Wed, 14 May 2025

Cosmos DB Disaster Recovery: Multi-Region Write Pitfalls and How to Evade Them

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is an excellent global distributed, multi-model database service for high availability, low-latency access, and straightforward scalability. One of its...

Read More

Wed, 14 May 2025

Why Database Migrations Take Months and How to Speed Them Up

Today, where information is unequivocally the cornerstone of everything and a core competitive advantage, our databases often hold our data hostage.  It's 2025, yet it's not u...

Read More

Wed, 14 May 2025

MySQL to PostgreSQL Database Migration: A Practical Case Study

Migrating a MySQL database to PostgreSQL is a complex process that involves schema conversion, data transfer, query optimization, and performance tuning. In this case study, we doc...

Read More

Wed, 14 May 2025

A Simple, Convenience Package for the Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK

When using the Go SDK for the Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API, I often find myself writing boilerplate code for various operations. This includes database/container operations, querying,...

Read More

Wed, 14 May 2025

Performing and Managing Incremental Backups Using pg_basebackup in PostgreSQL 17

With the release of PostgreSQL 17, the introduction of incremental backups using the trusted pg_basebackup tool marks a significant leap forward in database backup and restoration...

Read More

Tue, 13 May 2025

Unmasking Entity-Based Data Masking: Best Practices 2025

Masking data to protect confidentiality has become a mandate more than ever before. As enterprises attempt to mitigate their workloads to multi-tenant cloud environments and data l...

Read More

Tue, 13 May 2025

5 Subtle Indicators Your Development Environment Is Under Siege

Think your organization is too small to be a target for threat actors? Think again. In 2025, attackers no longer distinguish between size or sector. Whether you’re a flashy tech gi...

Read More

Tue, 13 May 2025

DGS GraphQL and Spring Boot

Why GraphQL? GraphQL provides a powerful layer to unify data from various backend sources, including databases, REST APIs, and microservices, into a single, consistent API. It enab...

Read More

Mon, 12 May 2025

AI-Based Threat Detection in Cloud Security

Abstract This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is enhancing threat detection in cloud certificate environments. It explicates how dissimilar AI modeling, such as s...

Read More

Mon, 12 May 2025

Unlocking Data with Language: Real-World Applications of Text-to-SQL Interfaces

Introduction It has long been a difficult task to generate precise SQL queries from customers' natural language inquiries (text-to-SQL). Understanding user queries, appreciating th...

Read More

Mon, 12 May 2025

How Trustworthy Is Big Data?

Businesses and individual users now employ big data analysis to support decision-making, engineering innovation, and productivity levels. However, the surge in the reliance on big...

Read More

Mon, 12 May 2025

Automating Data Pipelines: Generating PySpark and SQL Jobs With LLMs in Cloudera

With the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), data engineers and analysts can now translate natural language directly into working PySpark or SQL jobs.  By...

Read More

Fri, 09 May 2025

Revolutionizing Financial Monitoring: Building a Team Dashboard With OpenObserve

After a particularly grueling Thursday spent troubleshooting a publish API outage last year, I remember turning to my colleague and saying, "There has to be a better way." Four yea...

Read More

Thu, 08 May 2025

Mastering Advanced Traffic Management in Multi-Cloud Kubernetes: Scaling With Multiple Istio Ingress Gateways

In my experience managing large-scale Kubernetes deployments across multi-cloud platforms, traffic control often becomes a critical bottleneck, especially when dealing with mixed w...

Read More

Thu, 08 May 2025

Cloud Cost Optimization for ML Workloads With NVIDIA DCGM

Introduction Running machine learning (ML) workloads in the cloud can become prohibitively expensive when teams overlook resource orchestration. Large-scale data ingestion, GPU-bas...

Read More

Thu, 08 May 2025

How to Configure and Customize the Go SDK for Azure Cosmos DB

The Go SDK for Azure Cosmos DB is built on top of the core Azure Go SDK package, which implements several patterns that are applied throughout the SDK. The core SDK is designed to...

Read More

Thu, 08 May 2025

Start Coding With Google Cloud Workstations

Google Cloud Workstations provide powerful, managed solutions for modern software development. By offering secure, consistent, and accessible cloud-based development environments,...

Read More

Wed, 07 May 2025

Building Enterprise-Ready Landing Zones: Beyond the Initial Setup

Introduction Cloud providers offer baseline landing zone frameworks, but successful implementation requires strategic customization tailored to an organization’s specific security,...

Read More

Wed, 07 May 2025

Event-Driven Architectures: Designing Scalable and Resilient Cloud Solutions

Event-driven architectures (EDA) have been a cornerstone in designing cloud systems that are future-proofed, scalable, resilient, and sustainable in nature. EDA is interested in ge...

Read More

Tue, 06 May 2025

Unlocking the Potential of Apache Iceberg: A Comprehensive Analysis

Apache Iceberg has emerged as a pioneering open table format,  revolutionising data management by addressing big challenges. In this article, we'll delve into Iceberg's capabi...

Read More