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13 Nov 2025

JEFF GANGEMI, GROWTH MARKETING PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL 1 min read

Discover how Movable Ink’s VP of Growth Marketing, Justin Keller, is redefining personalization at scale by blending creative automation, data-driven storytelling, and AI innovation. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Keller joins Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, to discuss how brands can transform data into meaningful, one-to-one customer experiences that drive loyalty and growth.

Mallika 5 min read

At Thumbtack, collaboration has always been our edge; it’s what allows our teams to move fast, think creatively, and solve complex problems together. Our Decide & Resolve team works to empower homeowners to confidently hire the best local service professionals through relevant and personalized recommendations. Recently, we’ve introduced a new cross-functional process that combines the power of AI, accessible tooling,…

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Esther Lee 5 min read

Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms. Each post highlights practical ways to use an open stack to deliver real value in production — from transparent research copilots […]

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Shruti Koparkar 4 min read

Editor’s note: This post is part of Think SMART, a series focused on how leading AI service providers, developers and enterprises can boost their inference performance and return on investment with the latest advancements from NVIDIA’s full-stack inference platform. NVIDIA Blackwell delivers the highest performance and efficiency, and lowest total cost of ownership across every […]

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Simeon Ratliff 2 min read

Docker Desktop now includes cagent bundled out of the box. This means developers can start building AI agents without a separate installation step. For those unfamiliar with cagent: it’s Docker’s open-source tool that lets you build AI agents using YAML configuration files instead of writing code. You define the agent’s behavior and tools, and cagent...

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Ajeet Singh Raina 16 min read

This is Part 5 of our MCP Horror Stories series, where we examine real-world security incidents that highlight the critical vulnerabilities threatening AI infrastructure and demonstrate how Docker’s comprehensive AI security platform provides protection against these threats. Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises seamless integration between AI agents and communication platforms like WhatsApp, enabling automated message...

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How Nativewind can speed up your React Native Development If you're anything like me, after working on a few web projects with Tailwind, it can feel like a drag to return to stacks that use other styling libraries. Tailwind has become, for myself, and many other developers, a standard styling paradigm. When starting my most recent React Native project, I…

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Adriano Mota 7 min read

In modern system architectures, understanding data flow is crucial. Two fundamental concepts are north-south and east-west communications. Although both deal with APIs and services, they solve fundamentally different problems and require distinct tools. Below, we’ll explore when to use API gateways or a service mesh for north-south and east-west traffic. We’ll consider when each approach ...

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Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in...

Amit Merchant 4 min read

For years, we’ve faked “characterful” corners with SVG masks, pseudo-elements, and more than a few headaches. The problem? Border-radius only controls size, not shape. The experimental (and fairly new) corner-shape property changes all that by letting us define the actual shape of an element’s corners directly in CSS. Squircles! I’m looking at you. With a single declaration, we can turn…

12 Nov 2025

Dave Salvator 3 min read

In the age of AI reasoning, training smarter, more capable models is critical to scaling intelligence. Delivering the massive performance to meet this new age requires breakthroughs across GPUs, CPUs, NICs, scale-up and scale-out networking, system architectures, and mountains of software and algorithms. In MLPerf Training v5.1 — the latest round in a long-running series […]

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Gerardo Delgado 2 min read

Large language model (LLM)-based AI assistants are powerful productivity tools, but without the right context and information, they can struggle to provide nuanced, relevant answers. While most LLM-based chat apps allow users to supply a few files for context, they often don’t have access to all the information buried across slides, notes, PDFs and images […]

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Deanna Sparks 7 min read

Docker Desktop 4.50 represents a major leap forward in how development teams build, secure, and ship software. Across the last several releases, we've delivered meaningful improvements that directly address the challenges you face every day: faster debugging workflows, enterprise-grade security controls that don't get in your way, and seamless AI integration that makes modern development...

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In distributed systems, one of the fundamental challenges is knowing whether a node or service is alive and functioning properly. Unlike monolithic applications, where everything runs in a single process, distributed systems span multiple machines, networks, and data centers. This becomes even glaring when the nodes are geographically separated. This is where heartbeat mechanisms come into play.

