AI can lead to major enterprise advancements and productivity gains. By offering new capabilities, they open up opportunities for enhancing customer engagement, content creation, process automation, and more. According to McKinsey & Company, generative Al has the potential to deliver an additional $200-340B in value for the banking industry. One…
Horizontal Partitioning vs Vertical Partitioning You’re dealing with a database that’s growing faster than you expected. Queries are taking longer, and you’re starting to worry about performance issues. We get it—slow queries can be a nightmare, especially when you’re responsible for keeping everything running smoothly. You’ve heard about partitioning as…
Shard Key Basics Explained A shard key is a field or combination of fields that determines the distribution of data across shards in a sharded database cluster. It acts as a guide for the database to partition data, ensuring even distribution for optimal performance and scalability. By using a shard…
What is Graph Traversal and Its Algorithms You’ve probably heard the term “graph traversal” thrown around in computer science discussions. It might sound complex, but it’s a fundamental concept that’s worth understanding. Whether you’re a developer or just curious about how algorithms work, grasping graph traversal can open up a…
Text Size 100%: － ＋ New Release: Oracle Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) 24.2.1 Blog post briefly describing some of the new features in Oracle Transction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) 24.2.1. It's also the final post in my series on Where is the Complexity by introducing a new feature in…
Product recommendation using RAG on Dgraph In this blog post, we will use Dgraph database to store retail products information (Amazon products data) and Language Models to reply to users asking for a product recommendation. The blog post provides Python code snippets to explain the main steps. The complete Jupyter…
The compliance and regulatory landscape is evolving and complicated, and the burden on developers to maintain compliance is not often acknowledged in articles about maintaining SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, NIS 2, EU 14028, etc. Docker’s products aim to put power into the developer’s hands to maintain compliance with these…
Hey everyone, Ben here… 👋 Today, I want to talk about some changes we're making to our pricing model at Directus. But before we dive in, I want to share a bit about the journey that led us here. For years, we've been on a mission to provide a premium,…
In today’s cyber threat landscape, almost everyone is one bad day away from a security incident. While not every incident becomes a data breach, security teams need to be prepared for anything. Just like that one friend who has a spreadsheet to help them organize the minute tasks associated with…
Gerard van Engelen is a seasoned DevOps engineer who ensures the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This approach helps in delivering value, ensuring that products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities. Ansible is popular with system administrators…