Introduction and Power BI Authoring Overview

Introduction and Power BI Authoring Overview

Note: This is a multi-part series exploring Power BI Embedded Analytics. The other parts of the series are listed below: Analytics Analytics is all about making sense of data — finding patterns, uncovering insights, and using that information to make smarter decisions. It involves various techniques and tools to interpret data, create visualisations, and simplify … Read more

Harness launches Traceable Cloud WAAP to unify security and observability for cloud-native applications, APIs

Harness launches Traceable Cloud WAAP to unify security and observability for cloud-native applications, APIs

Harness has announced a new offering to help developers secure their cloud-native applications and APIs, the first major update to feature Traceable’s technology since the companies merged earlier this year.  Traceable Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) provides web application protection, API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense. According to Sudhir Patamsetti, senior. director … Read more

Zencoder acquires Machinet to further improve its AI coding agents

Zencoder acquires Machinet to further improve its AI coding agents

Zencoder, a company that provides an AI coding agent, has announced that it acquired another company in the AI coding agent business: Machinet.  According to Zencoder, this acquisition will solidify the company’s position in the AI coding assistant market and enable it to expand its multi-integration ecosystem into more development environments.  Machinet is a plugin … Read more

The Role of AI in Enhancing DevOps Processes

The Role of AI in Enhancing DevOps Processes

An Introduction to DevOps and AI Integration DevOps is this awesome mix of teamwork and tech that’s all about getting software developers and IT operations on the same page. It’s less about silos and more about chatting openly, working together, and using automation to pump out top-notch software faster than ever. In today’s wild, fast-moving … Read more

Failure Handling Mechanisms in Microservices

Failure Handling Mechanisms in Microservices

Microservices architecture has gained significant popularity due to its scalability, flexibility, and modular nature. However, with multiple independent services communicating over a network, failures are inevitable. A robust failure-handling strategy is crucial to ensure reliability, resilience, and a seamless user experience. In this article, we will explore different failure-handling mechanisms in microservices and understand their … Read more

AI Model Evaluation: Metrics, Visualization and Performance

AI Model Evaluation: Metrics, Visualization and Performance

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, despite going through constant and rigorous training, may not function as intended. It is important to observe strict and continuous evaluations to measure its accuracy and reliability in real-world applications. Assessing key metrics such as precision, recall, and F1-score allows the AI model to apply its learned patterns across different … Read more

SBOMs Without the F-Bombs – SD Times

SBOMs Without the F-Bombs – SD Times

Software engineers are currently caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock? They’re under record pressure to produce and release new software. The hard place? They’re increasingly expected to account for the safety, security and provenance of every single software asset they use in those builds. That’s demonstrated in the rise of the … Read more

Local LLM RAG Apps With Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, and SingleStore

Local LLM RAG Apps With Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, and SingleStore

In a previous article, we explored how to use Ollama and DeepSeek-R1 with SingleStore for a simple example. In this article, we’ll build on that example by working with a PDF document from the internet. We’ll store the document and its vector embeddings in SingleStore, then use DeepSeek-R1 to identify blockchain investment opportunities. The notebook … Read more

Microsoft reveals upcoming changes to Microsoft 365 Developer Program

Microsoft reveals upcoming changes to Microsoft 365 Developer Program

Microsoft has announced that over the next several months it will be making a few changes to its Microsoft 365 Developer Program. The program provides tools, documentation, training, access to experts, and community events for developers building apps for Microsoft 365 products. “The Microsoft 365 Developer Program has long been a great resource for developers … Read more

A Modern Stack for Building Scalable Systems

A Modern Stack for Building Scalable Systems

In software engineering, we have a lot of tools—tens or hundreds of different tools, products, and platforms. We have SQL DBs, we have NoSQL DBs with multiple subtypes, we have queues, data streaming platforms, caches, orchestrators, cloud, cloud versions of all the previous. We have enough …. In this article, I want to describe a … Read more