Month: December 2025

Brazil’s largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco, has advised its clients to consider allocating up to 3% of their portfolios to Bitcoin. The recommendation was made by Itau Asset Management, the bank’s investment division. In a recent report outlining investment strategies for the coming year, the bank states that holding a small portion of Bitcoin can … Read more

Modern backend systems are increasingly asked to do more than serve requests. They ingest continuous streams of events, process historical data at scale, recompute results when business logic changes, and remain correct in the presence of partial failures. For engineers coming from a REST API background, this shift often feels unintuitive: the tools, abstractions, and … Read more

Are you planning, developing, or already deploying an AI system to make your processes more efficient? At whatever stage of the AI lifecycle your company is, aligning with the right ISO standards can significantly improve its responsibility, compliance, and robustness. In this article, I’ll suggest four key ISO standards for AI developers and deployers. ISO … Read more

The interface of the future isn’t a keyboard. It isn’t even a touchscreen. It’s a conversation. For the last year, OpenAI’s Realtime API has been the king of the hill for developers building voice agents. It was magic, but it was expensive magic. Latency was “okay,” pricing was “premium,” and the ecosystem was a walled … Read more

For decades, software development has been a game of precise, step-by-step instructions. We write the logic, define the loops, and handle the errors. But in 2025, we are witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift: Agentic Programming. This transition moves the developer from a “writer of code” to an “orchestrator of intent“. Instead of telling a computer … Read more

Marc Andreessen is not someone you “reach” easily. He operates at a layer of the ecosystem where nearly everything arrives filtered, summarized, or discarded before it’s ever seen. So when I noticed that one of my messages had been read, the point wasn’t the reply — it was the realization that something had managed to … Read more

Following the article “SeaTunnel CDC Under the Hood: Snapshots, Backfills, and Why Your Checkpoints Time Out”, which detailed the implementation mechanisms and principles of the Apache SeaTunnel CDC Source, this article will continue to explore the underlying technical logic of Apache SeaTunnel CDC by explaining the relationship between Debezium and Apache SeaTunnel. To summarize their … Read more

Recently, while using SeaTunnel CDC to synchronize real-time data from Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server to other relational databases, I spent time reading and modifying the source code of SeaTunnel and Debezium. Through this process, I gained an initial understanding of how the SeaTunnel CDC Source is implemented. While everything was still fresh, I decided … Read more

In aviation, “breaking things” is not an option. If a server crashes, you restart it. If a jet engine fails mid-flight, the consequences are catastrophic. This is why the aviation industry is shifting from Preventive Maintenance (replacing parts on a schedule whether they need it or not) to Predictive Maintenance (PdM) (replacing parts exactly before they break). For Data … Read more

“It works on my machine” is the most expensive sentence in software engineering. We’ve all been there. Your Node.js app runs perfectly in your local environment. You commit the Dockerfile, push to CI, and go to lunch. Two hours later, the production cluster is on fire. The logs are screaming about “Permission Denied,” the memory usage … Read more