to visit them. We demonstrate using Java frameworks like LangChain4j with Quarkus to efficiently interact with LLMs and create satisfying applications for end-users.

Diving into JNI: My Messy Adventures With C++ in Android

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So, I've been deep in the trenches with JNI lately (yeah, that Java Native Interface stuff) while working on a project where we had to plug a C++ AI assistant into our Android app. At first, it felt like stepping into a weird twilight zone — half Java, half C++, and all these random edge cases you never think about until you hit them. I remember staring at the stack trace for what felt like hours, realizing that one tiny missed DeleteLocalRef was enough to crash the whole app. Thought I'd share what actually tripped me up, what worked, and some ways to make life a little less miserable if you ever have to do this. What the Hell Is JNI Anyway? JNI is basically the bridge that lets Java (or Kotlin) talk to C/C++ code and vice versa. On Android, it’s the only real way to get heavy lifting done efficiently or access low-level APIs that Java/Kotlin just can't reach. Honestly, the first time I tried to wrap my head around it, I felt like I was learning a new language on top of Java and C++ at the same time.

Long-Running Durable Agents With Spring AI and Dapr Workflows

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Over the last year, we have seen a rise in various patterns and usages that combine popular frameworks, such as Spring AI and LLM interactions. In January this year, Christian from the Spring AI team published Building Effective Agents with Spring AI, covering common agentic patterns described in the Anthropic paper titled Building Effective Agents. I strongly recommend both of these blog posts to gain a good understanding of how these concepts are shaping up and the tools needed to implement the patterns suggested in these two articles.

Introduction to Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5

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It's been a while since my first article dedicated to Spring Data Elasticsearch usage as a NoSQL database was published. A couple of articles with configuration changes or hints followed the first article. Therefore, the main goal of this article is to define a new baseline for the full Elasticsearch setup. Note: All previous articles are listed at the end.

Stop React Native Crashes: A Production-Ready Error Handling Guide

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You are demonstrating your next mobile application idea to investors, and suddenly the application crashes. Now you are clueless whether it crashed due to bad WIFI at the venue, your service is down, or your application itself hit a snag. There are no logs or alerts to tell you what just happened. Mere imagination of this scenario can send any founder or developer into panic and nervousness. Therefore, having robust error handling is critical to modern-day mobile applications. React Native has become an industry standard in building cross-platform native mobile applications. React Native boasts a rich ecosystem of error handling at various levels of architecture. However, often projects lack clear guidelines on how to handle various error scenarios. This results in either overdoing or underdoing error handling in otherwise robust and feature-rich applications. In this article, you will learn how to adopt a three-layer error handling mechanism, which is gaining widespread popularity with major enterprise-level applications built at leading companies. The article will give you a practical guide instead of pure theory, so you are ready to adapt these concepts immediately.

Fixing a Test Involves Much More Than Simply Making It Pass

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Software tests are essential mechanisms in the development lifecycle designed to verify that code behaves as expected. They catch bugs, ensuring functionality aligns with requirements, and maintain overall system reliability through automated assertions on inputs, outputs, and states. However, fixing a failing test extends far beyond merely adjusting it to pass, as this superficial approach can mask deeper issues in the underlying code or architecture. True resolution demands a thorough investigation into the root cause. It could be a logic error, an environmental mismatch, a dependency failure, or an outdated assumption in the test itself, followed by targeted corrections that preserve the test's intent as a safeguard against regressions. Blindly modifying assertions to match unexpected outcomes, such as changing an expected value from false to true without validating why the discrepancy occurred, risks introducing false positives, eroding trust in the test suite.

AI-Assisted Kubernetes Diagnostics: A Practical Implementation

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Kubernetes troubleshooting follows a repetitive pattern: identify unhealthy pods, examine descriptions, review logs, analyze events, and correlate information to find root causes. For common issues like CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, or OOMKilled pods, engineers repeat the same diagnostic steps daily, sometimes dozens of times per week in busy production environments. The traditional workflow requires running multiple kubectl commands in sequence, mentally correlating outputs from pod descriptions, container logs, event streams, and resource configurations. An engineer investigating a single failing pod might execute 5–10 commands, read through hundreds of lines of output, and spend 10-30 minutes connecting the dots between symptoms and root causes. For straightforward issues like memory limits or missing images, this time investment yields solutions that follow predictable patterns.

Building Realistic Test Data in Java: A Hands-On Guide for Developers

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There’s something that every backend or API developer faces sooner or later: the need for good fake data. Whether you’re testing a new API, populating a database for demos, or simply trying to make your unit tests less “boring”, fake data is part of your daily routine. The problem? Most fake data feels… fake. You end up with “John Doe” and “123 Main Street” repeated over and over, which doesn’t look great when showing a prototype to your team or client.

Securing HTTPS From the Inside Out: Preventing Client-Side Interception Attacks

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Overview HTTPS is the most common mechanism used to protect client-server communication on the internet. Most teams focus on SSL/TLS and server-side hardening — and for good reason — but security is layered: the system is only as strong as its weakest link. This article focuses on a specific class of HTTPS man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that is not widely discussed. The aim is to harden one of the weaker links in many deployments. If you believe it’s perfectly safe to use a banking site over HTTPS on a device that isn’t yours (a friend’s laptop, an office machine), please read on.

Popular DevOps Automation Tools

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DevOps automation tools streamline the path from idea to deployment by turning repetitive, error-prone steps into reliable, repeatable workflows that reduce toil and shorten mean time to recovery (MTTR). This article walks through five categories of DevOps automation tools. Expanding your tool stack thoughtfully is less about quantity and more about reducing change failure rate and increasing deployment frequency in a safe way.

Using LLMs to Automate Root Cause Analysis in Incident Response

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Executive Summary In today’s complex cloud and microservices-based systems, it’s no surprise that things break. While we’ve made huge strides in detecting issues quickly with modern observability tools, getting to the actual root of a problem — what really caused the incident — is still a tough, manual, and time-consuming task. That’s where large language models (LLMs) step in. These AI models are trained to understand logs, alerts, documentation, and natural language — all of which are crucial during incidents. By tapping into the power of LLMs, teams can significantly speed up root cause analysis (RCA), reduce downtime, and even lay the foundation for self-healing systems.

Evaluating LLM-Powered Voice Assistants: A Guide Beyond Traditional Metrics

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Voice assistants have evolved from being simple, rule-based systems to advanced conversational agents driven by large language models (LLMs). Early versions of voice assistants could only handle specific tasks with pre-defined commands. In contrast, modern LLM-powered assistants can now engage in long and open-ended conversations, follow complex instructions, and perform multi-step reasoning. These improved capabilities bring new evaluation challenges. Traditional metrics like intent classification accuracy, slot-filling accuracy/recall, and goal completion rates can no longer capture the overall quality of a voice assistant. Assistant responses can sound fluent and plausible, even when they contain factual errors or unsafe content. For example, an LLM assistant might correctly identify a user’s request to “find Italian restaurants” (intent) and extract the location “downtown” (slot), but then respond with a restaurant name that doesn’t even exist. Traditional benchmarks would mark the intent/slot task as successful, without accounting for the factual error. Therefore, new metrics and techniques are needed to assess factuality, safety, reasoning ability, instruction following, and user experience.

Building a Supply Chain Digital Twin Technology

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About Supply Chain Supply chain means that the entire system is involved, from the producer to the customer. This process involves producing and delivering a product or service to the customer. It includes all the methods, systems, organizations, people, activities, information, and resources. The following are some of the steps involved in the supply chain:

How GenAI Can Eliminate SME Bottlenecks in Enterprise Systems

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In large-scale enterprises, tribal knowledge often stalls developer productivity and slows operational agility. Subject matter experts (SMEs) become bottlenecks when critical business logic and configuration decisions live only in legacy codebases or in the minds of a few veterans. This article presents an architecture that leverages GraphCodeBERT embeddings, FAISS vector search, and large language models (LLMs) like Sonnet or Claude to transform complex enterprise logic into conversational explanations. Drawing on real-world use cases in asset lifecycle processing and internal platform operations, it outlines a scalable, GenAI-driven approach to overcoming SME bottlenecks and accelerating engineering velocity.

