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Time Series Analysis: VAR-Model-As-A-Service Using Flask and MinIO

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VAR-As-A-Service is an MLOps approach for the unification and reuse of statistical models and machine learning models deployment pipelines. It is the second of a series of articles that is built on top of that project, representing experiments with various statistical and machine learning models, data pipelines implemented using existing DAG tools, and storage services, both cloud-based and alternative on-premises solutions. This article focuses on the model file storage using an approach also applicable and used for machine learning models. The implemented storage is based on MinIO as an AWS S3-compatible object storage service. Furthermore, the article gives an overview of alternative storage solutions and outlines the benefits of object-based storage. The first article of the series (Time Series Analysis: VARMAX-As-A-Service) compares statistical and machine learning models as being both mathematical models and provides an end-to-end implementation of a VARMAX-based statistical model for macroeconomic forecast using a Python library called statsmodels. The model is deployed as a REST service using Python Flask and Apache web server, packaged in a docker container. The high-level architecture of the application is depicted in the following picture:

How Vector Search Can Optimize Retail Trucking Routes

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 21:31:51

Vectors and vector search are key components of large language models (LLMs), but they are useful in a host of other applications across many use cases that you might not have considered. How about the most efficient way to deliver retail goods? In two prior articles in this series, I told a story of a hypothetical contractor who was hired to help implement AI/ML solutions at a big-box retailer, and then explored how this distributed systems and AI specialist used vector search to drive results with customer promotions at the company. Now, I’ll walk you through how this contractor uses vector search to optimize trucking routes.

Wild West to the Agile Manifesto [Video]

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 21:01:51

Hands-On Agile #52: Jim Highsmith and the Agile Manifesto On August 17, 2023, we had the opportunity to interview Jim Highsmith about his path to Agile product development: From Wild West to the co-authoring of the Agile Manifesto. Jim has penned numerous books on the subject and was honored with the International Stevens Award in 2005. He is a prominent figure in the Agile community, co-authoring the Agile Manifesto and the Declaration of Interdependence for Project Leaders.

An Approach to Process Skewed Dataset in High Volume Distributed Data Processing

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 20:01:51

In the modern computing landscape, we have a lot of advancement and rapid development in the field of computing. The processing paradigm is changing so frequently with so many distributed processing software available in the market. These software provides powerful features to process voluminous data with a very scalable architecture, thus providing flexibility to dynamically scale up and scale down depending on the processing needs. Many of these distributed software are used by organizations as part of tech modernization initiatives to replace their old legacy applications to gain benefits leveraging scalability and cloud-native features and processing data faster using modern processing techniques.

Writing Reusable SQL Queries for Your Application With DbVisualizer Scripts

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 19:16:51

The most outstanding data scientists and engineers are frequently distinguished from others by their ability to build reusable code. It is essential to have this skill, especially if you oversee database operations, which have a significant impact on how smoothly your application runs. In other words, your codebase will function poorly if it contains pointless or repetitious code, but it will work well if it has useful or reusable code. This tutorial will cover writing some popular SQL queries executed regularly in most applications, making them reusable, and saving them with the features available in DbVisualizer.

Navigating the Skies

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 19:16:51

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Database Systems Trend Report.For more: Read the Report In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses across the globe are embracing cloud computing to streamline operations, reduce costs, and drive innovation. At the heart of this digital transformation lies the critical role of cloud databases — the backbone of modern data management. With the ever-growing volume of data generated for business, education, and technology, the importance of scalability, security, and cloud services has become paramount in choosing the right cloud vendor.

Build Quicker With Zipper: Building a Ping Pong Ranking App Using TypeScript Functions

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 19:16:51

Seasoned software engineers long for the good old days when web development was simple. You just needed a few files and a server to get up and running. No complicated infrastructure, no endless amount of frameworks and libraries, and no build tools. Just some ideas and some code hacked together to make an app come to life. Whether or not this romanticized past was actually as great as we think it was, developers today agree that software engineering has gotten complicated. There are too many choices with too much setup involved.

