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The Role of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in Development of AI-Infused Enterprise Applications

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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming enterprise applications, enabling businesses to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. However, AI adoption is not a one-size-fits-all approach—organizations integrate AI at different levels depending on their needs, existing infrastructure, and strategic goals. This article explores three categories of AI-infused applications, their enterprise use cases, and how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is revolutionizing AI adoption by improving accuracy, relevance, and contextual understanding in AI-driven applications.

5 Subtle Indicators Your Development Environment Is Under Siege

Aggregated on: 2025-05-13 13:13:40

Think your organization is too small to be a target for threat actors? Think again. In 2025, attackers no longer distinguish between size or sector. Whether you’re a flashy tech giant, a mid-sized auto dealership software provider, or a small startup, if you store data someone is trying to access it. As security measures around production environments strengthen, which they have, attackers are shifting left—straight into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). These less-protected and complex environments have become prime targets, where gaps in security can expose sensitive data and derail operations if exploited. That’s why recognizing the warning signs of nefarious behavior is critical. But identification alone isn’t enough—security and development teams must work together to address these risks before attackers exploit them. From suspicious clone activity to overlooked code review changes, subtle indicators can reveal when bad actors are lurking in your development environment.

DGS GraphQL and Spring Boot

Aggregated on: 2025-05-13 12:28:40

Why GraphQL? GraphQL provides a powerful layer to unify data from various backend sources, including databases, REST APIs, and microservices, into a single, consistent API. It enables the creation of flexible APIs that can evolve with changing client applications. Introduction This article will show you how to create an effective application that implements GraphQL using the Netflix DGS framework in the Spring Boot application.

Concourse CI/CD Pipeline: Webhook Triggers

Aggregated on: 2025-05-13 11:28:40

Concourse is an open-source continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation framework written in Go. It is built to scale to any automation pipeline, from minor to complex tasks, and offers flexibility, scalability, and a declarative approach to automation. It is suitable for automating testing pipelines and continuously delivering changes to modern application stacks in various environments. This article will discuss setting up a Concourse pipeline and triggering pipelines using webhook triggers.

Scalable, Resilient Data Orchestration: The Power of Intelligent Systems

Aggregated on: 2025-05-12 20:28:39

Data is the key driver for any intelligent solution, including AI/ML. The accuracy and quality of any AI/ML model are directly proportional to the quality of data, regardless of whether it takes the form of input data, a prompt, or a pre-trained knowledge dataset. Often, the training datasets for AI/ML models originate from multiple sources and undergo various stages of data processing before being transformed into useful information that models can rely on for training. To achieve a reliable and continuous flow of data from diverse sources, transform data based on business rules, and extract insights and recommendations, we need a data orchestration solution. This article discusses the unsung hero that orchestrates data flow across multiple components, including pipelines, to deliver the intended outcome. This article intentionally focuses on the characteristics and principles of a data orchestrator that are architecturally stable and resilient over time. The topics covered in this article are technology-agnostic and applicable to any industry-recognized data orchestration tools. As an engineer, the solution architecture is influenced by the capabilities or non-functional requirements, not purely by the tools available in the market. This article offers a refreshing take on the topic of data orchestration and shares my experience with the distinguished community of software professionals on designing large-scale data orchestration systems that ultimately bring insights and power intelligent systems. What Is Data Orchestration? Data orchestration is a set of related tasks executed in an order driven by specific use case needs. Data orchestration can have many names, such as workflow or state machine. Essentially, they are represented as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG), composed of nodes and edges. The nodes are represented as individual tasks, while the edges are depicted as triggers. A DAG can compose multiple subsystems and connect them through events that trigger actions, share data payloads along with execution context, thereby making the orchestration well-informed to chart a course of action.

Comprehensive Guide to Property-Based Testing in Go: Principles and Implementation

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Traditional unit testing often leaves critical edge cases undiscovered, with developers manually crafting test cases that may miss important scenarios. Property-based testing with Go offers a more robust approach, automatically generating hundreds of test cases to validate your code’s behavior across a wide range of inputs. Rather than writing individual test cases, you define properties that your code should always satisfy. The testing framework then generates diverse test scenarios, helping you uncover edge cases and bugs that might otherwise go unnoticed. This comprehensive guide explores how to implement property-based testing using popular Go libraries like gopter and rapid, along with practical examples and best practices for test automation.

