Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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How to improve JVM-based application startup time?
Posted on June 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Optimizing JVM startup time is vital for many applications. This post explores various strategies, comparing their effectiveness through benchmarking a simple Netty server. Class Data Sharing (CDS) and its evolution, AppCDS, cache class data to reduce initialization overhead. By Michał Zyga.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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Evogene and Google Cloud unveil foundation model for generative molecule design
Posted on June 18, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Evogene and Google Cloud are accelerating life science discovery with ChemPass AI, a generative AI foundation model focused on small-molecule design. Launched in May, this collaboration dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with identifying novel drug candidates and crop protection agents. ChemPass AI's core strength lies in its ability to simultaneously optimize multiple critical properties – potency, toxicity, stability, and bioavailability – within a single molecule generation cycle, surpassing previous approaches. By Antoine Tardif.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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Exclusive-OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry
Posted on June 15, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
OpenAI is collaborating with Alphabet's Google Cloud, a move designed to address the escalating demand for high-powered computing infrastructure required by AI models. The agreement, finalized in May, represents a substantial expansion of Google's cloud services, signaling a broadening strategic focus beyond Microsoft's Azure. By CNA.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning
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Choosing between EventBridge, SNS, and SQS for event-driven patterns
Posted on June 12, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AWS offers multiple services for decoupling business domains in event-driven patterns. The three main ones are EventBridge, SNS, and SQS. Use EventBridge for targeted content-based routing when you need to match complex rules. By Arpad Toth.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Anonymize RAG data in IBM Granite and Ollama using HCP Vault
Posted on June 8, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
In this summary, we explore how IBM Granite and Ollama can be integrated with HCP Vault to handle sensitive data effectively. The method involves configuring vaults to mask or tokenize data before passing it to the LLMs, ensuring that personal identifiable information (PII) is protected. By Rosemary Wang.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning devops-and-ci-cd
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Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Posted on May 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate external knowledge. By Taketomo Isazawa.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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How much observability is enough?
Posted on May 17, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Observability is the process of watching what your systems do at every layer so that you can build a comprehensive picture of how it does what it does. By Dotan Horovits and Jujhar Singh.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Python adopts standard lock file format for reproducible installs
Posted on May 13, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Python's ecosystems now have a standardized lock file format called pyproject.lock (or pylock.toml) defined by PEP 751. This was formally adopted after the proposal was accepted. By Sarah Gooding.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd
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How AI coding tools open the door to hackers through fake packages
Posted on April 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A new UTSA study exposes how AI coding assistants can hallucinate fake software packages—creating an easy gateway for hackers to hijack your code with a single, trusted command. By University of Texas at San Antonio.
Tags security-and-privacy product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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A comprehensive guide on API developments
Posted on March 17, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Are you struggling to understand how to build an API from scratch? This guide will equip you with everything you need to know about API development. APIs are the backbone of modern software, enabling applications to communicate, share data, and integrate seamlessly. From social media platforms to e-commerce websites, APIs are everywhere.Are you struggling to understand how to build an API from scratch? This guide will equip you with everything you need to know about API development. APIs are the backbone of modern software, enabling applications to communicate, share data, and integrate seamlessly. From social media platforms to e-commerce websites, APIs are everywhere. By @goodcore.co.uk.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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A brief history of SQL and the rise of graph queries
Posted on March 13, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
GQL addresses the need for sophisticated queries that reflect the increasingly complex and connected nature of data in the real world. The benefits of graph databases not only exist in providing more intuitive and powerful ways to visualize and interrogate data relationships but also in storing and processing data more efficiently. By Jocelyn Hoppa.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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JavaScript frameworks - heading into 2025
Posted on March 9, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This article reflects on the state of JavaScript frameworks in 2024, concluding that the pursuit of simplicity hasn't necessarily resulted in easier development. By Ryan Carniato.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile