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Playwright: Filter Visible Elements With locator.filter({ visible: true })

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 17:28:07

This blog covers how the new filter visible element option helps in writing more precise, user-focused tests with ease with the option locator.filter({ visible: true }). Playwright has quickly become a go-to tool for end-to-end testing, thanks to its robust API, cross-browser support, and easy handling of modern web applications. One of its standout features is the locator API, which allows testers to precisely target elements on a page. With recent updates, Playwright has added even more power to this API, including a new visible option for the locator.filter() method.

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Build a REST API With Just 2 Classes in Java and Quarkus

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 17:28:07

Developers often look for ways to build RESTful APIs with minimal effort while maintaining clean and maintainable code. Quarkus enables a fully functional CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API using just two classes. With Hibernate ORM with Panache, Quarkus simplifies entity management, and REST Data with Panache automatically exposes a complete set of RESTful endpoints. This approach reduces the time spent on boilerplate code, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure.

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Different Garbage Collectors in Java: Exploring the Options

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 14:43:07

Garbage collection in Java is something that just happens: you don’t have to worry about memory management. Or do you? The garbage collector (GC) runs in the background, quietly doing its work. But this process can have a huge impact on performance. Understanding the concepts of advanced Java GC is invaluable in tuning and troubleshooting applications.

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The Impact of AI Agents on Modern Workflows

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 14:28:07

Workflows have long been the backbone of organizational efficiency. From the simplest administrative tasks to the most complex project management processes, workflows help streamline operations, minimize errors, and enhance productivity.  However, as AI agents become increasingly sophisticated, they are set to radically reshape how workflows are designed, executed, and optimized. The fusion of human intelligence with AI agents promises to drive unprecedented levels of automation, precision, and agility in the workplace.

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5 Ways Docker Can Improve Security in Mobile App Development

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 12:28:07

Security is a critical concern in mobile app development, especially with the rise of data breaches and cyber threats. Docker, a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers, offers several advantages that can enhance the security of mobile apps.  This article explores five ways Docker can improve security in mobile app development, accompanied by diagrams and code snippets for a clearer understanding.

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AI-Driven Self-Healing Tests With Playwright, Cucumber, and JS

Aggregated on: 2025-03-13 11:28:07

Automated testing is essential to modern software development, ensuring stability and reducing manual effort. However, test scripts frequently break due to UI changes, such as modifications in element attributes, structure, or identifiers. Traditional test automation frameworks rely on static locators, making them vulnerable to these changes. AI-powered self-healing automation addresses this challenge by dynamically selecting and adapting locators based on real-time evaluation. Self-healing is crucial for automation testing because it significantly reduces the maintenance overhead associated with test scripts by automatically adapting to changes in the application's user interface. This allows tests to remain reliable and functional even when the underlying code or design is updated, thus saving time and effort for testers while improving overall test stability and efficiency.

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Handling Concurrent Data Loads in Delta Tables

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 21:43:07

Ensuring Reliable Concurrent Writes With Retrying Options Delta Lake is a resilient storage layer that offers ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and data versioning. However, concurrent writes generate contention since different processes are attempting to write, update, or delete at the same time. This process offers a structured retry mechanism with exponential backoff to handle concurrency in Delta tables. Delta Table Concurrent Writes Issues Concurrency failures occur when multiple processes simultaneously attempt to write to the same Delta table. The common failure scenarios are as follows:

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Using Jetpack Compose With MVI Architecture

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 20:28:07

Understanding MVVM and MVI MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) MVVM is one of the most popular architecture patterns in Android development. It helps keep UI logic separate from business logic by using a ViewModel, which acts as a bridge between the View (UI) and the Model (data and logic). The View listens for updates from the ViewModel and updates the UI when needed. Model: Handles data and business logic. View: Displays the UI and passes user actions to the ViewModel. ViewModel: Manages data for the View and responds to user interactions. MVI (Model-View-Intent) MVI follows a reactive, unidirectional data flow, meaning UI updates happen in a predictable way from a single source of truth. This makes state management clearer and more structured.