Causes and Remedies of Poison Pill in Apache Kafka

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 19:01:51

A poison pill is a message deliberately sent to a Kafka topic, designed to consistently fail when consumed, regardless of the number of consumption attempts. Poison Pill scenarios are frequently underestimated and can arise if not properly accounted for. Neglecting to address them can result in severe disruptions to the seamless operation of an event-driven system. The poison pill for various reasons:

Why Are There So Many Definitions of Lead Time?

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 18:01:51

When someone mentions lead times in software delivery, it's often unclear whether they mean the definition of lead times from Lean Software Development, the one from DevOps, or something else entirely. In this post, I look at why there are so many definitions of lead time and how you can put them to use.

Gossips on Cryptography: Part 1 and 2

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 15:31:51

In this blog series, We will learn about encryption and decryption basics in a very casual fashion. We will start discussing from origin of cryptography and then learn about modern techniques. One of the important and main techs in encryption is Cryptography.

MQTT Sparkplug: Bridging IT and OT in Industry 4.0

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 14:31:51

Industrial companies are always looking to improve their competitiveness in terms of productivity, profitability, flexibility, quality, and agility. Most of them will use Industry 4.0 technologies to solve this problem. By investing more in the digital transformation of the factory, they want to achieve a high level of automation, better product quality tracking records, production scale-up, and sustainable development for the organizations. But before they go any further in budgeting, they should take a step back and consider whether their factory's IT and OT infrastructure can support a large number of additional new systems and equipment. This is an important consideration that most companies ignore. At the heart of Industry 4.0 is the IIoT, which enables factories to connect their machines, sensors, robots, and other devices to the Internet and each other. One of the key challenges in implementing the IIoT is choosing the right communication standard that can meet the demands of Industry 4.0. MQTT Sparkplug is a communication protocol designed specifically for IIoT, and in this blog, we will dive into MQTT Sparkplug and see what it brings to Industry 4.0.

WordPress Deployment: Docker, Nginx, Apache, and SSL

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 13:16:51

Simplify the deployment of your WordPress website with our easy-to-follow guide. Use Docker Compose, Nginx, Apache, and SSL for a seamless installation process. We will also create volumes so the changes or updates will be preserved while the container restarts.

Stateless vs. Stateful Widgets: Make the Right Choice for Your Flutter App

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 13:01:51

Flutter has two types of widgets: stateless widgets and stateful widgets. The purpose of this article is to explain what they are, how they differ when they can be used, and how to create them. We will also provide some examples and tips to help you understand and use them effectively in your Flutter apps. What Are Stateless and Stateful Widgets? A widget is either stateless or stateful, depending on whether it can change its appearance or behavior in response to events or data changes.

Designing Databases for Distributed Systems

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 12:31:51

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Database Systems Trend Report.For more: Read the Report Database design is a critical factor in microservices and cloud-native solutions because a microservices-based architecture results in distributed data. Instead of data management happening in a single process, multiple processes can manipulate the data. The rise of cloud computing has made data even more distributed.

Adopting Agile Practices for Workforce Management: Benefits, Challenges, and Practices

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 04:01:50

At the core of agile is the better ability to respond to change (agility), less defined roles and top-to-down control (decentralized decision making), and increased visibility and promoted trust (collaboration). Agile methodology has proved its value in software development with reduced risks of product failure and delivering value in the quickest possible time. Resulting in minimized losses and maximized productivity, something workforce management tries to achieve.

