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Maximize Your AI Value With Small Language Models

Small language models (SLMs) offer 90% of the value of large models at a fraction of the cost. Devs can maximize AI ROI by training SLMs on domain-specific data.

October 16, 2025

by Brian Sathianathan

· 2,233 Views · 3 Likes

Build AI Agents with Phidata: YouTube Summarizer Agent

In this article, we will explore the value of AI agents, introduce popular agentic AI platforms, and walk through a hands-on tutorial for building a simple AI agent.

October 16, 2025

by Praveen Gupta Sanka

· 2,292 Views · 3 Likes

A Technical Practitioner's Guide to Integrating AI Tools into Real Development Workflows

Junior developers are shipping features faster with Cursor and GitHub Copilot, while senior engineers question if AI-assisted code is maintainable at scale.

October 16, 2025

by Jim Liddle

· 2,937 Views · 1 Like

Why Domain-Driven Design Is Still Essential in Modern Software Development

Software keeps growing in complexity while losing touch with business goals. Domain-driven design brings clarity, making systems scalable, meaningful, and built to last.

October 15, 2025

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 4,390 Views · 4 Likes

Python Development With Asynchronous SQLite and PostgreSQL

Solve SQL security, database connector, and prepared statement problems when using FastAPI with Asynchronous PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy.

October 15, 2025

by Craig Oda

CORE

· 5,855 Views · 5 Likes

Distributed Locking in Cloud-Native Applications: Ensuring Consistency Across Multiple Instances

In modern cloud-native systems, services often run across multiple pods or nodes for scalability and high availability, introducing challenges in data consistency.

October 15, 2025

by Navin Kaushik

· 3,470 Views · 1 Like

The Era of AI-First Backends: What Happens When APIs Become Contextualized Through LLMs?

AI-first backends let LLMs drive dynamic, personalized API logic in real time replacing static rules. Validation and guardrails keep them reliable and secure.

October 15, 2025

by Bharath Kumar Reddy Janumpally

· 8,774 Views · 3 Likes

Types of Web 3 APIs

Choosing the right API architecture depends on your application’s specific needs like it's enterprise integration, user interaction or deep protocol-level communication.

October 15, 2025

by Oliver Ifediorah

· 2,211 Views · 1 Like

Indexing Across Data Models: From Tables to Documents to Text

Learn how database indexes — hash, B-tree, R-tree, bitmap, inverted, and vector — boost query performance across relational, NoSQL, and search systems.

October 15, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 1,767 Views

Beyond Secrets Manager: Designing Zero-Retention Secrets in AWS With Ephemeral Access Patterns

Ephemeral access patterns in AWS eliminate credential sprawl. This architecture uses IAM, STS, and brokers to enable zero-retention secrets at scale.

October 15, 2025

by Amrit Pal Singh

· 11,797 Views

Agentic AI: Why Your Copilot Is About to Become Your Coworker

The era of AI autonomously doing the work is here. Agentic AI systems can plan multi-step workflows, make decisions, use tools, and coordinate with other agents.

October 14, 2025

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 3,633 Views · 4 Likes

Where Stale Data Hides Inside Your Architecture (and How to Spot It)

Stale data hides in caches, syncs, and backups, quietly breaking consistency and trust. Fixing it starts with treating freshness as design.

October 14, 2025

by Andreas Kozachenko

· 2,514 Views · 1 Like

Advanced Snowflake SQL for Data Engineering Analytics

Learn seven advanced Snowflake SQL queries for online retail analytics, with visualizations and tips for scalable data pipelines.

October 14, 2025

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 2,499 Views · 1 Like

CNCF Triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86

Actuated plus Ampere-powered runners let CNCF maintainers test and ship Arm64 natively, closing the gap with x86 across CI/CD.

October 14, 2025

by Scott Fulton III

· 2,315 Views · 2 Likes

Inside Microsoft Fabric: How Data Agents, Copilot Studio, and Real-Time Intelligence Power the AI-Driven Enterprise

Learn how developers can use data agents for natural-language querying, Copilot Studio for AI interactions, and real-time intelligence for streaming analytics.

October 14, 2025

by Vishwa Kishore Mannem

· 3,208 Views · 2 Likes

Making AI Better: A Deep Dive Across Users, Developers, and Businesses

In this sequel to Making AI Faster, I explore why making AI better matters and share strategies across user, developer, and business perspectives.

October 14, 2025

by Gunveer Gujral

· 1,372 Views · 1 Like

A Fresh Look at Optimizing Apache Spark Programs

Optimize Spark jobs by tuning configurations, writing efficient code (Data Frames, broadcast joins), using optimized storage, and monitoring the Spark UI and logs.

October 14, 2025

by Nataraj Mocherla

· 3,180 Views · 2 Likes

How Developers Use Synthetic Data to Stress-Test Models in Noisy Markets

Synthetic data lets quants stress-test equity strategies beyond noisy markets, preserving volatility, and building resilience before risking real capital.

October 14, 2025

by Jay Mehta

· 1,439 Views · 1 Like

Operationalizing Responsible AI: Turning Ethics Into Engineering

This article will provide a direction on how to build a reliable AI system in production by incorporating bias mitigation strategies.

October 13, 2025

by Jofia Jose Prakash

· 2,307 Views · 2 Likes

Apache Iceberg REST Catalog: The Key to Vendor-Agnostic Data Interoperability

In this article, I have demonstrated how Iceberg Data can be accessed through the Iceberg REST Catalog from Data Mesh with a simple Python application.

October 13, 2025

by Pravin Dwiwedi

· 2,702 Views · 1 Like

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