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GenAI: Running Prototypes Faster Than Wireframes

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 19:28:07

Required: Rapid Prototyping, Working Software Digital transformation is all about speed in turning business ideas into systems. Speed in getting actual working software — running screens, reading and writing real data, with underlying business logic. Experience has taught us there is no substitute for working software. It's all too common to spend weeks to months creating running screens, only to find out the business idea was not compelling or the requirements were misunderstood.

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SRE Best Practices for Java Applications

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 18:43:07

Site reliability engineering (SRE) plays a vital role in ensuring Java applications' high availability, performance, and scalability. This discipline merges software engineering and operations, aiming to create a robust infrastructure that supports seamless user experiences.  In this article, we will delve into a range of best practices aligned with SRE principles, including monitoring, logging, alerting, performance optimization, disaster recovery, security, automation, and incident management. Each section will be illustrated with relevant Java code samples to provide practical insights.

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Mobile Backend With Docker, Kubernetes, and Microservices

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 16:13:07

Mobile applications always demand highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant backend systems. Traditional monolithic architectures often struggle with performance bottlenecks, slow deployments, and scalability limitations. To overcome these challenges, a microservices-based architecture deployed using Docker and Kubernetes provides a robust solution. This article covers the following points:

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Low-Code Development Is Dead; Long Live Low Code, No Limits

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 15:13:07

Low-code was supposed to be the future. It promised faster development, simpler integrations, and the ability to build complex applications without drowning in code. And for a while, it seemed like it would deliver. But then reality hit. Developers and IT teams who embraced low-code quickly found its limitations. Instead of accelerating innovation, it created bottlenecks. Instead of freeing developers, it forced them into rigid, vendor-controlled ecosystems.

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Lightning Data Service for Lightning Web Components

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 14:28:07

When developing Lightning Web Components (LWC) in Salesforce, working with data efficiently is key to building powerful and scalable applications. Salesforce provides several ways to retrieve and manipulate data within LWC, and one of the most effective methods is using Lightning Data Service (LDS). LDS allows you to interact with Salesforce data — whether it’s retrieving, modifying, or deleting — without the need for any Apex code. It also offers a built-in cache that is shared across components, ensuring that data changes made by one component are automatically reflected in others, enhancing synchronization and reducing redundancy.

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How to Recover a Deleted Table in a SQL Server Database

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 13:28:07

Accidentally deleting a table in SQL Server can be a critical issue, but there are several methods to recover it. Below are three effective ways to successfully recover a deleted table in SQL Server. Method 1: Restore the Deleted Table From Backup The most reliable way to recover a deleted table is to restore it from a database backup. This method works if you have a recent backup of the database.

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Build a DIY AI Model Hosting Platform With vLLM

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 12:28:07

One of the biggest challenges that developers and researchers face is deploying models for AI inference at scale. Traditionally, this involves relying on cloud services or complex server setups that can be expensive and resource intensive. However, with innovations like the vLLM AI Inference engine, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) model hosting is becoming more accessible and efficient. One can build cost-effective model-serving solutions for their machine learning needs. vLLM vLLM is an AI inference engine designed to efficiently serve large language models (LLMs) at scale. It is a robust, high-performance engine that provides a streamlined approach to serving AI models. It stands out in its ability to optimize resources and maintain low latency and high throughput even with large-scale models. The vLLM engine allows for faster inference times, improved memory management, and optimized execution, all of which are crucial for hosting models effectively on a DIY setup.

