Riviera is the Dropbox content processing platform that’s been iteratively improving content transformation in our products for roughly a decade.
20 Jul
The easy case is easy. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The main data structure you’ll use in NumPy, Python’s core library for numerical computing, is the N-dimensional array. Sometimes you need to reorganize the values in a NumPy array into a different layout. That’s what NumPy’s reshape() is for. It changes an array’s shape without changing its data, so you can fit the same values into whatever configuration your program…
Where Direct Debit still wins, and where card-on-file falls short.
Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align with these principles, we are updating the default behavior of the Nearby Connections API regarding how it interacts with device radios. What is changing? Previously, the Nearby Connections API could automatically toggle Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios ON to facilitate…
Build a streaming Next.js chatbot with Vercel AI SDK v7, then add a typed tool call, structured output with Zod, and deployment safeguards.
There's a third way to automate Claude Code, and unlike /goal and /loop, it doesn't need your laptop open at all. Anthropic just shipped routines: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. Read more
On a recent project, I watched a team spend the better part of a week tracking down a single regression. The pipeline was a long-running simulation suite. Each test run took hours. There were dozens of commits to check, and the only way to check them was manually: run the sim, wait, evaluate the result, […] The post Here’s How…
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Using NumPy reshape() to Change the Shape of an Array. By working through these questions, you’ll revisit how to reshape an array into a compatible shape, add or remove dimensions, and use the order parameter to control how NumPy rearranges your data. Reshaping is a core skill when you work with NumPy…
Bristol Myers Squibb Building Life Science Industry’s Most Advanced AI Factory on NVIDIA Vera Rubin
NvidiaErin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious results to show for it. And they’re doubling down. BMS announced today it is deploying its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, this one built on […]
Why Most Single Source of Truth Initiatives Fail (And What Successful Teams Do Differently)
Housing.com“We have multiple dashboards showing different numbers. Which one is correct?” If you’ve worked in data long enough, you’ve probably heard this question more times than you’d like. Sales reports one revenue figure. Finance reports another. Product Analytics has a third. Executives spend more time debating whose dashboard is correct than discussing what action to take. The natural response is…
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
A look inside Unseen Studio's approach to transforming abstract ideas, hidden stories, and complex concepts into experiences people can explore and remember.
Build a Chrome extension from scratch with JavaScript using Manifest V3, a popup, content script, service worker, storage, and shortcuts.
AI transparency is the practice of making an artificial intelligence system's data, model behavior...
null How AI Can Improve Agile Development Without Replacing Human Judgments on SitePoint.
null GIF, MP4, WebM, or Animated WebP: Choosing the Right Format for Web Animation on SitePoint.
Laravel SMS Catcher captures outgoing SMS notifications during local development and displays them in a phone-inspired inbox dashboard. The post Laravel SMS Catcher: A Local Dashboard for SMS Notifications appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
Laravel Installer v5.31.0 introduces a command to scaffold Laravel packages, along with environment variable propagation for node-less setups and automated PHP version matching for GitHub Actions. The post Scaffold Packages with the `laravel package` Command in Laravel Installer v5.31.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
Keep pricing and numbers deterministic in AI products. Let the LLM write prose only. A hybrid architecture from a real deployment advisor.
If you've ever looked at your server and wondered why it's using swap even though plenty of RAM is available, you're not alone. This is a common scenario on Linux systems, and it can impact performance if not addressed. Continue reading...
Navigating AI overenthusiasm in financial services
19 Jul
Whether you use or even like AI, the genie is out of the bottle. What used to feel like a more personalized Google search can now index your entire codebase, explain how unfamiliar areas are structured, warn you of system design implications, and build features of surprising complexity. (Assuming, of course, you have the vocabulary […] The post A Skeptic…
Oliver and Carae had no shortage of business ideas. Over the years, the travel-loving couple experimented with everything from an eco-friendly swimsuit brand to plans for opening … The post Girl on a Zebra: How Oliver and Carae built a travel blog with 156K monthly readers appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Build product analytics with a SQLite events table in D1 instead of Google Analytics: whitelisted events, server tracking, beacons, funnel SQL.
Learn Playwright end-to-end testing from scratch: install it, write resilient tests, handle login, mock APIs, debug failures, and run everything in CI.
The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting. She had already slaved the...
Every time I think I've seen it all from spammers, they do something that surprises me. The ingenuity of bad actors is an interesting thing. I always wonder what sort of world we'd live in if their efforts were focused on good. What sucks the most is when they abuse something that's intended to bring people together. Case in point,…
AI agents perform best with accurate, real-time context, and a CDP like Twilio Segment provides it. By delivering clean, consented data and only the traits agents need, it enables smarter, faster, and safer decisions that enhance customer experiences and drive measurable results.
18 Jul
Practice inline with a short kotlin challenge.
Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.
A product requirements document is a short, shared artifact that states the core problem a piece of work solves and what has to be true to call it done. It is not a full spec with every edge case and acceptance criterion. It sits higher than that: the problem, the goals, the boundaries of scope, […] The post Build Alignment…
null Building Dynamic Interfaces: Integrating Generative Video APIs into Web Applications on SitePoint.
Generate sitemap.xml and robots.txt dynamically in Astro SSR without @astrojs/sitemap. API routes, typed registries, and testable pure functions.
Generate sitemap.xml and robots.txt dynamically in Astro SSR without @astrojs/sitemap. API routes, typed registries, and testable pure functions.
One thing I like about 11ty is that common tasks for development oriented blogs are easily handled and syntax highlighting is no exception. I installed the Syntax Highlighting Plugin just like the documentation asked me to. Then, I had to modify my code blocks in my blog post Markdown files to indicate what language they were. Thankfully, I had only…
Integrating the right apps and software into your Twilio Flex contact center helps you create a personalized customer experience. Read our top integrations.
17 Jul
Apple’s Foundation Models framework puts a large language model right on the device — private, offline, and free to call. In this free chapter from Apple Foundation Models, you’ll build a SwiftUI chat app that checks availability, sends a prompt, and displays the response, using an on-device LLM in just two lines of Swift.
By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production environment rather than a separate ML silo. Some of those decisions weren’t obvious, and a few revealed their trade-offs only under production load. This…
Cloudflare has deployed two WAF rules in response to high-severity vulnerabilities disclosed to us by the WordPress security team. The new rules protect all Cloudflare customers using affected WordPress versions, but customers should still update immediately to a patched release
Responsible AI: Governance, Principles, and Practical GuideResponsible AI is the...
Ask a tech company CFO where the quarter's margin is landing, and you will get a...
What's New in Tiger Cloud: Bigger Performance Gains, Wider Platform Reach, Better Visibility
TimescaleTiger Cloud ships up to 160x faster writes, native BM25 search, more storage, new regions, and better visibility on Postgres.
Dr. R.J. Nowling of MSOE discusses building production-ready ML systems on Ampere CPUs, teaching students real-world data pipelines and deployment. Beyond the Model: Building Real World Machine Learning on SitePoint.
Learn how to optimize Arm-based build servers with AmpereOne CPUs — RAM disks, CPU governor tuning, and CONFIG_HZ adjustments for faster LLVM-MinGW builds. Optimizing Arm-based Build Servers on SitePoint.
Practice reified with a short kotlin challenge.
Tracking data is now the richest signal in sport, but the real gap is turning the...
The most expensive part of a small feature request used to be writing the code. Now it’s usually the meeting about whether or not to write the code. That’s a real shift, and it quietly breaks a lot of engineering instincts. Engineers learn early that most “small asks” aren’t small: they need tests, a rollout plan, someone to think through…
When you deploy Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) connectors on AWS, one of the first challenges you face is predicting and controlling the cost of the required infrastructure. Without clear benchmarks, it is difficult to make informed decisions about workload sizing, environment configuration, and long-term investment. Part 1 of this 3-part blog series covered the fundamentals […]
Running Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) connectors in production on AWS requires deliberate architecture decisions around isolation, managed services, and security layering. In Part 1 of this series, we covered the fundamentals of data space architectures and EDC per the International Data Space Association’s (IDSA) standards. If you are new to EDC, we recommend starting there. […]
This three-part blog series guides you through implementing Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) on AWS, from foundational concept to production deployment. Part 1 establishes the theoretical foundation with IDSA standards, the Dataspace Protocol (DSP), and core EDC architecture. Part 2 provides production-ready AWS deployment patterns using services like Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Aurora, […]
Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we’re sharing 13 demos that walk you through what Agent Platform can do. Each one teaches a concept, a pattern, or an architecture you can put to work immediately. The best part? You don't have to follow them step-by-step. Install Agents…
Many BigQuery customers rely on policy tags for protecting their sensitive information in BigQuery. Policy tags were the go-to solution for applying column-level access controls, allowing only users with the right permission to view sensitive columns like personally identifiable information (PII). It was a robust and effective system — for its time. However, data ecosystems have grown in complexity, and…
Someone's subsidizing your coding agent. Aperture shows whether it's you.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads — a Key Metric for Agentic AI
NvidiaLowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.
Hard links and soft links in Linux both use the ln command but behave very differently. This practical guide explains exactly how each works, when to use which, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that catch even experienced sysadmins. Continue reading...
A technical breakdown of the pipeline, rendering techniques, and performance optimizations behind ZERO, an immersive scroll driven WebGL experience built for desktop and mobile.
It's fixed, but the fix isn't getting there. The post Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of the journey. Today, we’re celebrating Kotlin and the people who have made […]
Every new model release promises better reasoning, lower costs, or new capabilities,...
A practical conference session on building PHP extensions with Go and FrankenPHP, then wiring them into Laravel and Symfony as native-feeling features. It uses an in-memory LRU cache as the example and offers a nice tour of framework flexibility and PHP internals. Read more
I run a handful of Ubuntu virtual machines in Proxmox. They host applications via Docker Compose, VPN service, NUT services, and a few other odds and ends around my home lab. Virtual machines I’ve created within the last year and a half or so are entirely under the control of OpenTofu (for creating the virtual […] The post How I…
The Real Python Podcast – Episode #303: Free-Threaded Python's History & uv in Production
Real PythonHow many attempts have been made to remove Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)? How do they compare to the current approach? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox…
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
Optimizing token consumption is key to keeping AI coding assistants fast and accurate. You might not be writing every line of code any more, but now you’re responsible for directing those coding assistants to focus on getting the most out of each token. Context bloat increases latency and causes models to forget instructions or hallucinate, it also costs money and…
Developers who move fast still need to do it together
Stack OverflowAt MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting dev work towards higher-level strategy while increasing decision fatigue; why human taste, community feedback, and mentorship are becoming more essential than ever for developer careers; and the new GitHub Copilot announcements…
Author: Jayshmi A Special thanks to soumyajyoti banerjee for his contributions throughout this project and Sunil Rathee for his guidance. The counterintuitive story of how 350+ carefully engineered features + a simple MLP matched industry leaders and what that says about where the real moat lives in ML. Introduction Predicted lifetime value is one of the most fundamental signals in…
Building Swiggy’s AI onboarding companion for delivery executives, where accuracy alone wasn’t enough and mentorship had to scale. For a new Delivery Executive (DE) joining Swiggy, the experience is often overwhelming, throwing a world of SOPs, incentive structures, zone logistics, and app workflows at them all at once. This friction is evident in our metrics, but the drop-off isn’t due…
Engineering across all Swiggy Apps has always had a simple problem with a very large surface area: we ship fast, but every release, every production signal, and every operational review touches too many systems. For a single release manager or on-call engineer, the day could start across Jira, Confluence, Bitrise, Play Console, Crashlytics, New Relic, Google Sheets, ImageKit dashboards, and…
Polar payments in Astro for one-time purchases and subscriptions: server-side checkout routes, lazy customer creation, and entitlement checks in D1.
Add Polar payments to Astro with subscriptions, one-time purchases, Better Auth, webhooks, D1 entitlements, and local testing.
