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Why It’s Time to Reevaluate Quality Control Methods in Data Labeling

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What if the foundation of your AI models is built on flawed data without you knowing? The era of AI data labeling has undergone a dramatic transformation. What once involved straightforward tasks, such as answering “Is there a cat in this image?” or drawing bounding boxes around clearly defined objects, now demands sophisticated data preparation. Modern data labeling is far more complex: multi-modal datasets require deep semantic understanding, subjective judgments vary across cultures, and edge cases necessitate contextual understanding. Traditional quality control frameworks, designed for simpler, more objective labeling tasks, are no longer adequate to meet these challenges.

Implementing Write-Through Cache for Real-Time Data Processing: A Scalable Approach

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Real-time data processing systems often struggle with balancing performance and data consistency when handling high volumes of transactions. This article explores how a write-through local cache can optimize performance. Introduction to Write-Through Caches A write-through cache is a caching strategy where data is written to both the cache and the backing store simultaneously. This approach ensures that the cache always contains the most recent data while maintaining consistency with the underlying data store.

The Death of Static Rules: Making Microservices Smart, Flexible and Easy to Change

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Hey, team! Lately I have hit a wall, my microservices are so dominated with hardcoded rules that adjusting even the smallest nuance in policy was like disarming a bomb. I'm going to take you on my journey from messy if/else trees to clean, policy-driven microservices that update themselves (no redeploys). This will include every step from zero (no experience required) to hero, as well as some real-world examples, some questions for you to ponder and ideas you can use today. Let's go! What’s Wrong With Hardcoded Rules? A Simple Example—and Why It Sucks Let's say you are building an e-commerce checkout service. The service needs to charge a small surcharge when customers are located in certain countries. So, you write:

Keep Your Search Cluster Fit: Essential Health Checks to Keep Elasticsearch Healthy

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Elasticsearch (ES) is a powerful and distributed search and analytics engine, widely adopted for full-text search, logging, metrics, and real-time analytics. As the cornerstone of many data-driven systems, maintaining Elasticsearch’s health is crucial to ensure continuous availability, performance, and data integrity. A degraded or failing ES cluster can disrupt mission-critical applications, increase latency, or even cause data loss. To keep your Elasticsearch environment running smoothly, regular health checks must be conducted. These checks help detect early warning signs—such as disk saturation, unbalanced shards, or failed nodes before they escalate into critical failures. However, performing these tasks manually can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially in production environments with many nodes and indices.

Integration Testing AI Prompts With Ollama and Spring TestContainers

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AI features are becoming common in modern applications. If your Spring Boot app uses large language models (LLMs), it’s important to test how those models respond to real prompts. This helps you catch issues early and keeps your app reliable. In this article, you’ll learn how to write integration tests for AI prompts using Spring TestContainers and Ollama. You’ll see how to set up your environment, write prompt tests, and apply good testing practices - all using standard JUnit and Spring Boot.

Implementing Budget Policies and Budget Limits on Databricks

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This guide walks us through the steps to implement Budget Policies and Budget Policy limits on Serverless Compute in Databricks to effectively and accurately compute the costs incurred for compute usage. This guide covers step by step process of the implementation on the data platform to monitor and account for the cost incurred effectively. Pre-Requisites Databricks Admin access to set policies, view usage, manage tokens Cluster Policy enabled to restrict compute types, enforce limits Tags in place for team/project-level cost tracking REST API/token access for automation and enforcement Reporting tools to visualize and alert on usage Communication plan to ensure user awareness and adoption Introduction Databricks becomes central to analytics and AI pipelines, it's crucial to balance performance with cost control. Serverless compute simplifies scalability, but without budget policies and usage limits, costs can spiral.

Tuples and Records (Part 1): What They Mean for JavaScript Performance and Predictability

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JavaScript continually evolves to address modern development needs. Its latest updates often reflect trends in functional programming and immutable data handling. Two upcoming additions to the language, Tuples and Records, aim to simplify immutability while enhancing efficiency and developer experience. This article delves into these new features, discussing their purpose, syntax, benefits, and use cases.

