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This text is a practical guide to performing basic operations in MongoDB, one of the most popular NoSQL databases for storing and managing data. It focuses on essential topics like CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete), customizing queries with sorting, pagination, and projections, and more advanced techniques such as the Aggregation Framework. In addition to … Read more

Today, I will guide you through the whole process of creating a custom AI model, which is able to recognize images. We are going to: Set up the environment Prepare some data for training the model Choose a pre-trained model for fine-tuning Adjust the configuration Train the model For our purposes, we will use Paddle … Read more

Aspect-oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that enables the modularization of concerns that cut across multiple types and objects. It provides additional behavior to existing code without modifying the code itself. More about AOP in Spring is here. AOP can solve many problems in a graceful way that is easy to maintain. One such … Read more

:::tip Oh hey. Now the REAL WORK begins. Just start writing :grinning: However, if you feel stuck, let us walk you through it. ::: 1. What do you currently do, and what’s your favorite part about it? I’m a QA Lead, and my favorite part is helping my colleagues grow (I know, it sounds a … Read more

Recently, I’ve been looking into Tricentis Tosca to better understand how its testing suite can benefit my app development workflow. In my last article about Tosca, I wrote about some of the tool’s visual capabilities, such as QR code testing. Testing QR codes is great if you need an effective way to validate that specific part … Read more

Most descriptions of AI agents and agentic systems focus on agents’ ability to act autonomously, without user intervention, in many situations across the agents’ intended use cases. Some agents operate with a human-in-the-loop model, engaging the user only when they encounter uncertainty, but still acting autonomously under typical and certain circumstances. With autonomy being the … Read more

When you develop generative AI applications, you typically introduce three additional components to your infrastructure: an embedder, an LLM, and a vector database. However, if you are using MariaDB, you don’t need to introduce an additional database along with its own SQL dialect — or even worse — its own proprietary API. Since MariaDB version … Read more