OEMs are going D2C: Here's what they have to do to succeed
4 Apr 2024
Data replication: The first step toward value-driven mainframe modernization
3 Apr 2024
Add-on Controls for Heroku Teams At Heroku, trust and security are top priorities and we’ve been steadily adding more security controls to the platform. Recently, we launched SSO for Heroku Teams, and today, we’re excited to announce more enhancements for teams: add-on controls. Previously, this feature was only available to Heroku Enterprise customers. The Elements […] The post Add-on Controls…
User Management and Channel Management allow you to manage the App Context metadata about your Users and Channels, as well their relationships
The channel monitor allows an administrator to watch live previews of conversations happening in real-time and take action
Introduction Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java. Articles The pick of this week is this article about Jakarta Persistence 3.2, which brings a lot of improvements to the JPA specifications,…
BizOps Workspace offers a suite of tools for managing data and users in PubNub—all through an intuitive, no-code user interface.
Merchants can now collect subscription payments across the UK and Europe directly within the Ecommpay platform
Tackling AI risks: Your reputation is at stake
Macro trends in the tech industry | April 2024
Retail media networks: are they the future of digital advertising?
2 Apr 2024
I install Python apps on my Mac using pipx like this: pipx install rst2pdf This will then install rst2pdf into its own isolated environment so that its dependencies do not affect and are not affected by any other Python app I have installed. Internally, it creates a venv at /.local/pipx/venvs/rst2pdf with symlinks to the currently installed python in the bin…
How we reflected our views, and those we hear from our customers, to the PSR
Happy Easter! The second release of 2024 is here! It’s the result of 2 months of work by me and many contributors, aiming on releasing a v2 soon.
Harvey partners with OpenAI to build a custom-trained model for legal professionals.
Unlocking the secret sauce to ace the Thoughtworks data interview
1 Apr 2024
It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about friendship bracelets and the year before about cocktails. This year it’s parenting. Parenting articles are a dime a dozen and always bury the lede behind a long story. I’ll skip that. How to think about your child and your role as a parent These are framing devices. Concrete things to do to…
Oscar brings AI to health insurance, reducing costs and improving patient care.
We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up
31 Mar 2024
Bookmarks for April 2024: 3 links - How I write tests in Go :: Very Good Software, Not Virus; Why you need a "WTF Notebook"; How to boost your metabolism at any age - CNN.
29 Mar 2024
How does Rust allocate a zeroed Vec and what does it cost?
We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.
28 Mar 2024
How to connect your GPT on OpenAI to a backend Node.js app Late in 2023, OpenAI introduced GPTs, a way for developers to build customized versions of ChatGPT that can bundle in specialized knowledge, follow preset instructions, or perform actions like reaching out to external APIs. As more and more businesses and individuals use ChatGPT, […] The post Building a…
Read how Vocalink, Goldman Sachs, SumUp and Solaris are using Erlang and Elixir BEAM languages in their tech stack. The post Erlang and Elixir in FinTech: 4 use cases appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Speed and performance might make you think of motorcycles with big shiny chrome parts, but that’s not what this post is about (apologies). Instead, it’s about the speed and performance of a secure Chromebook user experience. Today, we’re going to talk about the steps that educational institutions from preschool to graduate school need to take […] The post Go Big…
Introduction Heroku is excited to introduce nine new dyno types to our fleets and product offerings. In 2014, we introduced Performance-tier dynos, giving our customers fully dedicated resources to run their most compute-intensive workloads. Now in 2024, today’s standards are rapidly increasing as complex applications and growing data volumes consume more memory and carry heavier […] The post Expanded Memory…
Zelma uses GPT-4 to make education data accessible.
Technology Radar at volume 30: Why it still matters
TL;DR Like numerous other orgs, we transitioned (actually, flipped overnight) to being fully remote during the first COVID pandemic lockdown in 2020. It worked out great in the first year, started losing its sheen in the second year, and became detrimental to creativity and collaboration by the third year. It failed for us in the most critical areas. We then…
27 Mar 2024
Real-time visibility and how it's transforming logistics with dynamic insights
We will take a look at how to set up a RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation – demo with the Anthropic Claude 3 Sonet model, using google’s CoLab platform. CoLab offers free instances with T4 GPUs sometimes, but we’ll only need a simple CPU instance, since we access the model only through API. RAG can […] The post Practical Tutorial…
The User Behavior dashboard gives you a better understanding of how long users engage with your content, either actively or passively
This blog explores the benefits of edge computing and what partnering with an edge messaging service provider means for your app.
Don't let inflated titles fool you! Focus on building real skills & impact for lasting career growth in software engineering.