Low Code, High Impact: A Solution Architect’s Guide to Building Scalable Community Platforms With AI and Low-Code Tools

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As a solution architect, I’ve spent most of my career building massive enterprise systems — cloud-native platforms, scalable APIs, and robust infrastructure. So when I took it upon myself to build a digital hub for our Chhath Puja community in Southern California, it was a refreshing shift from the corporate grind. This time, there was no project team, no IT budget, and no stakeholder meetings. Just me — and the need to launch something meaningful, quickly.

Virtualization Meets Acceleration: Powering AI Workloads

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Artificial Intelligence has quickly moved from buzzword to business driver. From chatbots and fraud detection to medical imaging and predictive analytics, AI has found a home in nearly every industry. But as AI evolves, so do the infrastructure demands that support it. Training large models or running real-time inference pipelines isn’t trivial — it takes serious compute, bandwidth, and orchestration. Here’s the good news: most enterprises already have the core building blocks needed for an AI-ready high-performance computing (HPC) environment sitting quietly in their data centers. We're talking about Cisco UCS servers, Cisco network switches, and VMware virtualization — technologies that are already deeply embedded in IT ecosystems across industries.

Efficiently Reading Large Excel Files (Over 1 Million Rows) Using the Open-Source Sjxlsx Java API

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If you are a developer, regardless of the technologies you use, at some point, you will face the challenge of handling large Excel files. Most commonly, you will see the "out of memory" error when handling these files.

Theia Deep Dive, Part 2: Mastering Customization

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In the first part, we set up the basics: Theia runs in the browser, plugins work, themes and icons load, and we even added a splash screen. That gives us a functional IDE, but it’s still pretty close to stock. This part is about shaping it into our own product. We’ll start by stripping out what we don’t need, then adjust the UI and wire up contributions so the editor feels focused and intentional.

The Top 20 Problems With Batch Processing (and How to Fix Them With Data Streaming)

Aggregated on: 2025-10-08 19:25:45

Batch processing has long been the default approach for moving and transforming data in enterprise systems. It works on fixed schedules, processes data in large chunks, and often relies on complex chains of jobs that run overnight. While this was acceptable in the past, today’s digital businesses operate in real time — and can’t afford to wait hours for fresh insights. Delays, errors, and inconsistencies caused by batch workflows lead to poor decisions, missed opportunities, and growing operational costs. In this post, we’ll look at common issues with batch processing and show why data streaming is the modern alternative for fast, reliable, and scalable data infrastructure.

Strapi v5: Customization Nuances

Aggregated on: 2025-10-08 18:25:45

Strapi is an open-source headless CMS. The library allows integration with external databases, the implementation of custom controllers, and customization of the UI to match a project's branding. According to GitHub, around 30,000 developers use Strapi CMS in their projects. This article is primarily aimed at developers who work with or plan to integrate Strapi CMS into their applications.

Theia Deep Dive, Part 1: From Zero to Your Own IDE

Aggregated on: 2025-10-08 17:25:45

Intro: Why Build Your Own IDE? There are countless reasons to create your own IDE. Perhaps you are creating a sandbox similar to CodeSandbox, but adapted to your own framework. Or an Arduino-style environment where a strictly controlled user interface is required for flashing firmware and interacting with hardware. Maybe your SaaS product needs a built-in cloud editor. Maybe you're creating an educational platform where users should only see part of the code. Or you're releasing your own language or framework, and want the developer tools not to look like an add-on plugin. Or maybe you've decided to create your own Cursor with an AI assistant. Whatever your goal, creating your own IDE is more than possible. In this guide, I'll show you how to do it with Eclipse Theia: a fully modular, open-source platform designed to adapt to your needs.