AI-Based Threat Detection in Cloud Security

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Abstract This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is enhancing threat detection in cloud certificate environments. It explicates how dissimilar AI modeling, such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, is used to describe and respond to security measures and threats in cloud environments. The article also wraps up the architecture of AI-powered security systems, including data compendium, model training, and feedback loops. It highlights real-world use cases like insider threat spotting and explains how emerging technologies like large language models (LLMs) and self-healing systems determine the future of cloud security. Technical, simple, and concise, the article offers deep insight into the practical deployment and limitations of AI in real-time cloud defense systems.

Is Agile Right for Every Project? When To Use It and When To Avoid It

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Agile has completely changed how teams think about project and task management by introducing flexibility, collaboration, and continuous evolution toward goals. Furthermore, its applicability stretches to software development, product management, and even non-technical fields. With such a multifaceted environment, it is crucial to determine the exact point where Agile can be applied or when it becomes more of a burden. Knowing where to balance the pros and cons of Agile helps in coming up with the best decisions aligning with your team and organizational objectives.

Blue Skies Ahead: An AI Case Study on LLM Use for a Graph Theory Related Application

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Research activities necessitate the exploration of ideas which may involve significant software development, experimentation, and testing effort. The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate executable software has been demonstrated in various use cases. This study highlights the positive outcomes of a use case involving a graph theory application. Through a series of successful prompts, functional software was produced within minutes, a task that would otherwise have taken several hours or days to complete. Rather than focusing solely on cost savings from reduced engineering effort, this study aims to highlight the substantial opportunity benefits provided by this technology, especially since research typically involves evaluating multiple ideas before selecting the optimal solution. Introduction When considering great systems thinking quotes, Donnella H. Meadows stands out: “Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”

Unlocking Data with Language: Real-World Applications of Text-to-SQL Interfaces

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Introduction It has long been a difficult task to generate precise SQL queries from customers' natural language inquiries (text-to-SQL). Understanding user queries, appreciating the structure and semantics of a particular database schema, and accurately producing executable SQL statements are some of the elements that contribute to the complexity. Large language models (LLMs) have opened up new avenues for text-to-SQL research. Superior natural language understanding skills are demonstrated by LLMs, and their scalability offers special chances to improve SQL creation.

How Trustworthy Is Big Data?

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Businesses and individual users now employ big data analysis to support decision-making, engineering innovation, and productivity levels. However, the surge in the reliance on big data leads to growing concerns regarding its accuracy and trustworthiness. Although big data provides unprecedented insights and opportunities across all industries, you should be aware of concerns, such as loss of trust in big data, and address them as well. This article explores the perils of bad big data, reasons for the lack of trust in big data, and strategies that can be adopted to combat it.

Why High-Performance AI/ML Is Essential in Modern Cybersecurity

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Today, organizations thrive in a complex and evolving threat landscape, and cybersecurity has become pivotal for digital resilience. Various sophisticated attacks, such as supply chain breaches, ransomware, phishing via malicious email campaigns, and vulnerabilities in cloud and Internet of Things (IOT) environments, need advanced, performance-sensitive solutions that can detect in real time and also respond to and mitigate these attacks. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) play a frontal role in these transformations, providing the necessary capabilities to secure digital systems effectively.

From Zero to Production: Best Practices for Scaling LLMs in the Enterprise

Aggregated on: 2025-05-12 12:28:39

AI adoption is no longer a future trend—it's happening now. The 2024 Work Trend Index reports that 75% of knowledge workers already use AI on the job. At the forefront of this revolution are Large Language Models (LLMs) which are transforming the way businesses handle natural language tasks—from automating customer support and information retrieval to generating content. Foundational models are versatile, pre-trained architectures that form the backbone of the Generative AI movement. Trained on vast and diverse datasets—including text and multimodal content—they enable businesses to fine-tune AI capabilities for specific tasks like conversational agents, document summarization, and code generation. The Generative AI landscape features several key players, each contributing unique strengths to foundational model development:

Automating Data Pipelines: Generating PySpark and SQL Jobs With LLMs in Cloudera

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With the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), data engineers and analysts can now translate natural language directly into working PySpark or SQL jobs. By integrating LLMs into Cloudera Machine Learning (CML) and executing workloads on Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) with Iceberg table formats, enterprises can accelerate data pipeline development, improve collaboration, and simplify access to large-scale analytics.