If you currently federate enterprise customers using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and want to connect with third-party applications without migrating to OpenID Connect (OIDC), this Cross App Access (XAA) guide is for you. The Identity Assertion Authorization Grant specification, the basis of XAA, was originally designed with OIDC in mind. To use it in SAML applications, you must accommodate…
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine,…
IT and software leaders at healthcare organizations are feeling the pressure to deliver software faster while maintaining compliance and reliability. Our recent healthcare software delivery research (coming soon!) found that 68% of organizations struggle to increase software delivery velocity without introducing operational or governance risk. Let’s talk about it! On July 30, I’ll have the pleasure of moderating a panel…
Modularity and mortality: The importance of ‘skin in the game’
Learn how to make a professional email address that makes the perfect first impression with your audience in the inbox.
16 Jul
Vocalizer is a native PHP extension for local speech synthesis, embedding sherpa-onnx and audio.cpp to run eight TTS model families — including Chatterbox voice cloning — behind one API. The post Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
For most large enterprises, AI transformation is a story of silos — business units...
GitHub in Rovo for software teams AI is making it faster to write code. The new bottleneck is understanding the work around the code: what changed, why it changed, who reviewed it, and how it connects to the plan. That context lives across Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and the conversations that happen around them. Teamwork Graph […] The post Bring GitHub…
Developer-focused explainer on GPT-5.6 Sol. Covers what Sol's 80 Coding Agent Index (2.8 pts above Fable 5) means for real workflows, the ultra mode parallel subagent feature (model-side orchestration that splits complex tasks across parallel workers), the 54% token efficiency gain, and practical guidance on when to use Sol vs alternatives. NOT a benchmark table — a workflow decision guide…
From experiment to insight: how Dotmatics Luma and Databricks make AI-ready science a reality
DatabricksThe gap between scientific data and scientific insightModern scientific workflows...
Take Home Assistant beyond your home network with Tailscale.
Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
Google CloudFor the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms. Google received the furthest and highest in positioning on the "Vision" and "Execution" axes and is now ranked #1 in three out of four Critical Capabilities Use Cases. We believe this recognition reflects our continued investment in frontier AI research,…
Moving fast should not mean breaking things for your users. While testing on localhost is a good start, you need a near identical replica of production to catch any bugs before your code goes live. That is where a staging environment comes in. Heroku pipelines handle the infrastructure layout for you, keeping your deployment workflow clean and automated. The post…
The skills gap behind agentic AI — and how Databricks is closing it with a new context engineer certification and agent trainings
DatabricksEngineering the Future: The Context Engineer CertificationAs organizations race to...
You're standing at the register. You tap your card. A tiny spinner appears for maybe...
AI assistants are quickly spreading across the surface layer of work. They draft...
Learn why infrastructure monitoring misses real user-facing failures, and how business transaction monitoring closes the gap with traces and P95 alerts. Why business transaction monitoring matters for web app performance on SitePoint.
In this edition of From the Captain’s Chair, we’re interviewing Mohammad-Ali A'râbi, author, public speaker, and software engineer.
Configuring secure, sovereign AIOps for IT teams in regulated sectors with OpManager and Ollama
SitePointLearn how to configure sovereign AIOps by integrating ManageEngine OpManager with a local Ollama runtime for regulated, air-gapped IT teams. Configuring secure, sovereign AIOps for IT teams in regulated sectors with OpManager and Ollama on SitePoint.
A free, open-source, hands-on course that walks you through modernizing a real legacy ASP.NET application all the way to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, step by step. The post Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners appeared first on .NET Blog.
Fitness and mindfulness apps lose users when workouts feel solo. How real-time chat, presence, live classes, and push keep members engaged without needing to build your own backend.
Also: engineering leaders concerned about continued increase in code review load, devs at enterprises surprised by high enterprise pricing, and more
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website…
Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model updates whether migrating to an entirely new model or updating to a newer checkpoint within the same model family, like moving from an earlier Gemini version to Gemini 3.5 — often require a…
Data scientists and data engineers often find themselves caught between two worlds: SQL and Python. Some find SQL more intuitive, especially when combined with a powerful engine like BigQuery to process data at scale. Others find it easier to work in Python with its rich ecosystem of libraries and runtimes. Historically, using these languages together in one notebook required moving…
Can teams of AI agents collaborate to create a short film? As part of an internal Google generative media hackathon, we put this question to the test – specifically, to uncover whether AI agents could work collaboratively in a domain less innately familiar than software development. We gave each crew three agents with distinct roles and had them collaborate through…
Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.