Month: December 2025

This piece distills hands-on design lessons from building for markets where cash dominates, buying starts in WhatsApp, POIs replace addresses, and digital trust is fragile. It outlines how designers can map real user behavior, close trust gaps with secure checkout flows, and create interfaces that match the communication patterns of high-context cultures.

A call center facing heavy case volume built a Salesforce Experience Cloud self-service portal that automated case creation, routing, and acknowledgment. The result: fewer calls, faster intake, improved customer satisfaction, and a 20–60% uplift across key support metrics.

PHP 8.5 introduces quality-of-life improvements—pipe operators, safer URI parsing, NoDiscard warnings, cleaner cloning, array helpers, and better error output. This guide breaks down the most useful features and outlines a simple, reliable upgrade plan to avoid dependency-driven surprises.

This post guides you through architecting an AI-powered research automation system using a low-code approach. It shows you how to integrate n8n for workflow orchestration, Groq for high-speed LLM inference, and five different academic APIs to automatically query, analyze, and process research data, accelerating the entire R&D-to-publication cycle.

AI is scaling; organisations are not. Most failures blamed on models are really symptoms of a human OS built for 1998. Until decision-making, incentives, and ownership modernise, AI programs will keep rebooting.

Poor data quality is a massive hidden cost that silently sabotages expensive AI projects and drains company resources. The “1-10-100 Rule” proves that proactive prevention is exponentially cheaper than fixing failures downstream. The solution requires a systematic approach, starting with a data audit and establishing continuous data governance, which ultimately transforms data from a liability … Read more

In this era transformed by AI, questions about what is real and how to protect ourselves from the fake have never been more complex. Today, a single phone app can produce deepfakes in a matter of seconds, a process that once required powerful computers and lengthy processing times. Deepfakes are no longer limited to large … Read more

In the 1990s, developers wrote long functional specifications before coding. By 2010, agile replaced the idea that you should define everything up front. Today, as AI coding struggles with quality, the old playbook is returning: writing detailed specs in hopes of getting reliable outcomes. On paper, spec-driven development (SDD) feels like the perfect solution: write … Read more

In distributed systems architecture, the synchronization gap between external HTTP APIs and relational database targets represents a persistent engineering challenge—particularly when API responses lack native transactional semantics or expose non-normalized, deeply nested JSON payloads (comment threads, organizational hierarchies, multi-level BOM structures). CocoIndex’s Custom Source abstraction provides a declarative framework for converting arbitrary HTTP/gRPC endpoints into … Read more