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Have you ever wondered what happens when you send a message to friends or family over the Internet? Itβs not just magic β thereβs a fascinating technology at work behind the scenes called WebSocket. This powerful protocol enables real-time communication, allowing messages to flow seamlessly between users. Join us as we dive deeper into the world of WebSocket! Weβll explore how this technology operates and even create a...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:In todayβs world where data drives everything, managing large-scale databases and their security is both a necessity and a challenge. A few factors that organizations consider when choosing databases are primary are its cost, flexibility, and support from hosting providers. An open-source database is your best bet for many reasons. As organizations are looking for more and more open-source products to run their...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:In my experience, Storybook has been a game-changer as a front-end developer who has mainly relied on Jest, Mocha, and Chai to get the basic testing working for the components I've built β learning about Storybook has been an eye-opener. It's one of those tools that once you've used you wonder how you managed without it. The ability to visualize components in isolation has streamlined our development process, making...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:It's no secret that traditional large language models (LLMs) often hallucinate β generate incorrect or nonsensical information β when asked knowledge-intensive questions requiring up-to-date information, business, or domain knowledge. This limitation is primarily because most LLMs are trained on publicly available information, not your organization's internal knowledge base or proprietary custom data. This is where...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:Project planning is one of the first steps involved in any form of project management. In this Agile era, whatever flavor of Agile it may be, programs and projects undergo a cadence for planning on the set-up of intentions for the next phase of delivering value to customers. In this generation of GenAI, there is an opportunity to catalyze productivity not just by reducing routine tasks through manual intervention, but...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:Despite useful features offered by software, sometimes software pricing and packaging repel consumers and demotivate them to even take the first step of evaluation. Rarely, we have seen software/hardware used for the full 24 hours of a day but still, as a consumer, I am paying for the 24 hours of the day. At the same time, as a cloud software vendor, I know my customer is not using cloud applications for 24 hours but...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:JSON files are commonly used these days for sending data to applications. Be it a web application, an API, or a mobile application, JSON is used by almost every team as it is lightweight and self-describing. Due to its high popularity and wide usage, it is important to understand and know what JSON is, its features, its different data types, file formats, etc. In this blog, we will be learning about JSON, its features,...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:Data compression is perhaps the most important feature of modern computation, enabling efficient storage and transmission of information. One of the most famous compression algorithms is Huffman coding. In this post, we are going to introduce an advanced version: a block-based, 2-symbol, two-pass Huffman algorithm in Golang. It can bring further enhancements regarding the increase of compression efficiency in specific...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:CPU spikes are one of the most common performance challenges faced by Java applications. While traditional APM (Application Performance Management) tools provide high-level insights into overall CPU usage, they often fall short of identifying the root cause of the spike. APM tools usually canβt pinpoint the exact code paths causing the issue. This is where non-intrusive, thread-level analysis proves to be much more...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:The App Connect product enables you to integrate anything to anything. Its core routing and transformation engine enables you to inspect and transform messages from a wide variety of industry-standard and custom message models. But with great power can come complexity! Being generic and having the ability to run your integration flows on different form factors can give you a lot of options. This article aims to help...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report,Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. As businesses collect more data than ever before, the ability to manage, integrate, and access this data efficiently has become crucial. Two major approaches dominate this space: extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:Todayβs guest is Logan Kilpatrick, a senior product manager at Google, who tells Ben about his journey from software engineering to machine learning to product management, all with an emphasis on reducing developer friction. They talk through the challenges of non-determinism in AI models and how Google is addressing these issues with a new feature: Grounding with Google Search. Plus, what working at the Apple Store...
Published on: November 05, 2024 | Source:I visited a small local grocery store which happens to be in a touristy part of my neighborhood. If youβve ever traveled abroad, then youβve probably visited a store like that to stock up on bottled water without purchasing the overpriced hotel equivalent. This was one of these stores. To my misfortune, my visit happened to coincide with a group of tourists arriving all at once to buy beverages and warm up (itβs...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:I had the dubious pleasure of living through the dot.com bubble, from the nascent early web in 1995 through the crash in 2000. Itβs no wonder, therefore, that todayβs generative AI (GenAI) bubble is giving me a serious case of dΓ©jΓ vu. Been there, done that, got the t-shirts to prove it. Now Iβm older and wiser. So listen up, young βuns, and let me pass along some hard-won wisdom from the last millennium.
