AWS Fargate's Seekable OCI (SOCI) introduces significant performance enhancement for containerized applications by enabling lazy loading of Docker container images. This reduces startup time for Fargate tasks, particularly for large container images, and makes it ideal for applications that need rapid scaling. AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that offers many different capabilities ..read more

Browser agents are essential tools for monitoring and observability in modern web applications, especially with the increasing complexity of both Single Page Applications (SPAs) and traditional multi-page sites. A browser agent operates within a user’s browser, collecting data on performance metrics, errors, user interactions, and network requests, providing real-time insights into the application’s behavior.  For SPAs, browser agents face unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of page transitions, which occur without full reloads. This makes tracking performance metrics, memory leak ..read more

Microservices architecture promotes the development of applications, as suites of small, independent, loosely coupled services. Because of its numerous advantages (e.g., scalability, reliability, faster development cycles, easier maintenance of individual services, etc., detailed in this article), it has gained significant traction in the software industry lately and organizations are building their applications following microservices architecture. However, it comes with a few pitfalls as well. Recently while working on a use case at work, I observed the other side of microservices architectu ..read more

Security is a top priority of every company. It’s not surprising: source code, the most critical asset of any organization, should be under reliable protection — especially in view of constantly rising threats. Ransomware, infrastructure outages, vulnerabilities, and other threats can strike your GitHub repository at any time. Organizations, especially those that operate in the most regulated industries, can face a few main challenges regarding their GitHub data protection. The first one, we have already mentioned — it’s the value of the data stored in the repositories. The second one is their ..read more

LLM Parameters Like any machine learning model, large language models have various parameters that control the variance of the generated text output. We have started a multi-part series to explain the impact of these parameters in detail. We will conclude by striking the perfect balance in content generation using all of these parameters discussed in our multi-part series. Welcome to the second part, where we discuss another well-known parameter, "Top-P ..read more

This is another article in the series related to supporting the Postgres JSON functions in a project using the Hibernate framework with version 6. The topic for the article is modification operations on JSON records. As in the previous article, it is worth mentioning that Postgres might now have such comprehensive operations as other NoSQL databases like MongoDB for JSON modification (although, with the proper function constructions, it is possible to achieve the same effect). It still suits most projects that require JSON modification. Plus, with transaction support (not suppor ..read more

In software engineering, the role of a “Glue” is vital yet often overlooked. This term refers to the person who connects various teams, ensuring that a complex project with many moving parts comes together seamlessly. If you’re leading a zero-to-one software project that spans more than a couple of teams, your role as the Glue becomes even more critical. This article explores strategies for managing team dependencies, scheduling demos, building alignments, and adapting to pivots while maintaining focus on user needs. 1. Managing Team Dependencies When working across multiple teams, managing de ..read more

Problem Statement The "why" of this AI solution is very important and prevalent across multiple fields. Imagine you have multiple scanned PDF documents ..read more

The Dapr 1.14 release last month included many new capabilities and was feature-packed. This included the addition of a new Jobs API and Scheduler control plane service for managing jobs. Over the years, the Dapr project was often requested to include a Jobs API. The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API. In this post, I am going to deep dive into the details of how the Scheduler service was designed and its implementation to give you some background. Prior to v1.14 if you wanted to sched ..read more

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become common in industrial environments, giving users better visibility, control, and capabilities. However, making the IoT product work well requires knowing how to optimize software and hardware-related aspects.  1. Ensure the IoT Device Has Adequate Hardware People must first consider how they will use the IoT device and then evaluate whether it has the appropriate hardware capabilities to meet relevant current and future needs. A good starting point is to examine the storage, memory, and processing performance and verify that it aligns with the p ..read more