Month: February 2026

In modern cloud environments, databases are no longer silent back-end components instead they are active participants in every critical business transaction. As organizations scale globally, the challenge is no longer storing data, but understanding how that data is accessed, changed, and protected in real time. This is where a Database Activity Stream Pipeline becomes essential. … Read more

The biggest breakthrough enabling mass AI adoption last year was reliable function and tool calling. At the start of 2025, major releases – like Claude tools – triggered excitement and panic on social media. They made it easy to optimize basic routine tasks. But the real question is: why did this suddenly work? I recently … Read more

LLMs excel at handling ambiguity and long-tail edge cases, but for well-defined, high-risk tasks, deterministic code remains cheaper, more reliable, and easier to maintain—especially in production.

Large iOS apps break down without strict modular boundaries. This article shows how splitting features into Interface, Implementation, and Tests with Swift Package Manager dramatically reduces build times, simplifies refactoring, and keeps dependencies under control—without over-modularizing the codebase.

How ShareChat engineers rebuilt a low-latency ML feature store on ScyllaDB after an initial scalability failure — and what they learned along the way The demand for low-latency machine learning feature stores is higher than ever, but actually implementing one at scale remains a challenge. That became clear when ShareChat engineers Ivan Burmistrov and Andrei … Read more

In the fast-evolving hospitality landscape of 2026, a new specialist is quietly driving outsized results: the Sales IT Data Analyst. This hybrid professional bridges sales strategy, robust IT infrastructure, and advanced data analytics to optimize revenue streams across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and event venues. Unlike traditional revenue managers or general data analysts, these experts specialize … Read more

The path to a European residency and a more diversified portfolio is attracting a growing wave of U.S. citizens to Portugal’s Golden Visa investment funds. For American investors, the opportunity seems compelling: residency rights in Portugal, visa-free access to the Schengen zone, and exposure to promising sectors within a stable EU economy. Yet, this journey … Read more

Instagram exposes activity but hides sequence. Following lists refresh, reorder, and quietly blur timing. People notice movement yet struggle to place it in time, which turns observation into interpretation. That gap matters because timing changes meaning. A follow from yesterday carries a different weight than one from months ago, but the interface rarely helps you … Read more

Systems don’t fail because they are poorly written; they fail because they cannot keep up with the complex and ever-changing needs of a business. When speaking with Ignacio Brasca, who is a staff software engineer with several years of experience building complex data systems, he emphasized that software behaves much like a biological system—and that … Read more