How to Convert XLS to XLSX in Java

Aggregated on: 2025-05-09 21:28:38

Why Upgrading XLS to XLSX Is Worth Your Time Ask any seasoned Java developer who's worked with Excel files long enough, and you’ll probably hear a similar refrain: the old XLS Excel format is clunky and annoying. It’s been around since the late ’80s, and while it’s still supported in a lot of systems, it's not doing us many favors today. It was, after all, replaced with XLSX for a reason. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of important data packed in those old binary XLS containers, and some developers are tasked with making clean conversions to XLSX to improve the usability (and security) of that data for the long run.

Automatic Code Transformation With OpenRewrite

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Code Maintenance/Refactoring Challenges As with most problems in business, the challenge with maintaining code is to minimize cost and maximize benefit over some reasonable amount of time. For software maintenance, costs and benefits largely revolve around two things: the quantity and quality of both old and new code. Quantity SonarQube suggests our organization maintain at least 80 million lines of code. That’s a lot, especially if we stay current with security patches and rapid library upgrades.

Accelerating AI Inference With TensorRT

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Introduction Deep learning models can be computationally expensive, especially when they're deployed in latency-sensitive scenarios like autonomous vehicles. Having a powerful GPU does not guarantee quick predictions if your model isn't optimized for inference. This is where NVIDIA TensorRT comes into play, an SDK that refines, quantizes, and accelerates deep learning models so they run significantly faster. This article provides a deep technical overview of converting PyTorch models to TensorRT, covering the tools, configurations, and best practices. We'll also examine how TensorRT reduced latency by more than 70% in an autonomous driving system.

A Complete Guide to Modern AI Developer Tools

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Based on my previous articles exploring AI, machine learning, and generative AI, many developers have reached out to understand how these technologies can enhance their workflows, from improving coding skills and streamlining model training to deploying APIs and beyond. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a surge in specialized tools designed to streamline development, collaboration, and deployment. This guide explores the most impactful AI developer tools, highlighting their features, installation steps, strengths, and limitations. Whether you’re training models, deploying APIs, or debugging workflows, this article will help you choose the right tool for your needs.

The Human Side of Logs: What Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You

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It’s Friday afternoon, and your dashboards look great. Charts are green. CPU usage is stable. Database query times are within your SLA. You’re feeling great and ready for the weekend. But little do you know, there’s a significant issue being overlooked by all your metrics — and it’s about to ruin your weekend.

AI’s Role in Everyday Development

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Introduction From automated code generation to intelligent debugging and DevOps optimization, AI-powered tools are enhancing efficiency and improving software quality. As software engineering evolves, developers who leverage AI can significantly reduce development time, minimize errors, and improve productivity. Can software engineers be really replaced? Let’s explore briefly.

Immutable Secrets Management: A Zero-Trust Approach to Sensitive Data in Containers

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Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive approach to securing sensitive data in containerized environments using the principle of immutable secrets management, grounded in a Zero-Trust security model. We detail the inherent risks of traditional secrets management, demonstrate how immutability and Zero-Trust principles mitigate these risks, and provide a practical, step-by-step guide to implementation. A real-world case study using AWS services and common DevOps tools illustrates the tangible benefits of this approach, aligning with the criteria for the Global Tech Awards in the DevOps Technology category. The focus is on achieving continuous delivery, security, and resilience through a novel concept we term "ChaosSecOps." Executive Summary This paper details a robust, innovative approach to securing sensitive data within containerized environments: Immutable Secrets Management with a Zero-Trust approach. We address the critical vulnerabilities inherent in traditional secrets management practices, which often rely on mutable secrets and implicit trust. Our solution, grounded in the principles of Zero-Trust security, immutability, and DevSecOps, ensures that secrets are inextricably linked to container images, minimizing the risk of exposure and unauthorized access.

AI's Dilemma: When to Retrain and When to Unlearn?

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A Growing Need for Data Privacy Solutions In recent times, data privacy has become a central focus, with laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) playing a key role. Organizations are under increasing pressure to comply with user data deletion requests. One significant requirement is the right to data deletion. Where user can request their personal information to be removed from company’s databases.

Revolutionizing Financial Monitoring: Building a Team Dashboard With OpenObserve

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After a particularly grueling Thursday spent troubleshooting a publish API outage last year, I remember turning to my colleague and saying, "There has to be a better way." Four years into my software engineering career in fintech, and we were still piecing together information from disparate monitoring tools whenever something went wrong. That frustration kickstarted my two-month journey to build what's now become our team's most valuable asset: a comprehensive OpenObserve dashboard that's transformed how we monitor our services. Finding the Right Tool After spending a few weekends researching options, I narrowed down our choices to three observability platforms. OpenObserve won out because it offered:

Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 2: Power BI Embedded Overview

Aggregated on: 2025-05-09 12:28:37

Note: This article dives into the details of Power BI Embedded. It is a continuation of the Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 1 article, which discusses Power BI Authoring and an introduction to Power BI Embedded Analytics. So, it is recommended that you go through the discussion on that article. You can also find Part 3, which presents a Power BI Embedded Demo application, here, based on the details presented in this article.

Mastering Advanced Traffic Management in Multi-Cloud Kubernetes: Scaling With Multiple Istio Ingress Gateways

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In my experience managing large-scale Kubernetes deployments across multi-cloud platforms, traffic control often becomes a critical bottleneck, especially when dealing with mixed workloads like APIs, UIs, and transactional systems. While Istio’s default ingress gateway does a decent job, I found that relying on a single gateway can introduce scaling and isolation challenges. That’s where configuring multiple Istio Ingress Gateways can make a real difference. In this article, I’ll walk you through how I approached this setup, what benefits it unlocked for our team, and the hands-on steps we used, along with best practices and YAML configurations that you can adapt in your own clusters.

The Cypress Edge: Next-Level Testing Strategies for React Developers

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Introduction Testing is the backbone of building reliable software. As a React developer, you’ve likely heard about Cypress—a tool that’s been making waves in the testing community. But how do you go from writing your first test to mastering complex scenarios? Let’s break it down together, step by step, with real-world examples and practical advice. Why Cypress Stands Out for React Testing Imagine this: You’ve built a React component, but it breaks when a user interacts with it. You spend hours debugging, only to realize the issue was a missing prop. Cypress solves this pain point by letting you test components in isolation, catching errors early. Unlike traditional testing tools, Cypress runs directly in the browser, giving you a real-time preview of your tests. It’s like having a pair of eyes watching every click, hover, and API call.

Cutting-Edge Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles: Advanced Transformers and Multi-Sensor Fusion

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Developers of autonomous driving systems must ensure their detectors handle varied weather, occlusions, and wide-ranging object sizes without draining hardware resources. Traditional CNN-based pipelines have plateaued in many scenarios. This article explores advanced Transformer architectures for 3D detection, LiDAR-camera cross-attention modules, and specialized polyline-based lane estimation with nuanced synchronization methods. Readers familiar with baseline approaches (two-stage detectors or initial Transformer backbones) will find deeper discussions on improved attention blocks, memory management, and on-device constraints. Transformer-Based 3D Detection With Enhanced Modules DETR Variants for Multi-View Geometry Conventional DETR processes 2D images, but researchers have introduced extensions such as Deformable DETR, DETR3D and BEVFormer. These variants align multi-camera data in three-dimensional space using geometry cues. When multiple cameras overlook a complex intersection, a 3D aggregator can unify the perspective transforms.

Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 1.1: Power BI Authoring Data Federation

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Note: This article dives into the details of Power BI Authoring Data Federation. This is a sub-part of the Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 1 article, where Power BI Authoring and introduction to Power BI Embedded Analytics are discussed. So, going through the discussion on Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 1 is recommended.