Implementing Stronger RBAC and Multitenancy in Kubernetes Using Istio

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Background of Multitenancy DevOps and solution architects often implement RBAC and multitenancy in their Kubernetes infrastructure to achieve isolation of workspace and allow authorized persons to access resources with least privilege resources. The implementation of RBAC and multitenancy can be very simple or complicated, and this depends of the following parameters:

How to Deploy a Startup Script to an Integration Server Running in an IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Environment

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 02:46:50

In a Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) environment, the IBM App Connect operator does a good job monitoring the Integration Server pods and will restart any pods where the Integration Server fails. Either in the rare event that it has crashed or because it is no longer responsive to liveness checks. It is worth noting that by far the most common reason for an Integration Server pod to fail in one of these ways is because it has insufficient resources to process its workload however there are some cases where the user may wish to initiate a restart in response to some other external criteria. In this example, we will consider the case where user supplied Java code in a Java Compute Node has caused an OutOfMemory error. In this instance, the error would not ordinarily be fatal to the Integration Server; however, a user may wish to restart the Integration Server on receiving an error of this type. The same approach can be generalized to any error condition which can be detected in a file on the IS container internal file system. We also assume that the target environment is a Cloud Pak for Integration instance; however, the same approach can be applied to any IBM App Connect Enterprise Operator installation including on plain Kubernetes. Indeed, some of the elements we discuss in this article can be further generalized to traditional on-premise environments.

Future Skills in Cybersecurity: Nurturing Talent for the Evolving Threatscape

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 02:31:50

As we stand at the precipice of an increasingly digitized world, the challenges of emerging cyber threats are becoming more complex. With 20 years of experience as a cybersecurity professional, I have seen this evolution firsthand. The need for skilled professionals who can navigate these complexities has never been more critical. In this article, I aim to highlight the essential skills required for future cybersecurity experts and how we can effectively cultivate such talent. 1. Comprehensive Understanding of Emerging Technologies Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing are drastically transforming not just businesses but also the field of cybersecurity. These technologies bring new opportunities and efficiencies and introduce novel vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Therefore, future cybersecurity professionals must understand these technologies inside out. They should be able to anticipate potential security risks associated with these technologies and devise effective countermeasures proactively.

An Introduction to Build Servers and Continuous Integration

Aggregated on: 2023-09-25 02:16:50

When you're developing and deploying software, one of the first things to figure out is how to take your code and deploy your working application to a production environment where people can interact with your software. Most development teams understand the importance of version control to coordinate code commits and build servers to compile and package their software, but continuous integration (CI) is a big topic.

Bad Software Examples: How Much Can Poor Code Hurt You?

Aggregated on: 2023-09-24 03:01:50

Bad software exists; everyone knows that. In the imperfect world, a set of a few coincidences, e.g., human errors, faulty code, or unforeseen circumstances, can cause a huge failure even in pretty good systems. Today let’s go through real-world examples where catastrophic software failures or errors caused huge losses and even cost a human life. UK Post Office Software Bug Led to Convicting 736 Innocent Employees The UK Post Office has been using software called Horizon for 20 years. It had bugs that caused it to report that accounts under the employees’ control were missing money. It looked like an employee stole thousands. As a result 736 post office operators were convicted. People lost jobs, families, and one woman was sent to prison while pregnant. One man committed suicide after the system showed his account was missing £100,000.

Hugging Face Is the New GitHub for LLMs

Aggregated on: 2023-09-24 02:16:50

Large language models (LLMs) have taken the tech industry by storm in recent years, unleashing new frontiers of innovation and disrupting everything from search to customer service. Underpinning this revolution in artificial intelligence are open ecosystems like GitHub and Hugging Face, which enable developers and companies to build, deploy and scale LLMs rapidly. Just as GitHub has become the go-to platform for software development and collaboration, Hugging Face is now emerging as the de facto hub for all things related to LLMs. The Rise of Large Language Models LLMs like GPT-3, BERT and PaLM have captured the imagination of the tech world with their ability to generate human-like text, answer questions, summarize documents and even write code based on simple text prompts. According to a McKinsey report, investments in natural language processing startups focusing on LLMs ballooned from $100 million in 2020 to over $1.5 billion in 2021.

