Month: February 2026

In the Symfony ecosystem, Doctrine is the de facto standard for database interaction. However, developers often hit a crossroads: should I use Doctrine’s object-oriented Query Language (DQL) or drop down to raw, Native SQL This article explores both approaches using Symfony 7.4 and PHP 8.4+. We will build real-world examples to demonstrate performance, maintainability and developer … Read more

The intersection of AI agents, blockchain, and everyday finance is no longer a distant vision—it’s happening now, and fast. From agentic commerce that hides complex rails behind simple conversations, to trust stacks built on permission, proof, and verifiable receipts, the industry is shifting toward AI as the true interface for financial decisions. Users want outcomes … Read more

The era of cloud-tethered computing is officially coming to an end. For the last three years, developers have been held hostage by API rate limits, exorbitant subscription costs, and the looming threat of closed-source data harvesting. Big Tech told us that local AI was a pipe dream. They claimed that running frontier models required server … Read more

There was no outage. No alerts. n No failed pipelines. Everything “worked.” But our BI environment was slowing down, getting expensive, impossible to budget for. Not because the warehouse was failing. Because the design was wrong. AI will expose that at scale. The Architecture That Punished Curiosity. For years, the default in modern BI orgs … Read more

Every other week, there’s a new wave of viral hype surrounding AI tools. This time around, it’s OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that can send messages, write emails, browse the web, and perform other tasks. Never mind its potential security vulnerabilities (there are many) and various predecessors that almost worked. The hype is real. … Read more