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Chat History for AI Applications With Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK

Aggregated on: 2025-03-12 11:28:07

This blog post covers how to build a chat history implementation using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Go SDK and LangChainGo. If you are new to the Go SDK, the sample chatbot application presented in the blog serves as a practical introduction, covering basic operations like read, upsert, etc. It also demonstrates using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux-based emulator (in preview at the time of writing) for integration tests with Testcontainers for Go. Go developers looking to build AI applications can use LangChainGo, which is a framework for LLM-powered applications. It provides pluggable APIs for components like vector store, embedding, loading documents, chains (for composing multiple operations), chat history, and more.

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Enhanced Monitoring Pipeline With Advanced RAG Optimizations

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 21:43:06

Observability Integration Observability is the cornerstone of reliability and trust in any production-grade retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline. As these systems become more complex — handling sensitive data, supporting real-time queries, and interfacing with multiple services — being able to trace and measure each step of the data flow and inference process becomes critical. From retrieving logs in vector databases to generating final responses with large language models, every interaction must be visible and auditable to scale confidently in production. To address these needs, our enhanced RAG pipeline integrates Literal AI for end-to-end tracing of both retrieval and generation steps. Literal AI provides robust observability mechanisms, allowing teams to pinpoint performance bottlenecks, detect anomalies, and seamlessly incorporate human-in-the-loop feedback. 

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Disaster Recovery Plan for DevOps

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 20:43:06

A well-designed disaster recovery plan is critical to mitigate risks, recover swiftly from failures, and ensure your data and infrastructure integrity. Are There Any Myths Related to DR in DevOps? Some organizations still mistakenly assume that DevOps tools, like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or Jira, come with built-in, all-encompassing disaster recovery. However, we shouldn’t forget about the shared responsibility models, which explicitly clarify that while providers secure their infrastructure and smoothly run their services, users must safeguard their own account data. 

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The LLM Advantage: Smarter Time Series Predictions With Less Effort

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 19:43:06

Have you ever wondered why predicting next month's sales is so hard? Or why forecasting the weather seems like a coin flip sometimes? Time series data is everywhere, but making sense of it has always been a headache — until now. Large language models (LLMs) are shaking things up in the time series world. Seriously, it's like someone finally handed us a decent flashlight after we've been stumbling around in the dark for years.

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Migrating Java Microservices to Go: A Comprehensive Guide

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 18:43:06

With the rising demand for high-performance, scalable, and resource-efficient microservices, many organizations are exploring the transition from Java to Go (Golang). Java, a long-standing enterprise favorite, offers robustness and a vast ecosystem, but Go’s lightweight concurrency model, fast execution speed, and lower memory footprint make it an attractive alternative.  This guide explores why and how to migrate Java microservices to Go effectively.

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Time Data Series: It’s Not What You Said; It’s How You Said It

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 17:58:06

In my last post on PHP Zmanim, I said the next thing I’d write about was astronomy calculations. I still plan to do that, but something came up recently that caught my attention, so I’m going to talk about that instead. I still plan to get to the astronomy stuff. Sephardi vs. Ashkenazi No, not kitniyot. No, not how to hang your mezuzzah. No, not whether you have to use water challah or if egg challah is ok. I’m talking about the “T” sound in certain words.

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Import Order in React: A Deep Dive Into Best Practices and Tools

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 16:43:06

Have you ever spent hours debugging a seemingly simple React application, only to realize the culprit was a misplaced import? Incorrect import order can lead to a host of issues, from unexpected behavior to significant performance degradation.  In this article, we'll delve into the intricacies of import order in React, exploring best practices and powerful tools to optimize your code. By the end, you'll be equipped to write cleaner, more efficient, and maintainable React applications.

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How to Deploy Karpenter on AWS Kubernetes With kOps

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 15:13:06

kOps is a widely used tool for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments. It provides a unified configuration system (YAML or JSON), which lets you easily set up clusters across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises environments. With flexible customization options, kOps lets you adjust everything from control plane and worker node operating systems to network plugins (like Calico and Cilium) and storage solutions, which makes it an excellent fit for complex setups.