Craft groundbreaking 3D experiences for the future of visionOS. Master essential RealityKit concepts to build immersive worlds. Learn to create captivating scenes with animations, physics, and visual effects. Leverage Reality Composer Pro for no-code 3D development. Integrate your creations seamlessly into visionOS apps and redefine user interaction.
This course is for junior to mid-level iOS developers who want to learn more about visionOS. You'll learn to design apps for accessibility and use RealityKit and Reality Composer Pro to create augmented reality experiences.
Getting traction with Data Mesh
Unleashing engineering effectiveness for business growth
10 recommendations for a successful enterprise data mesh implementation
26 Mar 2024
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze how PostgreSQL Heap-Only-Tuple or HOT Update optimization works, and why you should avoid indexing columns that change very frequently. PostgreSQL Tables and Indexes Unlike SQL Server or MySQL, which store table records in a Clustered Index, in Oracle and PostgreSQL, records are stored in Heap Tables that have unique row identifiers.…
Recently, I've been thinking about those early days of when I first started out coding. There were a bajillion things to learn, right? And…
Secure your web chat app with encryption, authentication, DDoS protection, and real-time monitoring. Learn best practices to ensure scalability and privacy
In order to verify a JWT created with an asymmetric key, the verifier needs to get the correct public key. One way to do is described in RFC7517 which describes the JSON Web Key format. Within the header of the JWT there is a kid property which is the key ID which is then used to find the correct key…
Real-time interactive streaming is an effective way to engage and globally connect with audiences in real-time.
In this interview, Marie-Laure Bardonnet, Log Management Senior Engineering Manager, describes the journey of learning, growing, and scaling a team of 4 backend engineers to over 30 frontend and backend engineers at Datadog.
25 Mar 2024
AI media creation has expanded to incredible video art and a host of other important improvements, and LimeWire is leading the way in creating an awesome interface for the average user to become an AI artist. Limewire has just released its Developer API, a method for engineers like us to create dynamic AI art on the fly! Quick Hits Free…
Dating apps are a billion dollar industry, and you want in. Find out how to build a dating app with real-time messaging and matching components.
Learn real-time tracking of a device and their location update on a map through JavaScript Google Maps API and PubNub.
Since we introduced Sora to the world last month, we’ve been working with artists to learn how Sora might aid in their creative process.
24 Mar 2024
Real-time APIs can be used to enhance supply chain and distribution networks.
Before we begin: Doors open for the latest version of The Software Essentialist on March 31st. Join the waitlist for perks, bonuses & 5…
21 Mar 2024
Recently we introduced a write back cache to our Asset Library. This improvement makes life easier for both our customers and our developers. This post walks through the why, the why not and the how.
Introducing Erlang Doctor: Leveraging the tracing capabilities of BEAM languages like Erlang and Elixir. The post Guess Less with Erlang Doctor appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
JetBrains uses OpenAI’s API to build its fastest-growing product ever.
The five technical safeguards from HIPAA are access control, audit controls, integrity, person or entity authentication, and transmission security.
Today, we’re pleased to introduce a security feature addition for Heroku pay-as-you-go customers: Single Sign-On (SSO). SSO makes it easy to centralize and manage access to all the various tools and services used by your employees. Previously, SSO was only available for Heroku Enterprise. SSO improves the employee experience in several ways. You can use […] The post SSO for…
Christopher Nolan’s 2020 sci-fi action thriller Tenet is a heist film in which the titular organization attempts to stop the end of the world through time travel.1 Due to the sensitivity of the main characters mission, they use a call-and-response passphrase: “We live in a twilight world.” and “There are no friends at dusk.” This phrase is used to identify…
20 Mar 2024
Build intelligent chatbot conversations with Webhooks in Django with this detailed guide.
PubNub's real-time decisioning and analytics solutions is poised to shape the way online games evolve to keep their players and publishers happy
Real-time decisioning and analytics that gives you the power to to observe, respond, and refine your app's strategy
Developing a chat app? In this blog, we take a look at the key features of modern day chat apps.
Men & gender equity: top allyship tips
19 Mar 2024
At Heroku, we believe the best choices are the ones you don’t have to make. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the preview release of Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks. Our Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) offering brings the beloved Heroku language and framework experience to your local machine and beyond. Whether you’re coding in Ruby, Node.js, […] The post Heroku Cloud…
What is edge computing, and why are we moving our computing from the cloud, to the fog, to the edge?
The most common use of JWTs is as an authentication token, usually within an OAuth2 workflow. Creating these tokens is part and parcel of the authentication library that you use. I recently had a requirement to use a JWT independent of authentication and these are some notes on what I learned when researching with Lcobucci\JWT. Make up of a JWT…
Millions of Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client Users to Benefit From Upgrading to Cisco Secure Client
OpenDNSThe Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client has long provided DNS security for millions of Umbrella users. In response to customer feedback, and as Negisa Taymourian covered in her blog post last month, we’ve introduced a more advanced client: Cisco Secure Client — our next-gen endpoint agent that goes beyond VPN. Cisco Secure Client offers multi-function capability, […] The post Millions of…
How to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Chat with Seald and PubNub, with code examples
The connection ID isn't dependent on IP addresses. It remains persistent even as users switch between different networks such as 5G and Wi-Fi.
