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Cloudflare recently introduced its Gen 13 servers, marking a shift in how its network handles traffic. Instead of relying on large CPU caches for speed, the company redesigned its software to leverage many more processor cores working in parallel in its latest AMD-based servers.
By Renato Losio
Yelp has completed a large-scale upgrade of its Apache Cassandra infrastructure, spanning more than 1,000 nodes, without any service downtime, offering a blueprint for managing stateful systems at scale.
By Craig Risi
Shuman Ghosemajumder explains how generative AI has transformed from a creative curiosity into a high-scale tool for disinformation and fraud. He shares insights on "Disinformation Automation," the fallacy of CAPTCHA in an AI world, and why engineering leaders must adopt zero-trust "cyber fusion" strategies to defend against automated attacks that mimic human behavior with chilling accuracy.
By Shuman Ghosemajumder
In this article, author Vignesh Durai discusses how agentic and multimodal AI systems can be engineered using Apache Camel and LangChain4j technologies. The key components in the solution include LLM-based reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and image classification.
By Vignesh Durai
HashiCorp has released Vault 2.0, moving to the IBM versioning and support model following its acquisition. The update introduces Workload Identity Federation for secret syncing without static credentials, SCIM 2.0 provisioning, and performance gains in the storage engine. It also prioritises identity-based security and certificate automation while removing legacy architectural components.
By Mark Silvester
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