DevOps Uses a Capability Model, Not a Maturity Model

Aggregated on: 2023-09-24 02:16:50

Your approach to DevOps is likely to be influenced by the methods and practices that came before. For organizations that gave teams autonomy to adapt their process, DevOps would have been a natural progression. Where an organization has been more prescriptive in the past, people will look for familiar tools to run a DevOps implementation, such as maturity models. In this article, I explain why a maturity model isn't appropriate and what you should use instead.

TypeScript: Useful Features

Aggregated on: 2023-09-22 22:16:49

Nowadays, it’s difficult to imagine a serious JavaScript-based application without a TypeScript superset. Interfaces, tuples, generics, and other features are well-known among TypeScript developers. While some advanced constructs may require a learning curve, they can significantly bolster your type safety. This article aims to introduce you to some of these advanced features. Type Guards Type guards help us to get info about a type within a conditional block. There are a few simple ways to check the type using in, typeof, instanceof operators, or using equality comparison (===).

Best GitHub-Like Alternatives for Machine Learning Projects

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In the rapidly advancing world of technology, the continuous search for efficient platforms to streamline Machine Learning Projects is ever-persistent. It is undeniable that GitHub has paved a smooth path for developers around the globe. However, we comprehend the necessity of diversity and innovation in this field. Hence, we bring to your notice the best GitHub-like alternatives that can revolutionize your approach to machine learning projects. Let's delve into some of these platforms that offer robust features and functionalities, which can easily give GitHub a fight. Popular GitHub Alternatives for Machine Learning Projects 1. DVC (dvc.org) Data Version Control (DVC) is a potent tool facilitating streamlined project management and collaboration. At its core, it simplifies data management by integrating closely with Git, which enables tracking changes in data and models meticulously, akin to how Git tracks code variations. This fosters a more organized approach to handling large datasets and brings in a higher degree of reproducibility, as team members can effortlessly roll back to previous versions if required.

API Design

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API design plays a critical role in enabling developers to integrate different systems, components, or services effectively. Well-designed APIs simplify the process of accessing and utilizing the functionalities provided by software systems. APIs are designed to be reusable components. Good API design allows developers to leverage existing functionality, saving time and effort by avoiding the need to reinvent the wheel.

When To Boost Your Authentication Strategy: Signs for Security Enhancement

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Authentication is undoubtedly one of the first encounters of a user when they land on your platform. Friction in the overall authentication process could be the reason for your users to switch to your competitors. A smooth authentication is the key to enhanced lead generation and conversion. Businesses are already leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies to ensure their users get a streamlined experience throughout their onboarding process.

The Illusion of Safety: Thoughts on 100% Test Coverage

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"...this is a properly tested project. We even have 85% test coverage!" told John, a coder, proudly to his colleague, Mike, whom he just met next to the coffee machine after not seeing each other for a while. Mike was not really satisfied and asked: "And what about the remaining 15%?" John stated that the part of the code in question is not really important, partially not even used anymore. And anyway, it was tested manually. And, of course, they keep adding new and new classes to the Sonar-Exclude in order to hide code, which can not be tested, from SonarQube.

The State of Data Streaming for Digital Natives (Born in the Cloud)

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This blog post explores the state of data streaming in 2023 for digital natives born in the cloud. The evolution of digital services and new business models requires real-time end-to-end visibility, fancy mobile apps, and integration with pioneering technologies like fully managed cloud services for fast time-to-market, 5G for low latency, or augmented reality for innovation. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale to improve the most innovative applications leveraging Apache Kafka. I look at trends for digital natives to explore how data streaming helps as a business enabler, including customer stories from New Relic, Wix, Expedia, Apna, Grab, and more. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

How AI Helped Us Add Vector Search to Cassandra in Six Weeks Weeks

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With the huge demand for vector search functionality that’s required to enable generative AI applications, DataStax set an extremely ambitious goal to add this capability to Apache Cassandra and Astra DB, our managed service built on Cassandra. Back in April, when I asked our chief vice president of product officer who was going to build it, he said, “Why don’t you do it?”