Cloud Cost Optimization for ML Workloads With NVIDIA DCGM

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Introduction Running machine learning (ML) workloads in the cloud can become prohibitively expensive when teams overlook resource orchestration. Large-scale data ingestion, GPU-based inference, and ephemeral tasks often rack up unexpected fees. This article offers a detailed look at advanced strategies for cost management, including: Dynamic Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) schedules using SQL triggers and partitioning Time-series modeling—Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) and Prophet—with hyperparameter tuning GPU provisioning with NVIDIA DCGM and multi-instance GPU configurations In-depth autoscaling examples for AI services Our team reduced expenses by 48% while maintaining performance for large ML pipelines. This guide outlines our process in code.

How to Configure and Customize the Go SDK for Azure Cosmos DB

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The Go SDK for Azure Cosmos DB is built on top of the core Azure Go SDK package, which implements several patterns that are applied throughout the SDK. The core SDK is designed to be quite customizable, and its configurations can be applied with the ClientOptions struct when creating a new Cosmos DB client object using NewClient (and other similar functions). If you peek inside the azcore.ClientOptions struct, you will notice that it has many options for configuring the HTTP client, retry policies, timeouts, and other settings. In this blog, we will cover how to make use of (and extend) these common options when building applications with the Go SDK for Cosmos DB.

Testing SingleStore's MCP Server

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) appears to be gaining traction since its release in 2024. SingleStore recently released an official MCP Server, and this article will show how to install, configure, and run this from the CLI using a freely available tool called MCPHost.

Scalable System Design: Core Concepts for Building Reliable Software

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System design refers to the process of defining and creating a high-level architecture that meets certain requirements related to performance, scalability, availability, maintainability, and more. Based on my learnings and experience so far as a senior software engineering leader, I have tried to summarize the key concepts of software system design. Here are some of the most important concepts you’ll encounter when designing large-scale systems: Scalability The ability of a system to handle an increasing workload (either by scaling up or scaling out) without sacrificing performance.

Start Coding With Google Cloud Workstations

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Google Cloud Workstations provide powerful, managed solutions for modern software development. By offering secure, consistent, and accessible cloud-based development environments, they tackle common frustrations associated with local setups, like configuration drift, dependency issues, and security concerns. Utilizing containerization and Google Cloud's scalable infrastructure, Workstations empower developers to code from anywhere with their favorite IDEs, guaranteeing a standardized and secure workflow. This approach simplifies developer onboarding, boosts collaboration, and significantly increases productivity by shifting the focus from environment management to writing code. Prerequisites Enable the Cloud Workstations API: Before you begin, ensure the necessary API is active. Go to the Google Cloud Console's APIs & Services section. Search for and enable the "Cloud Workstations API" if it is not currently enabled.

Getting Started With GenAI on BigQuery: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Overview Companies are continuously looking for methods to extract important information from their continuously growing databases. Machine learning has become a game-changer in this mission, allowing us to predict user behavior, discover emerging trends, and automate complex decision-making. Google Cloud's BigQuery ML has completely redefined the way we deal with ML by bringing model training directly to the data warehouse. This means we can come up with sophisticated ML models by writing simple SQL queries and deploying them, which removes the need to move complex data or integrate with other separate ML platforms.

Artificial Intelligence, Real Consequences: Balancing Good vs Evil AI [Infographic]

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Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Generative AI: The Democratization of Intelligent Systems. A tale as old as time: good versus evil. Today, every developer faces the internal monologue of "good" vs. "bad" artificial intelligence — ethical vs. unethical, productive vs. unproductive, efficiency vs. job security. It's impossible to move forward without contemplating the mounting benefits and risks associated with this technology. Is AI bringing about positive change? What are the long-term repercussions? Let's explore the exciting yet intensifying pressure of AI.

Top Book Picks for Site Reliability Engineers

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I believe reading is fundamental. site reliability engineers (SREs) need to have deep knowledge in a wide range of subjects and topics such as coding, operating systems, computer networking, large-scale distributed systems, SRE best practices, and more to be successful at their job. In this article, I discuss a few books that will help SREs to become better at their job. 1. Site Reliability Engineering, by the Google SRE team Google originally coined the term "Site Reliability Engineering." This book is a must read for anyone interested in site reliability engineering. It covers a wide range of topics that SREs focus on day to day such as SLOs, eliminating toil, monitoring distributed systems, release management, incident management, infrastructure, and more. This books gives an overview of the different elements that SREs work on. Although this book has many topics specific to Google, it provides a good framework and mental model about various SRE topics. The online version of this book is freely available, so there is no excuse not to read it. The free online version of this book is available here.

