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The architectural foundation of your product is what plays a critical role in your startup’s ability to scale, adapt, and, of course, thrive in a competitive market. Early design decisions need to support your long-term business goals while allowing your product to evolve as the business grows. But planning too far ahead can backfire. It … Read more

I had the opportunity to upgrade a product discovery process for designing and testing new ideas in two companies—different in some ways, yet similar in others. I’d like to share this experience, focusing on the strategies and tools we used to address various business goals and adapt to the teams’ structures and maturity levels in … Read more

Software as a Service (SaaS) is the epitome of how businesses and people access software applications. This guide reviews the concept of SaaS, how it works in practice as well as its pros and cons when compared to traditional software delivery methods like IaaS or PaaS. We will discuss SaaS and how it is changing … Read more

:::tip AI-powered hyper-personalization can deliver value to customers by crunching data at enormous capacity and anticipating the customer’s journey with precision. ::: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into customer experience (CX) strategies is transforming the way businesses interact with consumers. Customer expectations have never been higher. Let’s see how Hyper-Personalization helps in meeting those … Read more

Back in 2013 I set out to build a minimalist set of tools for developing web applications. Perhaps the best thing that came out of that process was gotoB, a client-side, pure JS frontend framework written in 2k lines of code. I was motivated to write this article after going into a rabbit hole of … Read more

Building a facial recognition application with JavaScript might seem like a daunting task, but it’s more accessible than you might think. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the journey of developing a facial recognition app from scratch using JavaScript. We’ll explore the key libraries and tools that made this project possible, delve into … Read more

Pavel Durov was detained at Paris Le Bourget airport while leaving his private jet. The price of TON cryptocurrency fell from $6.74 to $5.64 (more than 15%) amid news of Durov’s arrest. Together with Durov there was a girl and his bodyguard. He flew to France from Azerbaijan. The French television channel TF1 reported from … Read more

Intro OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and an active CNCF project that provides a vendor-neutral and tool-agnostic way to collect observability signals across your heterogeneous system. In this blog post series, we will dig into two big questions: how OpenTelemetry instrumentation works on the application side taking Python’s SDK as an example. We will touch … Read more

Software updates are essential for keeping systems running and patching known vulnerabilities, so how can they lead to cyberattacks? Surprisingly, there are several ways attackers, insider threats, or even end users can turn an innocuous fix into a cyber threat. What are the risks of updating? More importantly, how can people protect their data and … Read more

:::tip HackerNoon editorial team has launched this interview series with women in tech to celebrate their achievements and share their struggles. We need more women in technology, and by sharing stories, we can encourage many girls to follow their dreams. Share your story today! ::: Tell us about yourself! I am Aditi Godbole—a Senior Data … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Expanding Design Exploration: Exploring Feature Spaces Beyond Parametric Boundaries By @tomascbzn [ 6 Min … Read more

Hey there! I have been for a long time in dApps developement and I know on my own how it is difficult to get started with blockchain APIs. Especially with their endpoints. I decided to gather the most important endpoints for Ethereum, Binance, Bitcoin, Ploygon, and Solana blockchains in this article. I tried to be … Read more

Virtualization has been a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure for decades, but the rise of cloud-native technologies and containerization has exposed limitations in traditional virtualization approaches. IT teams find themselves juggling separate management tools and workflows for virtual machines (VMs) and containers, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity. OpenShift, with its integrated virtualization capabilities powered … Read more

In mobile technology, the need for efficient data processing and retrieval has become increasingly critical. As mobile apps grow in complexity, incorporating advanced AI and machine learning features, vector databases have emerged as essential tools for managing and querying large-scale data. These databases represent information as vectors in a high-dimensional space, typically using anywhere from … Read more

In Scrum teams, discussions, and disagreements regarding titles and accountabilities are common. For instance, there are often debates about whether Product Owners are too tactical and not strategic enough like Product Managers, if senior engineers should be distinguished from junior engineers instead of both being referred to as “Developers,” or if Scrum Masters should be … Read more

