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Web Development Vs Data Science Vs Machine Learning: Which Career Suits You Best
Which career path is right for you? Web Development, Data Analytics, or Machine Learning? Discover the skills, job roles, and future prospects of each field to make an informed decision.
Vibe coding is the future — just don't trust it (yet)
Vibe coding is all the rage. Investment is pouring into companies developing it and CEOs are embracing it. But there are limits to the tech.
Free Code Camp Review: No-Cost Coding Lessons With Excellent Premium Options
The no-cost Free Code Camp is an online learning tool that provides many coding lessons plus valuable connections that help ...
Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition
Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.
Elon Musk's Grok Has a New Coding Model That Emphasizes Speed
The new line of coding model may be faster but also less honest, as it fares worse there than the already problematic Grok 4.
Vibe coding is a hot skill – and security experts are worried
It’s one of the ICT industry’s most in-demand skills, but the popularity of ‘vibe coding’ – which taps generative AI (genAI) to let nearly anyone write apps and autonomous ‘AI agents’ – is worrying ...
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
Bernie Sanders, in a NYT op-ed:Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services,is endangering the health of the American people now and into thefuture. He must resign.Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, overand over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s agreat slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since cominginto office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly theopposite.Powerful and to the point. Sanders, unlike the n
Nine Former Directors of the CDC: ‘RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health’
William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky, and Mandy K. Cohen — all of them former directors of the CDC, under every president from Jimmy Carter to Trump — in a co-bylined op-ed for the NYT:What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. KennedyJr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public healthsystem over the past several months — culminating in his decisionto fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. d
How to Use ALB as a Firewall in IBM Cloud
Do you have a use case where you want to implement a network firewall in IBM Cloud VPC that filters traffic based on hostname? For example, you may want to allow connections only to www.microsoft.com and www.apple.com, while blocking access to all other destinations.Currently, IBM Cloud does not provide a managed firewall service. However, it does support a bring-your-own-firewall approach with vendors such as Fortinet or Juniper, though customers are responsible for deploying and managing these
The Talk Show: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’
For your holiday listening enjoyment: Special guest Andru Edwards joins the show. Topics include Google’s Pixel 10 event and the Pixel 10 family of devices, AI’s effect on computational photography, foldable phones, and some speculation on Apple’s September 9 “Awe Dropping” event.Sponsored by:Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow.Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Get 3 months and 150,000 errors free.Notion: The best AI t
From CloudWatch to Cost Watch: Cutting Observability Costs With Vector
IntroductionIn modern cloud environments, traditional approaches for storing logs in isolated systems have become inadequate. As distributed software systems become more common, where different components run across multiple services and regions, it is essential to continuously collect and forward both system and application logs to a centralized location for in-depth analysis. These logs play an important role in debugging, performance monitoring, and ensuring the overall health and reliability
The AI Co-Pilot: How to Lead When Your Team's Best Player Is a Machine
It’s happening in stand-ups and one-on-ones everywhere. An engineer explains how they cleared a mountain of tickets over the weekend. "How'd you get it all done?" you ask. The answer is a quiet admission, almost a confession: "Uh, I was using Copilot."For years, we've managed teams of people. Now, we're managing teams of people who have an incredibly productive, sometimes inscrutable, and tireless new partner. This AI co-pilot can write boilerplate code in seconds, translate complex logic into a
Exploring QtJambi: A Java Wrapper for Qt GUI Development—Challenges and Insights
I recently experimented with QtJambi, a Java wrapper for the well-known Qt C++ library used to build GUIs. Here are some initial thoughts, remarks and observations:Building a QtJambi project can be somewhat challenging. It requires installing the Qt framework, configuring system paths to Qt’s native libraries, and setting proper JVM options. Although it is possible to bundle native libraries within the wrapper JARs, I haven’t tried this yet.The overall development approach is clean and straightf
Building a Rate Limiter and Throttling Layer Using Spring Boot and Redis
<p>Imagine your backend API is stable, performant and deployed to production. Then someone writes a buggy frontend loop or a bot goes rogue, and suddenly your endpoint gets hit 100 times a second.</p><p>That’s how your server’s CPU spikes, your database becomes overloaded, response times shoot up, and eventually your application turns unusable for real users. Even well-architected systems can crumble under this kind of stress, which leads to unhappy customers and costly incidents. </p>
Top Metrics to Watch in Kubernetes
IntroductionIf you’ve ever found yourself knee-deep in a Kubernetes incident, watching a production microservice fail with mysterious 5xx errors, you know the drill: alerts are firing, dashboards are lit up like a Christmas tree, and your team is scrambling to make sense of a flood of metrics across every layer of the stack. It’s not a question of if this happens-it’s when.In that high-pressure moment, the true challenge isn’t just debugging-it’s knowing where to look. For seasoned SREs and tech
Black Duck Security GitHub App, NuGet MCP Server preview, and more – Daily News Digest
Black Duck's GitHub App enables static application security testing and software composition analysis scans in GitHub repositories.
GitHub CEO steps down as Microsoft integrates platform into CoreAI division amid rising competition in the AI coding market
Dohmke has been the CEO of GitHub since 2021. He joined Microsoft in 2015 through the acquisition of his previous startup, ...
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.
Enhancing Productivity With RAG-Based GenAI Solutions
So what exactly is RAG? In simple terms, it stands for retrieval-augmented generation. Let us focus on these two aspects: retrieval and generation. With standard generative AI (GenAI), you provide a prompt, and a GenAI application would use a large language model to come up with a suitable response for the prompt. Now, imagine an application that can retrieve information from various sources and then generate a response based on the retrieved information. That is exactly how a RAG GenAI works. I
Code That Isn’t Afraid of Change
In this article, you’ll find some personal observations and tips on how to keep a project alive and healthy over the years. No illusions of omniscience. With a touch of healthy cynicism.My personal experience is in building services as part of product development. In this article, I’m talking specifically about that kind of development–not about creating libraries, frameworks, databases, or other wonderful things. Nor am I touching on project-based development, where code is written to order and