11 Nov 2025

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StyleX is Meta’s styling system for large-scale applications. It combines the ergonomics of CSS-in-JS with the performance of static CSS, generating collision-free atomic CSS while allowing for expressive, type-safe style authoring. StyleX was open sourced at the end of 2023 and has since become the standard styling system across Meta products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, [...] Read More... The post…

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.NET Team 22 min read

Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more. The post Announcing .NET 10 appeared first on .NET Blog.

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Simeon Ratliff 5 min read

This post is for Linux users running Docker Engine (Community Edition) directly on their hosts. Docker Desktop users don’t need to take any action — Engine updates are included automatically in future Desktop releases. Docker Engine v29 is a foundational release that sets the stage for the future of the Docker platform. While it may...

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Rob 1 min read

I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to macOS 26 Tahoe and one thing I noticed was that Rodeo's rules were no longer working. With the help of exiftool, I worked out that when exporting to JPEG from Photos for macOS 26 Tahoe, the Object Name, Caption-Abstract and Keywords IPRC properties were no longer being populated. This is a regression from…

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vladmihalcea 1 min read

Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to clean up test data when using Spring and Hibernate. While it’s very common to use the @DataJpaTest annotation when implementing integration tests, in this blog post, you will see why you are better off avoiding using this annotation. Why I don’t use @DataJpaTest As explained by the…

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Janet Wagner 6 min read

We often talk about API design here at Nordic APIs and best practices to follow. One of those best practices is clear and consistent naming conventions throughout the API — from endpoint resources and URIs to fields and parameters. Naming is often overlooked in API design, leading to a poor experience for consumers. Imagine the ...

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10 Nov 2025

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We’re sharing details about Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), a new foundation model that delivers increased ad performance and advertiser ROI by enhancing other ads recommendation models’ ability to serve relevant ads. GEM’s novel architecture allows it to scale with an increasing number of parameters while consistently generating more precise predictions efficiently. GEM propagates [...] Read More... The post…

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Simeon Ratliff 1 min read

Welcome to the fourth annual Docker State of Application Development survey! Please help us better understand and serve the application development community with just 20 minutes of your time. We want to know where you’re focused, what you’re working on, and what is most important to you. Your thoughts and feedback will help us build...

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Michael Sidharta 8 min read

As our project grows, we're always looking for ways to streamline development, improve performance, and enhance the developer experience. Recently, we've been exploring a shift from our traditional Django REST Framework (DRF) API patterns to a combination of Django Ninja API and Pydantic. This blog post will delve into our motivations for this change, the benefits we've observed, and some…

8 Nov 2025

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You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend related the story to me, about how this person had approached their…

7 Nov 2025

Simeon Ratliff 7 min read

Generic DevSecOps advice may sound good on paper, but it often fails in practice because it ignores team context, workflow, and environment-specific needs. Overloaded controls, broad policies, and misapplied tools disrupt the flow of development. And once flow breaks, security measures are the first to get bypassed. The way forward isn't more rules but smarter...

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Stephen Blum 1 min read

The right way to build AI agents leverages function/tool calling for deterministic JSON output format. This is a critical aspect to creating AI coding agents or any other kind of AI agent, and it enables you to automate virtually any workflow.

Daryl Pereira 1 min read

The problem with vibe coding is that while it is very good for building the core application, where it breaks down is when you want to deploy it: when you get to the operations side.

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Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was...

6 Nov 2025

David Reed (he/his) 15 min read

We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code, faster. But we had one huge problem: builds took 60 minutes. With a build that slow, the whole pipeline gets less agile, and feedback doesn’t come to engineers until…

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Sobia Khan 3 min read

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and chief scientist Bill Dally were honored this week in the U.K. for their foundational work in AI and machine learning. They were among the seven recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, recognized for their contributions to modern machine learning. Presented by His Majesty King Charles […]

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Hey everyone, I’m Kartik Visvanathan, an Engineering Manager at Deliveroo, based in India. I joined the team in 2023, and it’s been an exciting ride ever since. I’ve built some truly impactful products here, including an advertising platform that we scaled into a profitable business, and a corporate orders product that touched every part of our systems—from restaurants to delivery…

5 Nov 2025

4 Nov 2025

JEFF GANGEMI, GROWTH MARKETING PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL 1 min read

Learn how Chili Piper’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, Alina Vandenberghe, balances culture and innovation in the AI era. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, she shares insights on leadership, authenticity, and embedding AI into marketing.