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8 Java GUI Frameworks for Modern Applications

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 14:13:06

Java has become one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, chosen for its adaptability, stability, and platform independence. Its extensive ecosystem encompasses virtually every application type, from web development to enterprise solutions, game design, Internet of Things (IoT), and beyond.  With an estimated 51 billion active Java virtual machines (JVMs) globally, it goes without question that Java powers a substantial portion of modern software infrastructure.

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How to Use GPU Nodes in Amazon EKS

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 13:13:06

Running GPU workloads on Amazon EKS requires configuring GPU-enabled nodes, installing necessary drivers, and ensuring proper scheduling. Follow these steps to set up GPU nodes in your EKS cluster. 1. Create an Amazon EKS Cluster First, create an EKS cluster without worker nodes using eksctl (for simplicity, we don’t use Terraform/OpenTofu.):

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Build Your Tech Startup: 4 Key Traps and Ways to Tackle Them

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 12:28:06

The tech sector is based on human rather than physical assets: not on machinery or warehouses but on talented specialists and innovations. Competition is fierce, and success often hinges on adaptability in an ever-changing environment. Speed takes precedence, where the ability to launch a product swiftly can outweigh even its quality. If you have any experience in software development, all these issues definitely sound like a daily routine.  But what if you are about to launch your own startup? What if your project’s ambitions go all the way to Unicorn heights? In this case, you are going to face additional and (most probably) unfamiliar obstacles. These include workforce challenges, management issues, insufficient investment in innovation, and neglect of technical branding. 

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Apex Testing: Tips for Writing Robust Salesforce Test Methods

Aggregated on: 2025-03-11 11:28:06

Testing is a critical aspect of software development. When developers write code to meet specified requirements, it’s equally important to write unit tests that validate the code against those requirements to ensure its quality. Additionally, Salesforce mandates a minimum of 75% code coverage for all Apex code.  However, a skilled developer goes beyond meeting this Salesforce requirement by writing comprehensive unit tests that also validate the business-defined acceptance criteria of the application. 

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Vendor Lock-In Drives Open-Source Adoption in Japan

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 21:28:06

I have been looking at open source development in Japan, which is showing increasing signs of playing a bigger part in corporate strategy and becoming more global in reach.  Koichi Shikata, Head of Solutions Architect Division, SUSE Software Solutions, Japan, is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the software industry, having held significant roles at SUSE, Wind River, and Intel, based both in Japan and the US. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in promoting open-source solutions and fostering innovation within the industry. 

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How to Build a ChatGPT Super App

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 20:28:06

SingleStore is a powerful multi-model database system and platform designed to support a wide variety of business use cases. Its distinctive features allow businesses to unify multiple database systems into a single platform, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and simplifying developer workflows by eliminating the need for complex integration tools. In this article, we'll explore how SingleStore can transform email campaigns for a web analytics company, enabling the creation of personalized and highly targeted email content.

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An Overview of Asynchronous Processing in Salesforce

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 19:28:06

When running a process in Salesforce, the first question you should ask is whether to execute it synchronously or asynchronously. If the task can be delayed and doesn't require an immediate result, it's always beneficial to leverage Salesforce's asynchronous processes, as they offer significant advantages to your technical architecture. What Is Asynchronous Processing? Asynchronous processes run in their own thread, allowing the task to complete without keeping the user waiting. Here are the key benefits:

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ETL With Large Language Models: AI-Powered Data Processing

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 18:13:06

The extract, transform, and load (ETL) process is at the heart of modern data pipelines; it helps migrate and process large amounts of data for analytics, AI apps, and BI (business intelligence) for organizations. Conventional ETL used to be explicitly rule-based, which required tons of manual configurations to handle different data formats.  However, with recent trends of large language models (LLMs), we are starting to see the dawn of transformative AI-driven ETL for data extraction and integration.