Building Enterprise-Ready Landing Zones: Beyond the Initial Setup

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Introduction Cloud providers offer baseline landing zone frameworks, but successful implementation requires strategic customization tailored to an organization’s specific security, compliance, operations, and cost-management needs. Treating a landing zone as a turnkey solution can lead to security gaps and operational inefficiencies. Instead, enterprises should carefully design and continuously refine their landing zones to build a secure, scalable, and efficient foundation for cloud adoption. Planning Factors for Enterprise Cloud Landing Zone When designing a cloud landing zone, organizations must carefully evaluate the following key factors to establish a robust and efficient foundation before deploying business applications to the new cloud platform:

Event-Driven Architectures: Designing Scalable and Resilient Cloud Solutions

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Event-driven architectures (EDA) have been a cornerstone in designing cloud systems that are future-proofed, scalable, resilient, and sustainable in nature. EDA is interested in generation, capture, and response to events and nothing more, not even in traditional systems of request-response. The paradigm is most suitable to systems that require high decoupling, elasticity, and fault tolerance. In this article, I'll be discussing the technical details of event-driven architectures, along with snippets of code, patterns, and practical strategies of implementation. Let's get started!

The Ultimate Chaos Testing Guide

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Introduction Ensuring system resilience and dependability has become a top goal in the quickly evolving field of software development. The complex interdependencies and unforeseen failure scenarios that occur in production contexts are frequently missed by standard testing techniques, despite their importance. Organizations can proactively identify vulnerabilities and fix them before they cause major disruptions by using the revolutionary approach that chaos testing provides. Understanding the Chaos Testing Paradigm A systematic and purposeful approach to evaluating fault tolerance is chaos testing, which is an integral part of Chaos engineering and involves purposefully introducing controlled failures into a system in order to observe and monitor how it behaves. By purposefully interfering with the system's regular operations, engineers are able to find elusive defects, delicate code pathways, and hidden dependencies that conventional testing techniques can miss. By accepting the unpredictable nature of real-world situations, chaos testing gives businesses important information about the weaknesses in their systems, allowing them to create stronger and more resilient solutions.

Simplify Authorization in Ruby on Rails With the Power of Pundit Gem

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Hi, I'm Denis, a backend developer. I’ve been recently working on building a robust all-in-one CRM system for HR and finance, website, and team management. Using the Pundit gem, I was able to build such an efficient role-based access system, and now I'd like to share my experience. Managing authorization efficiently became a crucial challenge as this system expanded, requiring a solution that was both scalable and easy to maintain. In Ruby on Rails, handling user access can quickly become complex, but the Pundit gem.

Measuring the Impact of AI on Software Engineering Productivity

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It is hard to imagine a time not long ago where AI has not been front and center of our everyday news, let alone in the software engineering world? The advent of LLMs coupled with the existing compute power catapulted the use of AI in our everyday lives and in particular so in the life of a software engineer. This article breaks down some of the use cases of AI in software engineering and suggests a path to investigate the key question: Did we actually become more productive? It has only been a few years since the inception of GitHub Copilot in 2021. Since then, AI assisted coding tools have had a significant impact on software engineering practices. As of 2024 it is estimated that 75% of developers use some kind of AI tool. Often, these tools are not fully rolled out in organizations and used on the side. However, Gartner estimates that we will reach 90% enterprise adoption by 2028.

How the Go Runtime Preempts Goroutines for Efficient Concurrency

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Go's lightweight concurrency model, built on goroutines and channels, has made it a favorite for building efficient, scalable applications. Behind the scenes, the Go runtime employs sophisticated mechanisms to ensure thousands (or even millions) of goroutines run fairly and efficiently. One such mechanism is goroutine preemption, which is crucial for ensuring fairness and responsiveness. In this article, we'll dive into how the Go runtime implements goroutine preemption, how it works, and why it's critical for compute-heavy applications. We'll also use clear code examples to demonstrate these concepts.

