Netflix’s “Psycho Pattern” stitched togetherSpark, Kafka, and Airflowinto a relentless micro-batch pipeline. It tracked high watermarks for near-real-time threat detection—fast enough, sharp enough. Then came the Flink switch. Lower latency? Sure. But it missed the mark. Signal quality stayed flat...

GitHub Copilot just crossed20 million users. Five million joined last quarter alone. Enterprise usage? Up75%quarter-over-quarter. It’s now in the hands of90% of the Fortune 100, according to Microsoft. Here’s the kicker: Copilot’s AI coding biz is now bigger than all of GitHub’s revenue when Micros..

A solo dev just spun up a public build of aRedis-style key-value store in Java—lean, thread-safe, and backed by a custom TCP server. Right now it handlesGET,SET, andDELETEover a socket-level protocol. No HTTP. No bloat. At its core: aConcurrentHashMapdoing the heavy lifting. Fast, in-memory, and de..

Docker’s getting serious about agent-based AI. It just rolled out tools tailor-made for building modular, goal-chasing LLM systems. Model Runnerlets devs spin up LLMs locally—zero cloud, zero wait.Offloadtaps cloud GPUs when local ones tap out. And theMCP Gatewaypipes in external tools without duct..

A CS student taught themselvesSwiftusingNotebookLM, Google’s AI that sticks to sources you feed it. They pulled in handpicked docs, YouTube transcripts, and visual mind maps—all dropped into a custom notebook. No generic guesses. No hallucinated trivia. Just clean, source-grounded answers on syntax ..

Generative AI databases like SingleStore now cramOLTP,OLAP,vector search, andfull-text searchinto one SQL-first platform. Structured, unstructured—it eats both. No ETL. No silos. Just real-time data, ripe for AI models and semantic queries. System shift:Blending transactional and analytic guts in o..

PostgreSQL index corruption silently broke the matrix.org homeserver. State groups were corrupted, active data was deleted, and restoring consistency took a week of forensic debugging and reindexing. The root cause? Unclear. Hardware, maybe. But not Postgres or Synapse. The team’s fix involved disab..

Proton just droppedProton Authenticator, a free 2FA app that actually respects your privacy. It’s cross-platform, offline-friendly, and skips the usual junk—no ads, no trackers, no bait-and-lock-in. It’s gotend-to-end encryption, a biometric lock, and lets youexport TOTP seedslike it’s your data (b..

Need to check active connections, monitor listening ports, or debug network issues? The Linux netstat command remains a go-to tool for quick and effective diagnostics. We’ve created a clear, quick-reference cheatsheet with: 🔍 Essential command flags 📊 Real-world use cases ⚙️ Integration tips for REL..

Apache Iceberg +SparkSQLbringsACID transactions,schema evolution, andtime travelto data lakes. That means ML pipelines finally get reproducibility and consistency without the hacks. Iceberg’s snapshot-based guts track every version, handle parallel writes without stepping on toes, and keep training ..