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Generative AI Agents: Transforming Supply Chain Management

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 17:13:06

Supply chains are the backbone of global commerce, but they're increasingly complex and vulnerable to disruptions. From pandemic-related shortages to geopolitical conflicts, recent events have exposed fundamental weaknesses in traditional supply chain management approaches.  As organizations seek more resilient and efficient solutions, artificial intelligence — particularly generative AI and large language models (LLMs) — is emerging as a game-changing technology.

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Real-Time Fraud Detection Using AI and Machine Learning

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 16:28:06

Problem Statement With the rapid increase of online applications in industries such as finance, e-commerce, and social media, the frequency and sophistication of fraud attempts have surged. E-commerce apps face challenges like unauthorized transactions, fake bank account creation, and bot-driven attacks, leading to financial losses, reputational harm, and decreased user trust. Current fraud detection methods often rely on post-event analysis, failing to address the need for real-time mitigation. The critical problem is to develop a system capable of detecting and preventing fraud as it occurs while balancing performance, user experience, and data privacy.

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The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 15:43:06

TL; DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. Misalignment leads to backlog bloat, trust erosion, and building the wrong products.  By implementing proper alignment tools, separating discovery from delivery, and maintaining appropriate backlog size (3-6 sprints), teams can build products that truly matter. Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. Learn more about how to embrace the alignment-to-value pipeline and create your product operating model.

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Soaking in the Pressure of Using AI

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 14:28:06

When large organizations spend billions of dollars in research and development of a revolutionary technology, a time comes when the technology is ready for prime time. The technology giants put their best foot forward to ensure large-scale global adoption of the technology. These are exciting times for any technology enthusiast, and it is natural to feel the urge to be a part of the bandwagon and not feel left out. People across the rank and file of an organization are feeling the pressure of using AI-based solutions for every business problem. How do you soak in the pressure and make the right decisions for your business problems? Let's break down the problem and remove the cobwebs to get a clear picture of when to use AI and when not to.

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Have You Heard About Cloud Native Buildpacks?

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 13:13:06

Do you ever get tired of fiddling with a Dockerfile? Dockerfiles and Docker images are a great way to package your app for reusable, containerized deployments. However, writing and maintaining a Dockerfile is not always intuitive, and it takes up time that could otherwise be used for adding features to your app. Enter Cloud Native Buildpacks. Buildpacks exist to pull together everything your app needs to run and put it into an Open Container Initiative (OCI) image — no Dockerfile required. For all the developers out there who need a container build process that’s easy to use and will save them time and headaches, Cloud Native Buildpacks might be the solution they’re looking for. Interested? I’ll tell you more.

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Is AI Responsible for Its Actions, or Should Humans Take the Blame?

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 12:28:06

The big question is: Can we handle AI responsibly? Or will we let it run wild? Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world. It is used in self-driving cars, healthcare, finance, and education. AI is making life easier, but it also comes with risks. What happens when AI makes a mistake? Should AI take the blame, or should humans be responsible?

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Configure Testcontainers in Spring Boot 3.x, 2.x, and Reactive

Aggregated on: 2025-03-10 11:13:06

Overview Testcontainers provides disposable Docker containers for databases, message queues, Redis, and so much more. It enables us to run fully integrated SpringBoot tests without mocking the Database, Redis, and even RabbitMQ interactions. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up Testcontainers in a Spring Boot application. This approach will work for Spring Boot version 3.x, 2.x, and even reactive Spring Boot applications.

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How to Grow Fast From an Intern to Senior Software Engineer

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 23:58:04

Thousands of new software engineers enter the industry every year with aspirations to make a mark, but many struggle to grow efficiently. Transitioning from an entry-level engineer to a senior software engineer is challenging and rewarding, requiring strategic effort, persistence, and the ability to learn from every experience. This article outlines a simple, effective strategy to accelerate your journey. This is not a shortcut; it is quite the opposite. This is a way to develop a solid base of earned knowledge for long-term growth with urgency and focus.  Fast growth from intern to senior engineer requires a clear understanding of the expectations at each level, a focus on developing key skills, and a strategy that emphasizes both technical and interpersonal growth. This guide will help you navigate this journey effectively, laying out actionable advice and insights to fast-track your progress.

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Floyd's Cycle Algorithm for Fraud Detection in Java Systems

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 23:58:04

The Floyd Cycle Detection Algorithm (Tortoise and Hare algorithm) is an efficient cycle detection within iterative structures. In addition to linked lists, it is applicable to practical problems such as fraud detection and user workflows where data is duplicated or there are cyclic dependencies in workflows or financial transactions.  This article illustrates its practical implementation with a fraudulent detection system for banking transactions.

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Running a Mobile App API Locally With Docker and Postman

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 21:58:04

In the development of mobile applications, a well-defined API is crucial for enabling seamless communication between the mobile front end and the backend services. Running this API locally can significantly enhance the development workflow, allowing developers to test and debug their applications without deploying them to a remote server. In this article, we will explore how to run a mobile app API locally using Docker and how to test it effectively with Postman. Why Use Docker? Docker provides a lightweight environment for running applications in containers, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production environments. Using Docker, developers can isolate dependencies, manage versions, and streamline the deployment process.

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Google Cloud vs AWS: Picking the Right Cloud Platform

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 21:13:04

Google’s Cloud Services and AWS are two of the most renowned cloud computing platforms in the world. With Amazon holding a good chunk of the current market share for cloud computing solutions at 31%, you may likely want to go ahead with AWS for your business and call it a day.  However, as with any service, there are advantages and also drawbacks to be aware of. In this case, both Google and AWS offer a comprehensive suite of services, but understanding their nuances is crucial for making informed decisions.

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How Data Test Engineers Ensure Compliance and Security With Automation

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 18:43:04

Modern organizations that work in data-centric settings must place a premium on compliance and data security. Rules and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) clearly specify practices that ought to be followed to prevent the exposure of confidential information and incurring huge penalties.  Engineers are accomplished in this domain, using automation strategies to help assure compliance and robustness of data security frameworks within organizations.

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How to Adopt Developer Tools Through Internal Champions

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 17:13:04

Successfully adopting developer tools requires a strategic approach to ensure they integrate well into your workflow and provide maximum benefit. Here are some steps to help you effectively adopt developer tools: 1. Identify Your Needs Assess your workflow. Determine the pain points or inefficiencies in your current development process. Define goals. Decide what you want to achieve with the new tools (e.g., faster debugging, better collaboration, improved code quality). Research tools. Look for tools that align with your needs, programming languages, and tech stack. 2. Evaluate the Tools Test before committing. Use free trials, demos, or open-source versions to evaluate the tools. Check compatibility. Ensure the tools work with your existing environment, frameworks, and libraries. Consider scalability. Choose tools that can grow with your project or team. Read reviews and case studies. Learn from others’ experiences to understand the pros and cons. 3. Plan the Adoption Process Start small. Begin with a pilot project or a small team to test the tool in a controlled environment. Set a timeline. Define a clear timeline for adoption, including milestones and evaluation points. Allocate resources. Ensure you have the time, budget, and personnel to support the transition. 4. Train Your Team Provide documentation. Share tutorials, guides, and best practices for using the tool. Organize training sessions. Conduct workshops or webinars to help your team get up to speed. Encourage experimentation. Allow team members to explore the tool and share their findings. 5. Integrate Into Your Workflow Automate where possible. Use the tool to automate repetitive tasks (e.g., testing, deployment, or code formatting). Standardize usage. Establish guidelines for how and when the tool should be used. Monitor performance. Track how the tool impacts productivity, code quality, and team collaboration. 6. Gather Feedback and Iterate Collect feedback. Regularly ask your team for their input on the tool’s effectiveness. Address issues. Resolve any challenges or bottlenecks that arise during adoption. Iterate and improve. Adjust your processes or explore additional features of the tool to maximize its value. 7. Stay Updated Follow updates. Keep an eye on new features, updates, or patches for the tool. Engage with the community. Join forums, attend webinars, or participate in user groups to learn from other developers. Reassess periodically. Regularly evaluate whether the tool still meets your needs or if better alternatives exist. 8. Measure Success Track metrics. Measure the impact of the tool on key performance indicators (e.g., development speed, bug rates, deployment frequency). Celebrate wins. Acknowledge improvements and successes to keep the team motivated. Document lessons learned. Record what worked well and what didn’t for future reference. Example Tools to Consider Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab IDEs/code editors: Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm Debugging tools: Chrome DevTools, Postman, Xcode Debugger CI/CD: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions Package managers: npm, pip, Maven Collaboration: Slack, Jira, Trello By following these steps, you can ensure a smooth and successful adoption of developer tools, ultimately enhancing your team’s productivity and the quality of your projects.

