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28 Apr 2025

19 min read

Managing and understanding large-scale data ecosystems is a significant challenge for many organizations, requiring innovative solutions to efficiently safeguard user data. Meta’s vast and diverse systems make it particularly challenging to comprehend its structure, meaning, and context at scale. To address these challenges, we made substantial investments in advanced data understanding technologies, as part of [...] Read More... The post…

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MapTiler (Dominik Zochowski) 1 min read

The MapTiler SDK 3D Module lets you display 3D models in GLTF and GLB formats on maps.

27 Apr 2025

Michael Carroll 1 min read

Discover how ecommerce platforms are evolving in 2025 with trends like hyper-personalization, AI, dynamic pricing, and gamification—key insights for staying competitive >>

PubNub Labs Team 1 min read

Discover why IT infrastructure modernization is a game-changer for scalability, security, and cost efficiency—unlocking faster innovation and resilience in a digital-first world

Aasawari Sahasrabuddhe 1 min read

Application and system designs have always been considered the most essential step in application development. All the later steps and technologies to be used depend on how the system has been designe... The post Data Modeling for Java Developers: Structuring With PostgreSQL and MongoDB appeared first on DEV.

26 Apr 2025

Anaiya Raisinghani 1 min read

In this tutorial, we will dive head first into utilizing MongoDB’s Flask-PyMongo library! We will build a basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) Flask-PyMongo application and learn about how intuit... The post Build a Basic CRUD Application With Flask-PyMongo appeared first on DEV.

25 Apr 2025

Taylor Keazirian 7 min read

Have you ever spent hours searching for essential information or found yourself stuck with confusing setup errors, only to realize the answers are undocumented and "known" by a select few team members? When you hear "technical documentation," do you run for the hills, or try to offload the task to someone else? Technical documentation is often treated as an afterthought,…

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Tyler McGoffin 10 min read

Most developers are familiar with the standard Git workflow. You create a branch, make changes, and push those changes back to the same branch on the main repository. Git calls this a centralized workflow. It’s straightforward and works well for many projects. However, sometimes you might want to pull changes from a different branch directly into your feature branch to…

24 Apr 2025

RisingStack Engineering 6 min read

A couple of years ago, using OpenAI’s language models was simple. You had GPT-3, then GPT-3.5, then GPT-4. Each version was clearly better than the last, and if you needed smarter output, you just bumped to the newer one. Easy. That clarity is long gone. Today, OpenAI offers a growing tangle of GPT models – […] The post The State…

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23 Apr 2025

Brad Ediger 3 min read

This is part three of the three-part blog series based on Your Strategic Playbook for DevOps Victory. Successfully launching a DevOps strategy can significantly boost an organization's efficiency and productivity. However, as with any major business decision, adopting a new DevOps strategy requires the investment and satisfaction of various stakeholders. When considering key performance indicators (KPIs) for navigating the shift…

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Read the message sent to Discord employees from CEO Jason Citron sharing his decision to transition out of the role and appoint Humam Sakhnini as the company's new chief executive.

22 Apr 2025

Luce Carter 1 min read

With the release of MongoDB 7.0 in August 2023, we introduced a feature called Queryable Encryption, the first of its kind. With queryable encryption, your data is encrypted, even at rest, with the se... The post Getting Started With Queryable Encryption in the MongoDB C# Driver appeared first on DEV.

Rob 1 min read

To provide consistency between the environments of our developers, I'm a strong proponent of using containers so that every developer is using the same versions of our tools. This is really important for command line tooling that depends on a separately installed language such as NodeJS or PHP as a simple npm i -g can install wildly different versions if…

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Today, we’re announcing a brand new way to express yourself: Nameplates. Add a pop of personality to your display name when it’s shown in your favorite chat channels. Read on to see how they work!

21 Apr 2025

Tim Kelly 1 min read

In this tutorial, we'll build a real-time fraud detection system using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Apache Kafka, and AI-generated embeddings. We'll demonstrate how MongoDB Atlas Vector Search can be ... The post Building a Real-Time AI Fraud Detection System with Spring Kafka and MongoDB appeared first on DEV.