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report,Data Engineering: Enriching Data Pipelines, Expanding AI, and Expediting Analytics. Data engineering and software engineering have long been at odds, each with their own unique tools and best practices. A key differentiator has been the need for dedicated orchestration when building data products. In this article, we'll...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:In Infinispan 15, we provided a large set of commands to make it possible to replace your Redis Server with Infinispan without changing your code. In this tutorial, you will learn how Infinispan cache aliases will help you replace your Redis Server with Infinispan for multiple Redis databases. Key takeaways: What are cache aliases and how to create caches with aliases or update existing ones Learn how Infinispan and...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:Sometimes a good olβ list is what we need. I know, I know, this is forever true. But as my friend Dave is wont to say: eliminate nuance. The world doesnβt need nuance on if you should label your inputs by matching the for attribute of the label with the id of the input. You [β¦]
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:Flashcards have long been used as an effective tool for learning by providing quick, repeatable questions that help users memorize facts or concepts. Traditionally, flashcards contain a question on one side and the answer on the other. The concept is simple, yet powerful for retention, whether you're learning languages, mathematics, or any subject. An AI-powered flashcard game takes this learning method to the next...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:If youβre a web developer, you probably spend a fair amount of time working with Chrome DevTools. Itβs one of the best tools out there for diagnosing and improving the performance of your web applications. You can use it to track loading times, optimize CSS and JavaScript, and inspect network activity. But thereβs an important piece of performance data that DevTools doesnβt yet expose by default: Long Animation Frames...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:At the recent CloudWorld event, Oracle introduced Oracle Database 23c, its next-generation database, which incorporates AI capabilities through the addition of AI vector search to its converged database. This vector search feature allows businesses to run multimodal queries that integrate various data types, enhancing the usefulness of GenAI in business applications. With Oracle Database 23c, thereβs no need for a...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:Recent years have seen a rise in cloud-based IDEs and several options have emerged such as CodeSandBox, Replit, StackBlitz, and more. Cloud-based IDEs allow programming without the need to have a dedicated developer specification machine as they run in the browser directly. They provide complete freedom of writing software from anywhere and anytime. These IDEs have traditionally been great at creating showcase demos...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:The digitalization of airports faces challenges such as integrating diverse legacy systems, ensuring cybersecurity, and managing the vast amounts of data generated in real time. The vision for a digitalized airport includes seamless passenger experiences, optimized operations, consistent integration with airlines and retail stores, and enhanced security through the use of advanced technologies like IoT, AI, and...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:In an era characterized by an exponential increase in data generation, organizations must effectively leverage this wealth of information to maintain their competitive edge. Efficiently searching and analyzing customer data β such as identifying user preferences for movie recommendations or sentiment analysis β plays a crucial role in driving informed decision-making and enhancing user experiences. For instance, a...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:Reactive Programming Reactive programming is a programming paradigm that manages asynchronous data streams and automatically propagates changes, enabling systems to react to events in real time. Itβs useful for creating responsive APIs and event-driven applications, often applied in UI updates, data streams, and real-time systems. WebFlux WebFlux is designed for applications with high concurrency needs. It leverages...
Published on: November 04, 2024 | Source:GitHubβs annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you're a seasoned dev or just getting started, itβs all about having fun and making something awesome! The post Game Off 2024 theme announcement appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:When users worldwide woke up to their Windows devices inoperable, they feared they had fallen victim to the largest cyber-attack ever seen. But it wasn't an attack β their devices were down from a faulty CrowdStrike update. This$5 billionmistake could have been avoided with proper testing and quality assurance. With companies striving to update and publish software rapidly, the learnings from this global panic stemming...
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:The growing demand for efficient logistics and the pressing need for environmental sustainability requires innovative solutions to optimize transportation routes and minimize greenhouse gas emissions. This study explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing logistics efficiency and reducing environmental impact by applying various regression models to predict travel times and emissions using real-world...
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:What Is Data Governance, and How Do Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage Strengthen It? Data governance is a framework that is developed through the collaboration of individuals with various roles and responsibilities. This framework aims to establish processes, policies, procedures, standards, and metrics that help organizations achieve their goals. These goals include providing reliable data for business operations,...
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:Horizontally scalable data stores like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and CockroachDB distribute their data across multiple nodes using techniques like consistent hashing. As nodes are added or removed, the data is reshuffled to ensure that the load is spread evenly across the new set of nodes. When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a...
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercelβs GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs.
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-native ETL tool to process data seamlessly across different sources and sinks. Copy activity is mostly used to copy data from one source to another source. While copying data between two different sources, we need to make sure that the activity is completed in a timely manner to meet business needs and process data within the service level agreement.
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work.
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community. The post Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 30, 2024 | Source:On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developersβ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a seamless checkout experience, the importance of reducing friction in payment processes, and how documentation can...
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