Practical tips and common mistakes in your job search
18 Mar 2024
Easily the most important and complex screen in the Buy on Etsy Android app is the listing screen, where all key information about an item for sale in the Etsy marketplace is displayed to buyers. Far from just a title and description, a price and a few images, over the years the listing screen has come to aggregate ratings and…
Or how to make naïve hosters shut down your victim’s server. Do you want to bring down your victim’s game servers? Do they host their game servers on cheap VPSes at hosters who are not that experienced with networking? Is running an actual DoS against the server too expensive and illegal for you? Just grab a server for yourself from…
I joined Bazaarvoice as a DevOps engineer into the Cloud engineering team in September 2023. It has been a very busy first 4 months learning a lot in terms of technical and soft skills. In this post I have highlighted my key learnings from my start at BV. Communication One of the key takeaways I […]
Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still remember my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, and then my first day at Mozilla. I still remember my first day coding for MetaMask. This…
Generative AI can transform gaming, craft unique content, dynamic storytelling, enhancing testing procedures, and creating personalized experiences.
Holiday Extras rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise across every team, boosting productivity by 500 hours weekly.
Salesforce integrates OpenAI’s enterprise-ready LLMs to transform customer applications.
Superhuman introduces a new era of email with OpenAI.
16 Mar 2024
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and outside of the U.S. and that much of the modern web isn't usable for people…
15 Mar 2024
You may have noticed iPhones don't exactly look the same… A lot has changed internally, User Interface (UI) components look far different than they used to. The code to create these views has evolved, and as a result, so have the UI components themselves. Swift, Apple's programming language for creating native iOS apps, has used UIKit as its framework for…
Acquisition to create a full-service bank payment provider that will accelerate the execution of GoCardless’ strategy
14 Mar 2024
Combining PubNub Events & Actions and IFTTT to create a SMS Notification System.
In this post by Nelson Vides, explore the practical applications of Erlang's gen_statem behaviour, as discussed in his recent FOSDEM conference talk. The post gen_statem Unveiled appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Learn how to speed up your development time by utilizing LLMs such as GPT-4
A deep dive into payments digitization, payments modernization and rapid evolution in the fraud, risk and compliance decisioning landscape.
13 Mar 2024
It's GDC time: PubNub gets to showcase all of the ways we’re helping game devs build online games. We’ve also got one huge announcement!
Healthify collaborates with OpenAI to improve millions of lives with sustainable weight loss.
We have partnered with international news organizations Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news content to ChatGPT.
Easy implementation of mobile push notifications in your Android app using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and PubNub real-time global network
12 Mar 2024
Scaling iOS at Bumble: Part 3/3 — Results and Developer Quality of Life Recap This is the third and final post in a series on our 2022 & 23 build and project management overhaul. We investigated whether one (or none!) of Swift Package Manager (SPM), Tuist or Bazel would be the tool to overcome our project scaling challenges. In the…
One annoyance I had with my external USB hard drives is that they weren't sleeping when idle which makes them noisy. We can't have that! My first port of call was hdparm and its -S parameter: sudo hdparm -S 60 /dev/sdb However this didn't help. Fortunately, I found hd-idle which worked! After installing, you need to edit /etc/default/hd-idle and change…
Introduction: With online privacy changing rapidly, the upcoming end of third-party cookies has led to many changes in digital platforms. Recently, MakeMyTrip encountered a significant challenge with Google’s impending restrictions on 3P cookies. In this article, we’ll explore how we identified these issues within our platforms and detail the innovative solutions we implemented to maintain operational excellence. Third-party cookie: A…
Marriott has rapidly deployed Cisco DNS-layer security across thousands of properties to advance human rights by limiting access to CSAM materials. The post Marriott Leads the Way in the Fight to Protect Children Online appeared first on Cisco Umbrella.
Empower your players with User-Generated Content (UGC) to boost creativity, build community, and extend your game's lifespan through custom content!
Customize your map icons using the latest version of MapTiler's Customize tool. Edit the icons color, size and other attributes or upload your own svgs or sprites to use on the map.
Three warning signs costs could bottleneck growth
Why multi-cloud rationalization matters
11 Mar 2024
Python Data Science Day is a full day of 25 min and 5 min community contributed content March 14th, 2024 streaming on the VS Code YouTube channel. The post Data Science Day 2024 – Schedule Announcement appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But today’s release is more open and more challenging than before, and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements that we’ve ever seen. The…