Development of System Configuration Management: Handling Exclusive Configurations and Associated Templates

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Series Overview This article is Part 2.3 of a multi-part series: "Development of system configuration management." The complete series:

MCP for Agentic Systems: The Missing Protocol for Autonomous AI

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Introduction: Why Agentic Systems Need MCP Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized communication framework specifically designed to manage complex, stateful interactions between AI agents and backend infrastructure. If you've moved beyond simple LLM completions and are building agentic applications, you've likely experienced the complexity. An agent, unlike a basic chatbot, perceives, reasons, plans, and acts dynamically. Managing its evolving state — plans, internal reasoning, tool usage history, and environmental understanding — rapidly becomes complex, brittle, and difficult to scale using traditional REST APIs. MCP provides a structured solution, centralizing state management and enabling clean, maintainable agent implementations.

Toward Explainable AI (Part 4): Bridging Theory and Practice—Beyond Explainability, What Else Is Needed

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Series reminder: This series explores how explainability in AI helps build trust, ensure accountability, and align with real-world needs, from foundational principles to practical use cases. Previously, in Part III: The Two Major Categories of Explainable AI Techniques. How XAI methods help open the black box.

Development of System Configuration Management: Building the CLI and API

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Series Overview This article is Part 2.2 of a multi-part series: "Development of system configuration management." The complete series:

Beyond Keys and Values: Structuring Data in Redis

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Redis is a well known, open source, in-memory data store. By design, it prioritizes speed, making reads exceptionally faster. Most of us are familiar with various caching techniques such as Cache-Aside, Write-Through, Write-Behind, Read-Through etc.

Building Recommendation Engines With AI and SQL

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Providing personalized experiences is key to engaging users and driving business growth. From e-commerce giants suggesting products you'll love to streaming services curating your next binge-watch, recommendation engines are at the heart of enhanced user engagement and satisfaction. Recommendation engines, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leveraging the power of Big Data, are at the forefront of this revolution. In my last article, we explored how analytics is evolving with the integration of ML and SQL. Here, I want to talk about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data / SQL can be combined to build powerful recommendation engines, leveraging your existing data infrastructure to deliver tailored insights.

Practical Guide to Snowflake Performance Tuning With SQL and AI Enhancements

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If you're like many data practitioners who use Snowflake, odds are you've had moments when your queries got slow… at precisely the time everyone was desperate to get answers fast. Or maybe your compute expenses were through the roof during peak times, leaving you wondering: "How do I make Snowflake faster and smarter without going broke?" I've been there. And after so many performance tuning sessions, trawling slow queries, crawling QUERY_HISTORY, and analyzing patterns across multiple environments, I've gathered 13 battle-tested techniques that can really make a difference to your Snowflake performance, saving time, cutting costs, and improving overall query efficiency.

Designing Scalable Ingestion and Access Layers for Policy and Enforcement Data

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In trust and safety systems, the ability to access real-time signals — such as risk scores, policy flags, or enforcement states — is critical for preventing abuse and enabling secure, automated decision-making. These systems must ingest and expose high-volume data at low latency, often to serve machine learning models, rules engines, or enforcement workflows. Traditional database systems often fail to meet the low-latency, high-throughput demands of these workloads. In response, platforms are increasingly combining Apache Spark for scalable data ingestion with in-memory data grids to support sub-second access to mission-critical data.

How to Understand Emergent Behavior in Agentic AI: Chaos or Intelligence?

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Introduction: The Emergence Dilemma Emergent behaviour in agentic AI is quickly becoming one of the most intriguing phenomena in modern software systems. It refers to the way unexpected, often complex behaviours can arise from relatively simple components, especially when those components are allowed to interact in open-ended environments. In the case of language model-driven agents, we’re seeing systems that do far more than just respond to prompts: they plan, adapt, use tools, store context, and even come up with solutions that weren’t directly requested. Frameworks like LangChain’s ReAct pattern, Auto-GPT’s recursive planning loops, and CrewAI’s multi-agent structures have accelerated this trend. Developers report agents that decompose tasks on their own, generate internal workflows, or autonomously call API seven when none of these actions were explicitly part of the prompt. These behaviours emerge not from deterministic logic, but from probabilistic reasoning shaped by context, memory, and tool interactions.