How To Handle Technical Debt in Scrum

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If you work in software development, you likely encounter technical debt all the time. It accumulates over time as we prioritize delivering new features over maintaining a healthy codebase. Managing technical debt, or code debt, can be a challenge. Approaching it the right way in the context of Scrum won’t just help you manage your tech debt. It can allow you to leverage it to strategically ship faster and gain a very real competitive advantage.

Reducing AI Hallucinations With Retrieval Augmented Generation

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In the rapidly evolving world of AI, large language models have come a long way, boasting impressive knowledge of the world around us. Yet LLMs, as intelligent as they are, often struggle to recognize the boundaries of their own knowledge, a shortfall that often leads them to “hallucinate” to fill in the gaps. A newly devised technique, known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), shows promise in efficiently increasing the knowledge of these LLMs and reducing the impact of hallucination by enabling prompts to be augmented with proprietary data. Navigating the Knowledge Gap in LLMs LLMs are computer models capable of comprehending and generating human-like text. They're the AI behind your digital assistant, autocorrect function, and even some of your emails. Their knowledge of the world is often immense, but it isn't perfect. Just like humans, LLMs can reach the limits of their knowledge, but instead of stopping, they tend to make educated guesses or “hallucinate” to complete the task. This can lead to results that contain inaccurate or misleading information.

Using PostgreSQL® JSON Functions To Navigate Reviews of Restaurants in India

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The original idea behind relational databases was "structure, then data": you needed to define what the data looked like before being able to insert any content. This strict data structure definition helped keeping datasets in order by verifying data types, referential integrity, and additional business conditions using dedicated constraints. But sometimes, life can't be predicted, and data can take different shapes. To enable some sort of flexibility, modern databases like PostgreSQL® started adding semistructured column options JSON, where only a formal check on the shape of the data is done.

How TIBCO Is Evolving Integration for the Multi-Cloud Era

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TIBCO recently held its annual TIBCO NEXT conference, outlining its product roadmap and strategy for modernizing its pioneering integration and analytics platform. As a trusted integration anchor for over 25 years, TIBCO aims to simplify connecting systems and data across today's complex hybrid technology landscapes. Several key themes indicate how TIBCO is adapting to emerging needs:

What Is Good Database Design?

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This is an article from DZone's 2023 Database Systems Trend Report.For more: Read the Report Good database design is essential to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity and that databases are efficient, reliable, and easy to use. The design must address the storing and retrieving of data quickly and easily while handling large volumes of data in a stable way. An experienced database designer can create a robust, scalable, and secure database architecture that meets the needs of modern data systems.

“Data Access as a Service” at Shopee: Accelerate Interactive Queries and Enhance Developer Experience With Flexible APIs

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Shopee is the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. It is a platform tailored for the region, providing customers with an easy, secure, and fast online shopping experience through strong payment and logistical support. Data Infrastructure Team The Data Infrastructure team at Shopee is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the underlying systems that support data-centric operations across the company. We work to improve the speed, cost-effectiveness, and accuracy of data flow by utilizing open-source technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, Trino, HBase, Spark, Hive, Alluxio, and Druid. Our goal is to provide a robust data platform that supports a variety of big data applications for all teams within the company.

Reverse Engineering CryptoPanic REST API

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CryptoPanic is a news aggregator website for trending news based on social sentiment. It's a good website for keeping up to date on the latest news, as well as using it as a trading signal. Its compact layout reminds me of hacker news. I was looking through the network requests and got intrigued after finding out that the main data is not in plaintext:

Exploring Sorting Algorithms: A Comprehensive Guide

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Sorting is a fundamental operation in computer science and is crucial for organizing and processing large sets of data efficiently. There are numerous sorting algorithms available, each with its unique characteristics and trade-offs. Whether you’re a beginner programmer or an experienced developer, understanding sorting algorithms is essential for optimizing your code and solving real-world problems efficiently. Sorting algorithms play a crucial role in computer science and programming, enabling efficient organization and retrieval of data. In this article, we will dive into the world of sorting algorithms, exploring their various types, their strengths, and their best use cases. Understanding these algorithms will empower you to choose the most suitable sorting technique for your specific requirements.