HTTPS has become a standard for a reliable web presence. In most cases, HTTPS websites are preferred in Google rankings and are generally perceived as secure (and therefore trusted) by users. That’s why you need to ensure that all HTTP traffic coming to your servers is redirected to HTTPS, so you can continue to enjoy … Read more

n n If the purpose is to understand how the brain works, where in the brain is physicalism? Or, where in the brain is dualism? What part of the brain is materialism? How has the philosophy of mind defined the human mind, exactly for components within the cranium? n n There would have been eras … Read more

I previously wrote about the modern data lake reference architecture, addressing the challenges in every enterprise — more data, aging Hadoop tooling (specifically HDFS) and greater demands for RESTful APIs (S3) and performance — but I want to fill in some gaps.  The modern data lake, sometimes referred to as a data lakehouse, is one-half … Read more

“Art is not a thing; it is a doing.” – Paul Klee Today, the world of NFTs, which is a huge kingdom of its own, has taken the art arena by storm. Believe it or not, these digital assets that represent unique ownership of digital items have indeed skyrocketed in popularity as well as great … Read more

Cryptocurrency has been changing how we think about money for years, and now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making it even better. With the rise of AI-powered chatbots, called GPTs (Generative Pre-trained Transformers), cryptocurrency users have new tools to help them understand and make informed decisions on digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. These AI … Read more

In my quest to explore how A.I. can lend a hand in cybersecurity and development, I used Open AI to analyze and describe an open source project GenAIPot, a project that takes honeypots to the next level by using A.I. to generate its content. If you’re curious about how artificial intelligence can help make sense … Read more

In this age, we generate an enormous amount of data, which can be mind-boggling. According to IDC, humanity is projected to grow from “33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025.” The existence of the amount of data is both an opportunity and a big challenge for businesses. If we analyze this data, it … Read more

If there’s anything we don’t pay attention to at airports, it’s how airplanes move when they’re on the tarmac. We’re talking beyond the wheels, but the vehicles that help steer the planes in and out of their parking spots. While such a thing feels so rudimentary, it’s actually quickly evolving to become more sustainable, and … Read more

Sorting an array is a fundamental task in many programming languages. Java languages provide a diverse range of methods to achieve this. In this article, we will cover a variety of methods to sort arrays in Java, including the built-in methods and some custom implementations. By the end of this guide, you will have a … Read more

Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, infamously used AI to help generate a legal document sent to a federal judge. The AI used, Google’s Bard (now with a new name, Gemini), made up fake court cases. And that’s not even the worst of it. Two New York lawyers nearly torpedoed their careers by submitting a … Read more

Focus on results, not activity. Focus on navigation, not agility. Agile is facing reality. Concerns are being raised on how it’s led to “feature factories.” Elsewhere, going by job advertisements, organizations are looking to diversify out of the Agile whirlpool and are asking for experience with other methodologies — including waterfall! Agile and “agile”, have … Read more

Introduction The introduction of the new HTML <dialog> tag is a big change in how we make websites. It changes how we create and handle pop-up boxes in web applications. This article will look into what’s good about the <dialog> tag, what it can do, and how to use it, showing why it’s important for … Read more

Designing software tests is often seen as a routine task for quality assurance (QA) engineers. This process requires considerable time, from requirements testing to preparing test data, before the actual testing begins. Many QA specialists find this part of their job tedious and are eager to simplify it. Fortunately, there are several artificial intelligence assistants … Read more

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into mobile apps is becoming increasingly important as AI advances. LLMs can significantly enhance features like chatbots, language translation, and personalized content. However, deploying these models on Android comes with challenges, such as limited resources and processing power. This guide will walk you through how to effectively deploy LLMs on … Read more

The boundaries of design are constantly being pushed forward by the integration of cutting-edge technologies. As computational methods advance, designers are equipped with new tools that enhance their creative potential, allowing for unprecedented exploration of complex design spaces. One such innovative approach is Feature Space Exploration, a method that transcends traditional parametric design limitations by … Read more