Month: August 2025

What is EKS Auto Mode? EKS Auto Mode is a management enhancement for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) that simplifies the operational management of Kubernetes clusters and extends AWS’s control beyond the cluster itself. It automates the setup and management of the infrastructure required for running workloads, including compute, networking, storage, and scaling, while integrating … Read more

S3 storage has a way of getting messy and expensive faster than you expect. Amazon’s lifecycle rules promise an easy way to keep things tidy, but their one-size-fits-all, timer-based approach can backfire. One wrong setting, and a dataset you needed this morning is buried in deep storage, leaving your applications stuck and your team scrambling. … Read more

Modern automotive systems rely on complex Electronic Control Units (ECUs) to manage a range of functionalities. Ensuring the reliability and correctness of these systems requires robust testing strategies at the firmware level, especially for low-level drivers. This article explains how to build a Factory Test Code (FTC) framework to validate low-level software APIs in a … Read more

The Protective Umbrella We are taught that liability is something to avoid at any cost. You are allowed to sleep well at night knowing that if something unforeseen goes wrong, you are covered. This cosy feeling is certainly worth a few bucks a month. An entire industry exists to take that burden off our shoulders. … Read more

Go is well known for how it supports and models concurrency in its ecosystem. Providing constructs like Channels, WaitGroups and Goroutines to build concurrent programs. One thing that kept me intrigued was how this would work in a serverless system; in this case specifically AWS Lambdas. Your runtime is not long lived, lasts only as … Read more

Prologue My name is Alexey, and I’ve been building software for almost half of my life – around 14 years now. I’ve seen my share of hype cycles, panics, and so-called “revolutions.” And today, we’re facing a new one: LLMs, artificial intelligence, GPT, Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Midjourney, Claude… the list grows weekly. And let me … Read more

What happens when the law speaks without a speaker? In regulatory, clinical, and financial domains, language increasingly operates without referent and without subject. Documents that once required authorship and deliberation are now generated, compiled, or executed by systems that simulate neutrality. This paper asks: What is lost when legal grammar runs without judgment? The core claim: … Read more

In the world of movies, fewer statements ring truer than the iconic journalistic quote, “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword”. Movies themselves are proof of this quote, although some of them embody and reflect it in their plots. Whether as a subplot or the basis of the entire story, there is something satisfying about … Read more

Introduction: The Heartbeat of Your Content Strategy In the vast digital landscape, simply attracting visitors to your website is no longer enough. The true measure of content success lies in how deeply users engage with what you’ve created. Customer engagement metrics are the pulse of your online content, revealing whether your audience finds it valuable, … Read more

I’m sitting here, scrolling the news, reading yet another “blocked,” “restricted,” “forbidden.” Am I the only one annoyed by this? Our internet freedom is shrinking, turning what used to be a basic right—free communication—into a privilege. And messengers? They stopped being messengers long ago. Now, they’re just social networks in disguise. Remember when WhatsApp was … Read more

Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! This week, TypeScript 5.9 streamlines developer workflows with minimal configurations and deferred imports, ZhipuAI’s GLM 4.5 showcases incredible coding capabilities including building Space Invaders games, and Node.js 22.18 LTS solidifies production reliability while Node.js v24 pushes performance boundaries. Plus, we’ve got some … Read more

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the Thirtieth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! This week, Alibaba launched insane new video generation model, OpenAI transforms ChatGPT into an interactive tutor, and this Chinese open-source model is crushing all benchmarks With this, we’ll also explore some under-the-radar tools that can supercharge your development workflow. Alibaba’s New … Read more

Trust, Trace, Repeat: The One Rule That Makes AI Worth Listening To It begins, as most things now do, with a question. Not always a profound one. Sometimes it’s simply where to eat. What to say in an email. Whether the scan means anything. The machine answers—fast, certain, eerily polite. And in the silence that … Read more

Imagine if someone printed 1 million stickers, but every week, they took a few thousand and tossed them into a fire —permanently gone, never to be stuck anywhere. That’s basically what “token burning” means in the world of cryptocurrency. Since crypto tokens live on a digital ledger, when someone decides to “burn” some of them, … Read more