Cloud Native Deployment of Flows in App Connect Enterprise

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IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) is a powerful and widely used integration tool. Developers create integration flows by defining an entry point that receives a message, then processing that message, and finishing by sending or placing the transformed message. Flows consist of a series of nodes and logical constructs. ACE is powerful and flexible — there are many nodes provided specifically to interact with the systems being integrated, however there are also nodes that can run a script or Java code. Because of this, ACE can do pretty much anything, and as such could be considered (although this is not its intended purpose) as an application runtime environment. An ACE flow is a deployable unit that is inherently stateless, although it can manage its own state. In a traditional server environment, many flows are deployed on an integration server and their execution can be managed and scaled using the workload management features. This makes ACE a natural fit for a Kubernetes environment.

Running Unit Tests in GitHub Actions

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Verifying code changes with unit tests is a critical process in typical development workflows. GitHub Actions provides a number of custom actions to collect and process the results of tests allowing developers to browse the results, debug failed tests, and generate reports. In this article, I show you how to add unit tests to a GitHub Actions workflow and configure custom actions to process the results.

Understanding Europe's Cyber Resilience Act and What It Means for You

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IoT manufacturers in every region have a host of data privacy standards and laws to comply with — and Europe is now adding one more. The Cyber Resilience Act, or CRA, has some aspects that are simply common sense and others that overlap with already existing standards. However, other aspects are entirely new and could present challenges to IoT manufacturers and providers. Let’s explore the act and consider how it will change the world of connected devices.

Monetizing APIs: Accelerate Growth and Relieve Strain on Your Engineers

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APIs have become increasingly popular in the current SaaS ecosystem due to their ability to seamlessly integrate software systems. APIs provide standardized ways for applications to share data. API monetization is a powerful way for businesses to drive growth and generate revenue from existing API consumer data and usage. By offering your APIs as products or services, your company can tap into new markets, attract more developers, and create self-sustaining ecosystems around your product line. The “API as a product” approach unlocks monetization opportunities for expansion and diversification, leading to increased profits and market share. By turning APIs into revenue streams, organizations can allocate more resources to their engineering departments, empowering them to focus on core product development and innovation. At the same time, by automating the monetization process, companies can alleviate the burden of monitoring and reporting on engineering teams. According to Gartner, 75% of application providers will revise their current product pricing models to support customers’ consumption of APIs by 2025. Monetizing APIs allows you to provide your valuable APIs to external developers, creating a collaborative ecosystem that not only fuels business growth but accelerates innovation.

Memory Management in Java: An Introduction

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In Java, memory management is an automatic process that is managed by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and one that does not need explicit intervention. Java, being a block-structured language, uses a model where its memory is divided into two main types: stack and heap. Local variables and method parameters use memory based on a ‘stack.’ This area of memory grows and shrinks automatically when a code block or method is entered or exited, respectively. In situations where a request is made to the system for an amount of memory, whose size is only known at runtime or when creating an object, these requests are usually satisfied by an area of the process' memory known as ‘dynamic memory’ or the ‘heap’. Strictly speaking — there is an occasion when an object that may be destined for the heap is instead written to the stack; however, we will leave this discussion for a later document.