Cry and Authenticate How AI is Changing Security

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I constantly have thoughts buzzing in my head, and I need to throw them somewhere or they'll just fly away. So I thought I’d write a few articles about how our lives are becoming more like the movies and games we grew up with. Let’s get started. Today, let’s talk about security and all the issues that come with it. Do you remember that you always use a billion passwords to access your bank, your apps, your services, your entertainment, and so on? There's two-factor authentication and all that jazz, but emails and accounts still get hacked, stolen, and used in ways we don't understand. It’s unfair, right?

From Runtime Fires to Pre‑Flight Control: A Gatekeeper Model for Spark SQL

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A Quick Back‑Story It was 2 a.m., the cluster dashboard was glowing red, and the only thing separating me from a full night’s sleep was a stray comma in a user‑supplied query. Spark had happily fired up a handful of executors before realising the SQL was garbage. Cue wasted compute, angry Slack pings, and a small dent in our budget. After the third “why is the job queue jammed again?” post‑mortem, I decided to build a gatekeeper: something that could shout “Stop!” the moment a query looked fishy — before Spark touched a single core.

How Healthy Is Your Data in the Age of AI? An In-Depth Checklist to Assess Data Accuracy, Governance, and AI Readiness

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Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Scaling Intelligence With the Modern Data Stack. Data has evolved from a byproduct of business processes to a vital asset for innovation and strategic decision making, and even more so as AI's capabilities continue to advance and are integrated further into the fabric of software development. The effectiveness of AI relies heavily on high-quality, reliable data; without it, even the most advanced AI tools can fail. Therefore, organizations must ask: How healthy is our data?

Reclaiming Oracle Tablespace Space Using HWM Logic: On-Prem and Cloud-Aware Automation

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In enterprise-grade Oracle environments—whether fully on-premises, hybrid, or actively transitioning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—efficient storage management remains a mission-critical responsibility for database administrators (DBAs). One of the persistent challenges DBAs face is space wastage within tablespaces. Oracle allocates extents dynamically as segments grow, but does not automatically shrink datafiles once the underlying segments are dropped, truncated, or reorganized. As a result, unused yet allocated space accumulates over time, unnecessarily inflating datafiles and leading to inefficiencies in storage, backup, and performance. This article introduces a robust PL/SQL script designed to automate the reclamation of unused space in Oracle tablespaces by calculating the High Water Mark (HWM) and issuing safe, conditional resize commands. This approach not only avoids common pitfalls of naive datafile shrinking but also integrates seamlessly with operational and maintenance routines. The script is applicable across a variety of Oracle deployment models, including:

Development of System Configuration Management: Working With Secrets, IaC, and Deserializing Data in Go

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Series Overview This article is Part 2.1 of a multi-part series: "Development of system configuration management." The complete series:

Implementing Scalable IoT Architectures on Azure

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The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises smart devices connected to a network, sending and receiving large amounts of data to and from other devices, which generates a substantial amount of data to be processed and analyzed. Edge computing, a strategy for computing on location where data is collected or used, allows IoT data to be gathered and processed at the edge, rather than sending the data back to a data center or cloud. Together, IoT and edge computing are a powerful way to rapidly analyze data in real-time.

Blockchain, AI, and Edge Computing: Redefining Modern App Development

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The overall landscape of app development is continuing with a transformative shift that is driven by various latest technologies, including AI or artificial intelligence, edge computing, and blockchain. These innovations are enhancing the efficiency and functionality of the apps, catering to new layers of security, improving scalability, and enhancing the user experience. The use of the latest technologies is high among app development companies, and they are trying to optimize app performance through this technology. This article will examine the interconnection of these technologies with others and their specific contributions and impacts on the development process of modern apps.

Digital Twins Reborn: How AI Is Finally Fulfilling the Promise of IoT

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Ten years ago, I wrote an article for DZone on The Future of IoT. When General Electric unveiled their digital twin technology for aircraft engines, we were on the cusp of an industrial revolution. The idea was compelling: create virtual replicas of physical assets that could be monitored, analyzed, and optimized in real-time. However, as many early IoT enthusiasts discovered, the gap between concept and widespread implementation proved wider than anticipated. Fast-forward to 2025, and digital twins are experiencing a renaissance, powered by advances in artificial intelligence addressing the challenges that once held the technology back.