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At Meta, we use invisible watermarking for a variety of content provenance use cases on our platforms. Invisible watermarking serves a number of use cases, including detecting AI-generated videos, verifying who posted a video first, and identifying the source and tools used to create a video. We’re sharing how we overcame the challenges of scaling [...] Read More... The post…

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Jon Galloway 5 min read

The biggest .NET event of the year is just one week away! Join us November 11-13 for .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, plus a Student Zone on November 14th. The post Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025! appeared first on .NET Blog.

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Markus Hacker 4 min read

In Berlin on Tuesday, Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform set to go live in early 2026. The partnership brings together Deutsche Telekom’s trusted infrastructure and operations and NVIDIA AI and Omniverse digital twin platforms to power the AI era of Germany’s industrial transformation. “We have […]

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Janet Wagner 7 min read

We recently published an article about why developers should use an OpenAPI specification as a starting point for an MCP server. The piece led to an interesting discussion on LinkedIn about what makes an MCP server performant and useful. One critical piece is building tools that can orchestrate multiple API calls together for AI consumers. ...

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Esther Lee 6 min read

Two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities or other urban centers by 2050, according to the United Nations, meaning about 2.5 billion people could be added to urban areas by the middle of the century. This highlights an urgent need for more sustainable urban planning and public services. The […]

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3 Nov 2025

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OpenAI introduces IndQA, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in Indian languages. Built with domain experts, IndQA tests cultural understanding and reasoning across 12 languages and 10 knowledge areas.

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Stanko 3 min read

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code can be hard to read and reason about. You also have to implement some kind of identifier for each message to recognize which worker response corresponds to which request. To simplify that, we can write a small wrapper that lets us…

2 Nov 2025

1 Nov 2025

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LLMs take time to generate code. I’ve set things up so I can switch to another task while I wait. But, surprisingly, I’ve found this is usually the wrong idea. First, if I switch, the context I had on the first task drains away. When I return, I’ll need to load that context back. Second, if the first task has…

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At Notion, we’ve been doing a quality sprint to increase our test coverage. Friday was the last day, and I wanted to get some more tests written. Time was short, which forced me to break my usual workflow. Not that I really have a usual workflow, these days. New AI-augmented programming tools and techniques come out every day. Everything is…

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31 Oct 2025

Scott Martin 4 min read

Amidst Gyeongju, South Korea’s ancient temples and modern skylines, Jensen Huang hit the stage at the APEC Summit with historic news: South Korea is leaping into the future with sovereign AI supported by more than a quarter-million NVIDIA GPUs. “It’s vital that we build the ecosystem, not just the AI infrastructure, of Korea,” he said. […]

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Erika R 2 min read

If you host a WordPress or any custom PHP site at Hostinger, speeding up its database now only takes a few clicks. Our updated AI Troubleshooter automatically optimizes databas… The post Make your database think faster – not work harder appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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30 Oct 2025

kevin 10 min read

*This post originally appeared on Shyp's engineering blog in July 2015. It has since been deleted. It is reproduced as closely as possible here. The original is accessible on the Wayback Machine. Eight months ago when I ran our core API tests at Shyp, it took 100 seconds from starting the test to seeing output […]

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ericlippert 3 min read

Hey everyone, I’ve finally turned this blog into a book! Or, rather, I am deep in the process of turning this blog into a book. Yes, it’s about 20 years, give or take, after I first thought of doing so, … Continue reading →

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Isha Salian 3 min read

An unassuming van driving around rural India uses powerful AI technology that’s enabling low-cost, high-quality breast cancer screenings for thousands of women. Run by the nonprofit Health Within Reach Foundation, the Women Cancer Screening Van runs an AI solution by MedCognetics, a Dallas, Texas-based company that’s part of the NVIDIA Inception program for startups. The […]

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