Cookies Revisited: A Networking Solution for Third-Party Cookies

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Cookies are fundamental aspects of a web application that end users and developers frequently deal with. A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored in a user’s browser. The data element is used as a medium to communicate information between the web browser and the application's server-side layer. Cookies serve various purposes, such as remembering a user’s credentials (not recommended), targeting advertisements (tracking cookies), or helping to maintain a user’s authentication status in a web application. Several fantastic articles on the internet have been written over the years on cookies.

Transforming AI-Driven Data Analytics with DeepSeek: A New Era of Intelligent Insights

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Imagine standing under a waterfall with a single bucket. That’s what modern businesses face daily. Data pours in from every direction—customer interactions, IoT sensors, social media, transactions—but turning that deluge into actionable insights feels nearly impossible. By 2025, global data creation is projected to hit 149 zettabytes, yet less than 1% of this data is ever analyzed. The problem here isn’t just volume; it’s velocity, variety, and the sheer complexity of connecting dots in real time.

Medallion Architecture: Why You Need It and How To Implement It With ClickHouse

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In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, businesses aren’t struggling with a lack of data—they’re drowning in it. The challenge lies in managing, processing, and extracting value from this massive influx of information. Without a clear structure, data pipelines become tangled, unreliable, and hard to scale. This is where medallion architecture steps in.

Kubeflow: Driving Scalable and Intelligent Machine Learning Systems

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Kubeflow is a powerful cloud-native platform designed to simplify every stage of the Machine Learning Development Lifecycle (MDLC). From data exploration and feature engineering to model training, tuning, serving, testing, and versioning, Kubeflow brings it all together in one seamless ecosystem. By integrating traditionally siloed tools, it ensures that your machine learning workflows run smoothly from start to finish. One of the standout features of Kubeflow is its pipeline system, which allows users to create end-to-end workflows that connect each stage of the MDLC. These pipelines make it easy to design, test, and deploy machine learning projects while maintaining efficiency and consistency.

It’s Not About Control — It’s About Collaboration Between Architecture and Security

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In the day-to-day operations of companies, solution architecture and information security are two areas that inevitably intersect. Both play a key role in building robust, scalable, and reliable technology environments. However, one question lingers — though rarely openly discussed: what should the relationship between these two areas look like? Should architecture report to security? Or the other way around? Or should each follow its own path independently? This reflection is not just theoretical. It directly impacts decision-making, the success of strategic projects, and even the digital maturity of organizations.

Segmentation Violation and How Rust Helps Overcome It

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Segmentation faults are a common issue when working in low-level programming languages like C. These faults occur when a program attempts to access memory it’s not supposed to, leading to crashes and unpredictable behavior. While C offers granular control over memory management, it leaves developers responsible for ensuring safety, often resulting in bugs such as buffer overflows, use-after-free errors, and dangling pointers. Enter Rust, a systems programming language designed to address these issues with its built-in safety mechanisms. Rust prevents segmentation faults and other memory-related errors through its ownership system, borrow checker, and strict type and lifetime guarantees — all features enforced at compile time. This article will compare C's approach to segmentation faults with Rust's implementation and explain why Rust significantly reduces memory-related bugs.

Solid Testing Strategies for Salesforce Releases

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As software engineers, we live in a dependency-driven world. Whether they are libraries, open-source code, or frameworks, these dependencies often provide the boilerplate functionality, integrations with other platforms, and tooling that make our jobs a little easier. But of course, one of the burdens of this dependency-driven world is that we are now at the mercy of our dependencies’ updates and schedules. Especially when we’ve added our own customizations and integrations on top.

Unlocking the Potential of Apache Iceberg: A Comprehensive Analysis

Aggregated on: 2025-05-06 18:13:36

Apache Iceberg has emerged as a pioneering open table format, revolutionising data management by addressing big challenges. In this article, we'll delve into Iceberg's capabilities, discuss its limitations, and explore the implications for data architects. A Brief History Lesson: Hadoop's Legacy Hadoop, once hailed as a groundbreaking solution, ultimately failed to live up to its expectations due to its inherent complexity. Many organizations struggled to navigate distributed clusters, fine-tune configurations, and mitigate issues like data fragmentation. Iceberg aims to learn from Hadoop's mistakes and provide a more streamlined and efficient solution.