20 Apr 2025

4 min read

As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to read the news at all, having become the unfortunate subjects…

19 Apr 2025

Anaiya Raisinghani 1 min read

DjangoCon Europe is just around the corner, and this year, it’s in Dublin, Ireland. This means two things: I’m legally required to drink my first Guinness (yes, first ever!). I obviously had to build... The post Grab a Pint With Django-MongoDB-Backend, Voyage AI, and LangChain appeared first on DEV.

RisingStack Engineering 3 min read

Meta released Llama 4, the next version of their open-weight language models. It introduces native multimodality, longer context windows, and a more efficient architecture. This post breaks down what’s new, what’s useful, and where to get it. The standout feature is the 10 million token context window—but there’s a tradeoff: none of the current models […] The post What’s New…

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18 Apr 2025

PubNub Labs Team 1 min read

Unlock high-throughput event systems with stateless microservices, CQRS, pub/sub, and scalable architectures—perfect for real-time performance

17 Apr 2025

Erlang Solutions Team 2 min read

Catch up on the latest from Erlang Solutions. This blog round-up covers key tech trends, including big data, digital wallets, IoT security, and more. The post Erlang Solutions’ Blog round-up appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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Serverless Team 1 min read

The Serverless MCP is a powerful debugging tool that brings AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway state and logs directly into your IDE. Eliminate AWS console visits while troubleshooting serverless applications with AI-assisted diagnostics and resource monitoring.

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16 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025

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Last month I gave a talk on the HEIR compiler project at the FHE.org conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The video is on YouTube now, and the slides are public. I plan to write more about HEIR in the coming months, because it’s been an exciting and fulfilling ride!

Rob 2 min read

One of the projects that I'm working on at the moment uses Stripe which means that we need to handle web hooks in order to ascertain what's happened as that's how Stripe communicates back to us. For production and staging, it's easy enough to register a url on Stripe's dashboard, but when developing, it's a little more complicated as our…

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14 Apr 2025

PayPal Tech Blog Team 3 min read

The following is a repost from the PayPal Developer Blog . Building on the release of PayPal’s MCP servers , PayPal is excited to introduce the PayPal Agentic Toolkit *. This toolkit empowers developers to seamlessly integrate PayPal’s comprehensive suite of APIs — including those for managing orders, invoices, disputes, shipment tracking, transaction search and subscriptions — into various AI…

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Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.

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Dan Carton 5 min read

In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time…

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13 Apr 2025

PubNub Labs Team 1 min read

Explore secure, production-grade data sharing with encryption, access control, and policy enforcement to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and compliance in real-time systems

jonskeet 10 min read

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an area I’ve found really fun though. An introduction to postcodes in the UK … Continue reading Election 2029:…

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This past December I had the opportunity to put together my first proper home office. One aspect of the office is a bookshelf to corral all my books and memorabilia that up to this point have been scattered around the house. For this project I utilized three Ikea Billy bookcases, but to make the project really shine, I added LED…

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11 Apr 2025

Shaun Wong 5 min read

Recently we launched sub-issues, a feature designed to tackle complex issue management scenarios. This blog post delves into the journey of building sub-issues, what we learned along the way, how we implemented sub-issues, and the benefits of being able to use sub-issues to build itself. What are sub-issues? Sub-issues are a way to break a larger issue into smaller, more…

vladmihalcea 1 min read

Introduction In this article, I’m going to review the Foundations of AI and Machine Learning for Java Developers video course from my fellow Java Champion, Frank Greco. If you are new to AI and ML and want to get a great introduction to these topics, then you should definitely join watch the video lessons created by Frank Greco. And, thanks…

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Stanko 3 min read

On my current project, I'm making a Progressive Web App (PWA) and I was really annoyed that the status bar on iOS was completely transparentAlthough the option is called black-translucent. When the content scrolls behind it, it blends with the status bar elements, and it doesn't look great. I couldn't find a native solution, so I tried using CSS instead.…

10 Apr 2025

Michal Toiba 2 min read

Microsoft is thrilled to announce our participation in PyTexas 2025, taking place this year in the vibrant city of Austin, Texas! At this year’s event, Microsoft is proud to contribute to the community’s growth and excitement by hosting a booth and delivering an engaging talk. The post Microsoft at PyTexas 2025: Join Us for a Celebration of Python and Innovation…

