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🚀 RELIANOID is heading to it-sa Expo&Congress 2025!

📍 Nuremberg, Germany | October 7–9, 2025 🔒 Europe’s largest IT security event with 900+ exhibitors, expert talks & global networking. We’ll be there to showcase how RELIANOID helps businesses stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. 👉 See you in Nuremberg! Send us a DM to make an appointment. #itSa2025..

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Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix

Netflix faced challenges like data loss, system entropy, updates across partitions, and reliable retries. To address these, they built a generic Write-Ahead Log (WAL) system serving a variety of use cases like delayed queues, generic cross-region replication, and multi-partition mutations. WAL abstr..

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Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code

A developer rolled out a fully working **Go load balancer** with a clean **Round Robin** setup—and hooks for dropping in smarter strategies like **Least Connection** or **IP Hash**. Backend servers live in a custom server pool. Swapping balancing logic? Just plug into the interface...

Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code
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Uncommon Uses of Common Python Standard Library Functions

A fresh guide gives old Python friends a second look—turns out, tools like **itertools.groupby**, **zip**, **bisect**, and **heapq** aren’t just standard; they’re slick solutions to real problems. Think run-length encoding, matrix transposes, or fast, sorted inserts without bringing in another depen..

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Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT & SSO

Modern apps don’t just check passwords—they rely on **API tokens**, **OAuth**, and **Single Sign-On (SSO)** to know who’s knocking before they open the door...

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Users Only Care About 20% of Your Application

Modern apps burst with features most people never touch. Users stick to their favorite 20%. The rest? Frustration, bloat, ignored edge cases. Tools like **VS Code**, **Slack**, and **Notion** nail it by staying lean at the core and letting users stack what they need. Extensions, plug-ins, integrati..

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Privacy for subdomains: the solution

A two-container setup using **acme.sh** gets Let's Encrypt certs running on a Synology NAS—thanks, Docker. No built-in Certbot support? No problem. Cloudflare DNS API token handles auth. Scheduled tasks handle renewal...

Privacy for subdomains: the solution
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Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me

One dev rewired their Slack setup by **engagement frequency**—not subject. Channels got sorted into tiers like “Read Now” and “Read Hourly,” cutting through noise and saving brainpower. It riffs off the **Eisenhower Matrix**, letting priorities shift with projects, not burn people out...

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Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents

MiQ plugged **Google’s Agent Development Kit** into their stack to spin up **LLM agents** that turn plain English into clean, validated SQL. These agents speak directly to **Apache Pinot**, firing off real-time queries without the usual parsing pain. Behind the scenes, it’s a slick handoff: NL2SQL ..

Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents
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Jupyter Agents: training LLMs to reason with notebooks

Hugging Face dropped an open pipeline and dataset for training small models—think **Qwen3-4B**—into sharp **Jupyter-native data science agents**. They pulled curated Kaggle notebooks, whipped up synthetic QA pairs, added lightweight **scaffolding**, and went full fine-tune. Net result? A **36% jump ..

Jupyter Agents: training LLMs to reason with notebooks
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