Wait, What Format Is That? A Cross—Domain Guide for Everyone

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Are you an Engineering or Technology Leader who is looking up “what’s that file format”, while sitting in a meeting where they are throwing jargon about file formats? Are you an Architect who has switched domains only to discover that there is an entire jungle of file formats that you are unfamiliar with, and now need to integrate into the solution you are building?

Optimizing Docker Container Logging: Strategies for Scalability and Performance

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In modern microservices, logging is vital for observability, performance, and incident response. Traditional logging fails at scale, causing latency and storage issues. This article details efficient logging strategies for Docker containers, including log driver selection and centralized aggregation, to mitigate bottlenecks and build a robust, scalable logging infrastructure for any deployment at scale. Understanding Log Drivers and Types Log drivers capture container console output (stdout/stderr) and route it to local files or remote services. If a log driver fails to deliver logs (e.g., remote destination unreachable), the Docker daemon thread can block, potentially causing thread exhaustion.

Seamless Storage: Configuring Kubernetes PVC for Windows Shared Folders With SMB

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Introduction In the new cloud-native era, it is important to be able to scale and manage applications efficiently. Kubernetes, as a leading container orchestration platform, provides strong features for managing storage through Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs). Mapping Kubernetes to traditional enterprise storage solutions, such as Windows shared folders via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, can be especially tricky, however. In this post, you’ll see how to configure Kubernetes PVCs to simply connect to Windows shared folders so that you can leverage your existing infrastructure without losing the scalability and flexibility benefits that Kubernetes has to offer. From app migration of older applications to building new applications, understanding this integration will bring your operational performance to the next level and allow you to achieve seamless workflows. Join us as we walk through the steps of creating this essential connection and getting the most from your Kubernetes configuration. Scenario Imagine a bustling enterprise that has relied on a critical application running on a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) for years. This application, developed in .NET, has been seamlessly authenticating to a shared folder on a separate server using a dedicated service account. However, as the organization embraces modern cloud-native practices, the decision is made to migrate the application to a more agile environment — Linux containers running .NET 8.

Scaling Real-Time Data Systems With DataOps: Principles, Practices, and Use Cases

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Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report, Data Engineering: Scaling Intelligence With the Modern Data Stack. Real-time decision making is no longer a competitive advantage; it's becoming a baseline expectation. From fraud detection to personalized recommendations, modern systems are expected to process and respond to user activity within milliseconds. But while demand for real-time data has exploded, many engineering teams are still struggling with brittle pipelines, silent failures, and fragile deployments.

How To Build an AI-Powered Search Bar With Vector Embeddings and OpenAI

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When you search for something in a search bar, but the results seem off from what you wanted to find, you join many others who have experienced this. We've all been there before — you search for "cost" only to come away with nothing because the doc only says "price." That's the pitfall of traditional keyword search — it matches words, not meaning.

Understanding Memory Page Sizes on Arm64

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One of the ways that the Arm64 architecture is different from x86 is the ability to configure the size of memory pages in the Memory Management Unit (MMU) of the CPU to 4K, 16K, or 64K. This article summarizes what memory page size is, how to configure page size on Linux systems, and when it might make sense to use a different page size in your applications. Introduction to Memory Page Size As we previously discussed in Diagnosing and Fixing a Page Fault Performance Issue with Arm64 Atomics, operating systems present a virtual memory address space to applications, and map physical memory pages to virtual memory addresses using a page table. The CPU then provides a mechanism called the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) to ensure that recently accessed pages of memory can be identified and read faster using L1 or L2 CPU cache.

Apigee Edge to Apigee in GCP Migration—Replacing ExtensionCallout policy With MessageLogging Policy for Logging

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As more companies migrate their APIs to cloud, Apigee on Google Cloud provides a reliable solution to manage and secure APIs. For Apigee Edge (a SaaS platform) users, this migration allows them to leverage the cloud-native capabilities of Google Cloud to improve scalability, performance, and security. Benefits of Migration Cloud-Native Benefits: Apigee on Google Cloud provides seamless integration with applications hosted in GCP, making it easier to manage APIs. Scalability and Performance: Running on Google Cloud’s infrastructure, Apigee gains from its scalability, reliability, and strong performance. Security Features: Apigee integrates with Google Cloud Armor to provide enhanced protection against threats and DDoS attacks. Integrated with GCP Services: Apigee connects with other Google Cloud services like IAM, Logging, and Monitoring. Enhanced Features: Apigee provides various new features that were not available in Apigee Edge.

Data Splits in Machine Learning: Training, Validation, and Test Sets

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In machine learning, the integrity of your data pipeline is foundational. How you split and utilize your data impacts model performance as much as the algorithms themselves. Decisions made early, for data partitioning, inform not just development but deployment and ongoing monitoring. Effective data splitting separates model development from validation and performance assessment, ensuring reproducibility and meaningful results. This article explores the principles behind data splitting in machine learning. We’ll clarify why splits matter and examine core concepts: training, validation, and test sets. We then discuss advanced splitting strategies and present practical code samples and visualizations. Finally, you’ll find actionable guidelines for robust, production-ready machine learning workflows.

Toward Explainable AI (Part 3): Bridging Theory and Practice—When Explaining AI Is No Longer a Choice

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Series reminder: This series explores how explainability in AI helps build trust, ensure accountability, and align with real-world needs, from foundational principles to practical use cases. Previously, in Part II: The Two Major Categories of Explainable AI Techniques. How XAI methods help open the black box

Benchmarking Storage Performance (Latency, Throughput) Using Python

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Understanding the performance of your AWS S3 storage specifically, how quickly you can read and write data is essential for both cost optimization and application speed. By running Python scripts that measure latency and throughput, you can compare different S3 storage classes, identify hidden bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions about where and how to store your data. This article breaks down the fundamentals of S3 benchmarking, provides working Python examples, and shows how to interpret the results even if you’re not a cloud infrastructure expert.

From Simple Lookups to Agentic Reasoning: The Rise of Smart RAG Systems

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique in large language models (LLMs) that enhances text generation by incorporating external data retrieval into the process. Unlike traditional LLM usage that relies solely on the model’s pre-trained knowledge, RAG allows an AI to “look things up” in outside sources during generation. This significantly improves the factual accuracy and relevance of responses by grounding them in real-time information, helping mitigate issues like hallucinations (fabricated or inaccurate facts) and outdated knowledge. In essence, RAG gives AI a dynamic memory beyond its static training data. However, the story of RAG doesn’t end with the basic idea of retrieval + generation. Over time, a series of RAG architectures have emerged – each one introduced to solve specific shortcomings of the earlier approaches. What began as a simple concept has grown into a sophisticated ecosystem of patterns, each designed to tackle real-world challenges such as maintaining conversational context, handling multiple data sources, and improving retrieval relevance. In this article, we’ll explore the major RAG architectures in an evolutionary sequence. We’ll see how each new architecture builds upon and resolves the limitations of its predecessor, using visual diagrams to illustrate the problem each one tackles and the solution it provides.

Building AI-Driven Anomaly Detection Model to Secure Industrial Automation

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Introduction In modern industrial automation, security is a primary requirement to keep the regular operation of industrial connected devices without disruption. However, the rise of cyber risks also significantly impacts the industry’s sustainable operation. The evolving cyberattacks can affect the overall industrial systems that control industrial processes and systems. Modern attacks are more targeted and designed to evade detection by traditional defensive approaches. A proactive approach is necessary, rather than a defensive strategy, to tackle these evolving cyber threats. This article presents a use case for building an anomaly detection framework using artificial intelligence (AI). More specifically, a hybrid learning model consisting of a deep learning LSTM model for feature extraction and a machine learning (ML) classifier to detect and predict anomalous behavior in industrial automation. The evolution of next-generation technologies, also known as Industry 4.0, has evolved to meet the challenges and requirements of optimal operations and efficient sustainability in industrial automation networks. In this modern era, the development of advanced mobile networks (5G), big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides excellent opportunities for better and more optimal industrial operations. The integration of Mobile Network, for example, enables the seamless operation of millions of IIoT devices connected simultaneously with minimal bandwidth and low latency. However, apart from excellent opportunities, these technological paradigms also open a new door to cyber-criminals that can affect the sustainability and operations of industrial networks.