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9 Apr 2025

8 Apr 2025

Rob 1 min read

With the release of macOS 18.4, Safari no longer shows a padlock when you visit a website that uses https. I assume there's a reason for this but I was scratching my head trying to work out how to view the SSL certificate when I went to a new-to-me website domain that my bank asked me to go to. This…

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7 Apr 2025

1 min read

Today, OpenAI is sharing the EU Economic Blueprint—a set of proposals to help Europe seize the promise of artificial intelligence, drive sustainable economic growth across the region, and ensure that AI is developed and deployed by Europe, in Europe, for Europe.

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5 Apr 2025

Pamela Fox 3 min read

Microsoft is holding an AI Agents Hackathon, and we want to see what you can build with Python! We'll have 20+ live streams showing you how to build AI agents with Python using popular agent frameworks and Microsoft technologies. Then, you can submit your project for a chance to win prizes, including a Best in Python prize! The post Build…

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4 Apr 2025

Courtney Webster 3 min read

The April 2025 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code is now available. This update introduces enhancements to the Copilot experience in Notebooks, improved support for editable installs, faster and more reliable diagnostics, and the addition of custom Node.js arguments with Pylance, and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2025 Release appeared…

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Bootstrap v5.3.5 was released as a hotfix for a regression from upstream in Autoprefixer that caused floating form labels to always be “floated” in Firefox due to unintended CSS output. Read the GitHub v5.3.5 changelog for a full list of changes (including a ton of documentation and dependency updates) in this release. Get the release Head to https://getbootstrap.com for the…

PayPal Tech Blog Team 3 min read

The following is a repost from the PayPal Developer Blog by Prakhar Mehrotra, SVP of Artificial Intelligence, PayPal At PayPal, we strive to make it easier for developers to access our services. Today, we are taking the first step to allow developers to embrace the new paradigm of agentic commerce by adopting the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and placing our…

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I had a fun idea for a small project this weekend, and so I quickly put it together over the couple of days. The result is Price Perspective. Humor me: have you ever bought something, considered the price, and wondered how that price would look to someone else? Someone in the developing world, or a billionaire, or just your friend…

3 Apr 2025

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Bootstrap v5.3.4 is here with several bug fixes and a load of documentation updates. Here are a handful of highlights from the CSS and JS changes: Fixed modal and offcanvas headers collapsing when any padding variables were set to 0. Fixed close button display in color modes. Fixed light mode carousel when in dark mode. Updated floating labels for better…

Stanko 7 min read

Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates. Here's the final result: The effect involves quite a bit of HTML and CSS but no JavaScript. I did use JavaScript to…

2 Apr 2025

2 min read

Open source has played an essential role in the tech industry and beyond. Whether in the AI/ML, web, or mobile space, our open source community grew and evolved while connecting people worldwide. At Meta Open Source, 2024 was a year of growth and transformation. Our open source initiatives addressed the evolving needs and challenges of [...] Read More... The post…

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Rob 4 min read

With the recent release of the new OpenAI ChatGPT that can do image generation, I thought that I might add a feature image to my last blog post. I've had mixed experiences of AI generation of images, probably because I'm not good at prompting them. I started with this: We now have an image, but it doesn't have a credit.…

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With all the new video game adaptations coming out in April, we’re asking Veronica, Cody, and Emi what their favorite ones have been so far and which games deserve a great adaptation that has yet to come.

1 Apr 2025

PubNub Labs Team 1 min read

Powering next-gen sports media: AI, edge computing, and blockchain for real-time streaming, analytics, and immersive fan experiences at scale

Tinder 16 min read

Authored by: Igor Sokolov, Jessica Hickey, and Rongxin Du Elasticsearch is a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch powers the Recommendations (further referred to as Recs ), Trust & Safety capabilities and logging systems at Tinder. Over 90% of all our Recs comes from a…

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It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about parenting, in 2023 about friendship bracelets. and in 2022 about cocktails. This year it’s a bit of a meandering stroll through some ideas around mutual aid and self-reliance. Maternity wards If you walk around the maternity ward at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside medical center outside of Portland, Oregon, you might notice the same…