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How to Use JavaScriptExecutor in Selenium

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 16:28:04

Selenium is an open-source suite of tools and libraries that allows you to interact with browsers to perform various operations like sending text, clicking on a button, selecting drop-downs, etc. However, there are scenarios where the actual Selenium WebDriver commands do not work as expected, as Selenium can’t interact with the WebElements directly. This is where JavaScriptExecutor comes into the picture.

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A Glimpse Into the Future for Developers and Leaders

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 15:28:04

Software development is on the cusp of major transformations, driven by new technologies and an ever-growing demand for faster, more efficient, and scalable systems. For developers and leaders in software engineering, staying ahead of these trends will be essential to delivering cutting-edge solutions and keeping teams competitive.  Let’s dive into some of the key software development trends that will define the industry in the near future.

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Fixtures (Built-in Fixtures) in Playwright

Aggregated on: 2025-03-07 14:43:04

What Are Fixtures In Playwright? In Playwright, fixtures are objects that help you set up your tests efficiently. Think of them as “ready-made helpers” that provide things you commonly need, like a browser page, so you don’t have to create them from scratch every time. Explanation Let’s start with an example of a page fixture. Here’s the code to explain the page fixture:

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Performance Optimization Techniques for Snowflake on AWS

Aggregated on: 2025-03-06 23:13:04

As organizations scale their data operations in the cloud, optimizing Snowflake performance on AWS becomes crucial for maintaining efficiency and controlling costs. This comprehensive guide explores advanced techniques and best practices for maximizing Snowflake performance, backed by practical examples and implementation strategies. Understanding Snowflake's Architecture on AWS Snowflake's multi-cluster, shared-data architecture on AWS consists of three distinct layers:

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Deploying and Validating Kata Containers

Aggregated on: 2025-03-06 21:43:04

In Part 1, we explored how Kata Containers bring together the agility of Kubernetes pods and the robust security of virtual machines, offering a powerful solution for cloud-native workloads.  In this part, we’ll provide a hands-on guide to deploying and validating Kata Containers in IBM Cloud, a platform well-suited for secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade cloud solutions. From configuring the runtime to testing its performance and security, we’ll walk you through the entire process. By the end of this guide, you’ll have the practical knowledge to integrate Kata Containers into your IBM Cloud environment and enhance the security of your containerized applications.

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Enhanced Query Caching Mechanism in Hibernate 6.3.0

Aggregated on: 2025-03-06 20:43:04

Efficient query caching is a critical part of application performance in data-intensive systems. Hibernate has supported query caching through its second-level cache and query cache mechanisms. However, earlier implementations lacked flexibility, and developers had limited control over cache invalidation and customization. Hibernate 6.3.0, released in December 2024, addresses these problems by introducing enhanced query caching mechanisms.  This article talks about the traditional query caching approach in Hibernate and its limitations, along with how the new enhancements in Hibernate 6.3.0 improve the process.

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