Oracle Standard Edition vs PostgreSQL (Open Source): Performance Benchmarking for Cost-Conscious Teams

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Relational databases sit at the core of nearly every application stack—powering everything from customer transactions to critical business reporting. Choosing the right database is no small decision: it influences application performance, scalability, maintenance overhead, and ultimately, total cost of ownership. Two of the most popular contenders in the OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) space are Oracle Standard Edition (SE) and PostgreSQL (open source). Oracle SE has a long-standing reputation in the enterprise world for its transactional integrity, advanced concurrency controls, and rock-solid durability. It’s a go-to choice for industries that demand reliability, like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. On the other hand, PostgreSQL has emerged as a developer favorite in recent years, celebrated for its performance, extensibility, and, of course, its open-source licensing model that removes vendor lock-in.

A Comparative Analysis of GitHub Copilot and Copilot Agent: Architectures, Capabilities, and Impact in Software Development

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how software is built, tested, and maintained. GitHub Copilot leads this shift as a smart coding assistant that suggests real-time code completions by learning from billions of lines of public code. As the complexity of development work continues to grow, the need for an AI tool that extends beyond code completion will arise. Enter GitHub Copilot Agent, a more autonomous assistant that can comprehend natural language, traverse multiple project files, and perform more advanced development tasks such as refactoring, debugging, and generating unit tests.

Java 21 Virtual Threads vs Cached and Fixed Threads

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Introduction Concurrent programming remains a crucial part of building scalable, responsive Java applications. Over the years, Java has steadily enhanced its multithreaded programming capabilities. This article reviews the evolution of concurrency from Java 8 through Java 21, highlighting important improvements and the impactful addition of virtual threads introduced in Java 21. Starting with Java 8, the concurrency API saw significant enhancements such as Atomic Variables, Concurrent Maps, and the integration of lambda expressions to enable more expressive parallel programming.

Zero-Latency Data Analytics for Modern PostgreSQL Applications

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On July 23, 2025, AWS announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to include or exclude specific databases and tables, tailoring replication to your needs. You can also use AWS CloudFormation to automate the configuration and deployment of resources needed for zero-ETL integration. Zero-ETL integrations make it simpler to analyze data from Amazon RDS to Amazon Redshift by removing the need for you to build and manage complex data pipelines and helping you derive holistic insights across many applications. Within seconds of data being written to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, the data is replicated to Amazon Redshift. Using zero-ETL, you can enhance data analysis on near-real-time data with the rich analytics capabilities of Amazon Redshift, including integrated ML, Spark support, and materialized views.

The Benefits of AI Micromanagement

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TL; DR: AI Micromanagement Has Its Merits The benefits of AI micromanagement show up when you feed ChatGPT 5 progressively more context about your actual situation. I tested five prompts for a retrospective design: from zero context to full team background with extended reasoning time. Case 1 produced generic “Scrum Oscars” nonsense. Case 5 delivered sophisticated root-cause analysis targeting chronic top-down thrash, dependency gridlock, and psychological safety erosion. The difference? Strategic context curation. More context created better solutions, but only when that context was relevant and structured.

Pulumi: Modern Infrastructure as Code With Real Programming Languages

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After a long journey with Terraform, when Terraform introduced HCL2, I started exploring for an alternative IaC tool to write code in my programming language of choice, and that's when I found Pulumi. Founded in 2017, Pulumi has emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional IaC tools by bridging the gap between software development and infrastructure management. Pulumi is a modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform that enables developers and infrastructure teams to create, deploy, and manage cloud resources using familiar programming languages instead of domain-specific languages (DSLs) or YAML templates.

How to Implement Kill Switch Feature Flags in a Spring Boot Application

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Kill switches are a type of feature flag that allows you to shut off features in your application quickly. They are useful for: Emergency shutoffs of external APIs and services. Responding to unexpected spam or traffic spikes. Other operational incidents where you need to quickly put the brakes on without causing additional disruption. In this tutorial, you will learn to add a kill switch to a Spring Boot application, using the LaunchDarkly Java SDK. This example will utilize the Motivational Messages API as a data source here since it’s free, doesn’t require authentication, and gives us the message we might need to read today.