AWS Amplify: A Comprehensive Guide

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If you're looking for a top player in the cloud industry, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a great choice. One of its many offerings is AWS Amplify, a comprehensive set of tools and services that can help developers create, deploy, and manage full-stack web and mobile applications on the AWS platform. Amplify is known for providing complete AWS solutions to mobile and front-end web developers, simplifying the development process with its features. Backend development: Amplify can create and manage serverless backend APIs, authentication and authorization, storage, databases, and other standard services. Frontend development: Amplify provides a variety of libraries and tools for developing frontends in popular frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, and Flutter. Hosting and deployment: Amplify offers a fully managed web hosting service with continuous deployment, so developers can focus on building their apps without worrying about infrastructure. Benefits of Using AWS There are many benefits to using AWS Amplify, including:

How To Deploy Helidon Application to Kubernetes With Kubernetes Maven Plugin

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In this article, we delve into the exciting realm of containerizing Helidon applications, followed by deploying them effortlessly to a Kubernetes environment. To achieve this, we'll harness the power of JKube’s Kubernetes Maven Plugin, a versatile tool for Java applications for Kubernetes deployments that has recently been updated to version 1.14.0. What's exciting about this release is that it now supports the Helidon framework, a Java Microservices gem open-sourced by Oracle in 2018. If you're curious about Helidon, we've got some blog posts to get you up to speed:

Prototype Model in Software Engineering: Building a Strong Foundation for Success

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In the fast-paced world of software engineering, innovation and efficiency are paramount. One approach that has gained significant traction in recent years is the use of prototype models. These models serve as a fundamental building block in the software development process, offering numerous advantages for both developers and clients. The concept of prototype models in software engineering, exploring their benefits, types, and best practices. The development process can be intricate and challenging. Clients often find it difficult to convey their exact requirements, and developers may struggle to interpret them accurately. This is where prototype models step in, revolutionizing the way software is developed and ensuring that the end product meets or exceeds client expectations.

Transforming Generative Tasks to Classification Tasks

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ML systems are becoming increasingly powerful, with applications in a wide range of fields. Additionally, ML and NLP systems are being used to improve the quality of information retrieval systems, making it easier for users to find the information they need. This makes it much easier for us to access and understand information from a variety of sources. For example, Conversational AI can be used to create chatbots that can hold natural conversations with humans. Recommender systems can use NLP to recommend products relevant to a user’s interest. Sentiment analysis can be used to identify the emotional tone of text. The training of many deep learning models requires a vast amount of computational resources, such as GPUs and TPUs. The cost of inference can also be prohibitive for the application of these models in high-performance situations.

Accidental Complexity Is Killing Your Testing Efforts and IT Budget

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You’re working hard to transform your ways of working with a range of different goals. Common aims of digital transformations include: To become more Agile; To deliver faster through DevOps; To migrate all of your systems to the cloud; To enable regular change. Whatever your desired outcome, there’s one common problem that most (everybody really) ignore. Yet, overlooking this problem ultimately means that the initiative will fail, become delayed, cost too much, or generally become severely hampered going forward.

Monkey-Patching in Java

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The JVM is an excellent platform for monkey-patching. Monkey patching is a technique used to dynamically update the behavior of a piece of code at run-time. A monkey patch (also spelled monkey-patch, MonkeyPatch) is a way to extend or modify the runtime code of dynamic languages (e.g. Smalltalk, JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby, Perl, Python, Groovy, etc.) without altering the original source code.

BSidesAustin 2023: CyberSecurity In The Texas Tech Capital

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Austin, Texas, is a city filled with music, vibrant nightlife, and some legendary BBQ. It is also one of the great tech hubs of the southern United States, home to a wide variety of tech innovators like Indeed, SolarWinds, and Amazon's Whole Foods. It is simultaneously home to one of the largest tech events in the world, SXSW, as well as many smaller tech events, including BSides Austin 2023. Like other BSides, Austin had informative sessions, a number of training opportunities, and several villages, including capture the flag, lockpicking, and more. Here are just a few of the highlights from this year's excellent event.

Cognitive AI: The Road To AI That Thinks Like a Human Being

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One of the most persistent myths surrounding the advent of Artificial Intelligence lies in the fantasy that advanced new technologies carry the "superpower" of being able to address every subject. For some, AI is providential, while for others, it is nothing less than a threat to humanity. In reality, artificial intelligence technologies cannot solve problems for which they were not designed.