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Ransomware-Resilient Storage: the New Frontline Defense in a High-Stakes Cyber Battle
Cybersecurity has evolved, with ransomware now primarily targeting data storage and backups. To combat this, modern defense strategies focus on making storage systems more resilient. Key tactics include using immutable storage that prevents data from being altered or deleted, employing AI-powered detection, and implementing air-gapping to create isolated, tamper-proof recovery points.
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Zero-Downtime Critical Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades at Scale
Engineers can avoid common pitfalls in large-scale infrastructure upgrades by studying others' experiences. The article provides lessons learned from big firms like eBay and Snowflake, offering solutions for legacy systems, performance validation, and rollback planning. It emphasizes systematic preparation and clear communication to handle challenges and ensure zero-downtime upgrades at scale.
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Infusing AI into Your Java applications
Equip yourself with the basic AI knowledge and skills you need to start building intelligent and responsive Enterprise Java applications. With the help of our simple chatbot application for booking interplanetary space trips, see how Java frameworks like LangChain4j with Quarkus make it easy and efficient to interact with LLMs and create satisfying applications for end-users.
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Sandbox as a Service: Building an Automated AWS Sandbox Framework
This article outlines an automated AWS Sandbox Framework to provide secure, cost-controlled environments for innovation. It leverages AWS services like Control Tower and open-source tools to automate provisioning, enforce security policies, manage resource lifecycles, and optimize costs through automated cleanup and governance.
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Backend FinOps: Engineering Cost-Efficient Microservices in the Cloud
Backend FinOps integrates financial discipline into microservices, crucial for cutting cloud costs. Challenges such as resource fragmentation and cold starts underscore the need for intelligent design, effective language choice, robust tagging, and automation. Implementing FinOps via IaC, CI/CD checks, and dynamic autoscaling (e.g., Karpenter) ensures sustained efficiency.
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A First-Timer’s Guide to Curating a Technical Conference Track
One first-time track host shares the process, constraints, and takeaways from building a track from scratch at QCon London 2025.
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Jakarta EE 11 Overview: Virtual Threads, Records, and the Future of Persistence
Jakarta EE 11 delivers enhancements that include support for Java 17 and 21, integration with Java records and virtual threads, and the introduction of the Jakarta Data specification for unified SQL and NoSQL persistence. This release simplifies enterprise Java and establishes the groundwork for Jakarta EE 12, which will advance capabilities in data management.
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Spring AI 1.0 Delivers Easy AI Systems and Services
AI is here to stay, and it represents a unique and wonderful opportunity for Java and Spring developers. For most people, “AI engineering” simply means calling an LLM-based service over HTTP. In this article, we’ll examine the new Spring AI 1.0 project and explore how it can be used to integrate AI more effectively.
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Optimizing Search Systems: Balancing Speed, Relevance, and Scalability
Innovative software engineer focused on optimizing search performance in dynamic environments. This article highlights key strategies from our QCon San Francisco 2024 presentation, addressing challenges faced by platforms like Uber Eats in data indexing and retrieval. Our advancements ensure swift, relevant user experiences amidst ever-growing datasets.
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Ceph RBD Turns 15: a Story of Open Source Creation
Fifteen years ago, Ceph RBD began as a community-driven idea that grew into essential infrastructure powering today's cloud platforms. This insider story from Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub reveals how two developers started a distributed storage that now supports OpenStack and Kubernetes through transparent, collaborative development.
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Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI
In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow. We introduce a practical approach to staying in control while working with these tools by adopting key best practices from the discipline of software architecture, including defining an implementation plan, splitting tasks, and so on.
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Engineering Principles for Building a Successful Cloud-Prem Solution
Discover how Cloud-Prem solutions combine cloud efficiency with on-premise control, meeting data sovereignty and compliance demands while optimizing operational costs and enhancing customer security.