Transforming Data into Decisions: Crafting Generative AI That Delivers Accurate Intelligence

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Introduction: Generative AI, driven by advancements in machine learning (ML), has transformed various industries by enabling machines to create text, images, music, and even code. However, developing robust, reliable, and personalized generative systems involves more than just large language models. Crucial components include data validation, thorough testing, personalized ranking, and structured reasoning (for example, chain-of-thought prompting). These elements are essential for improving the accuracy, relevance, and adaptability of generative AI systems. This article will examine how integrating rigorous data practices, machine learning techniques such as personalized re-ranking, and reasoning strategies can improve the performance of generative AI systems. We will also introduce visual aids to clarify concepts such as linear classification, validation pipelines, and customer-centric ranking systems.

Debugging Distributed ML Systems

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My ML model for categorizing suddenly started classifying groceries as entertainment expenses. But why? What happened? I was looking at my personal finance dashboard and noticed something was completely off. The logs from each service looked normal. The health checks were green. Yet somehow, my grocery store purchases were being flagged as entertainment, and my restaurant bills were showing up as utilities.

A Beginner’s Guide to Hyperparameter Tuning: From Theory to Practice

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There are many ways to approach machine learning, and selecting the right algorithm is just the first step. What a model can truly offer in terms of performance can be distilled to how well it is fine-tuned. Here, the analogy is the adjusting of dials on a supercharged engine, which is otherwise called hyperparameters. Hyperparameter tuning is the act of modifying the parameters of a model — that is, the parameters defining the model's architecture — to achieve optimal performance. Choose it wisely and your project will achieve optimal efficiency and flexibility. Oppositely, if it’s screwed up, the model may underperform or overlearn.

AI Data Security: Core Concepts, Risks, and Proven Practices

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AI is everywhere now, and cybersecurity is no exception. If you’ve noticed your spam filter getting smarter or your bank flagging sketchy transactions faster, there’s a good chance AI is behind it. But the same tech that helps defend data can also become a liability. Today, we want to talk about AI data security and why it matters; how AI is changing the way we protect information, where things can go wrong, and what steps actually make a difference.

Agent-to-Agent Protocol: Implementation and Architecture With Strands Agents

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The future of AI lies not in isolated agents but in collaborative networks of specialized agents working together. The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol defines how AI agents discover, communicate, and coordinate to solve complex problems that exceed individual agent capabilities. This technical guide explores implementing multi-agent systems using the Strands Agents SDK, an open-source framework that takes a model-driven approach to building AI agents with seamless collaboration capabilities.

Modernizing Chaos Engineering: The Shift From Traditional to Event-Driven

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Imagine you're a car manufacturer. Traditionally, you schedule crash tests every few months using standard scenarios — front impact, side impact, and rollover. These tests are helpful, but they don’t guarantee how the car will perform with actual drivers, under real conditions, during unexpected events like icy roads or sudden brake failures. Now imagine that instead of static crash tests, your vehicles have smart sensors that simulate critical failures at the moment drivers make changes, like switching to sport mode, engaging cruise control, or driving in a snowstorm. These real-time, event-triggered safety checks provide far more relevant insights, helping you design safer cars for real-world situations.

The Ephemeral Cloud: A New Blueprint for Infrastructure Efficiency With Crossplane and kube-green

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We were all sold a compelling vision of cloud computing: one filled with agility, endless scalability, and remarkable cost savings. Yet, for many of us in the trenches, the daily reality looks quite different. We find ourselves wrestling with an infrastructure model built on long-lived, static environments for development, testing, and staging. This old way of working has quietly become a massive drain on our resources, creating financial waste, operational headaches, and a growing list of security and environmental debts. This isn't just one problem; it's a vicious cycle. The friction in our daily operations directly fuels the financial, security, and environmental burdens. To break free, we need more than just a new tool; we need to fundamentally rethink how we provision, manage, and consume infrastructure.