Understand how CDN works Today, we will be discussing content delivery networks (CDNs). A CDN is a distributed network of edge servers that facilitates the delivery of web content to users across the globe. Traditionally, most companies rely on a single origin server and scale it horizontally to support their…

Transferring files via streaming endpoints — By reading this piece, you will learn to setup your own gRPC client and server for file uploading/downloading in Python. For your information, gRPC is known as Remote Procedure Call, a modern open-source to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services. At its core, it comes with the…

Find out if you should use SAST in your project In 2017, The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released a report on the Top 10 most critical web application and API security risks faced by the developers worldwide. For your information, OWASP is a … non-profit organization that aims…

Identify security bugs in your Java code In this piece, you will learn to carry out SAST (static application security testing) in your Java application using SpotBugs. SAST is essential in tackling the following problems: source code vulnerabilities late diagnosis of problems lack of root-cause analysis SpotBugs is an open-source…

Level up your testing game with pytest — Testing is an important aspect of the software development lifecycle. Long gone are the days when software was 100% manually tested. Most companies are leveraging automation tools as part of the testing lifecycle. …

Explore the concept of sequence parallelism and selective activation re-computation — With the advancement of artificial intelligence, it is now possible to train large language models for natural language processing tasks. Typically, a large language model contains more than 100 billion parameters and is trained using advanced algorithms on a large corpus. Large language models (LLM) are very effective and able…

Using sentence-transformer for symmetric semantic search — The topic for today is about calculating the similarity score between two sentences of the same or different languages. We will be utilizing the sentence-transformer framework which comes with its own pre-trained multilingual transformer models. We can make use of these models to compute the text embedding for more than…

Moving doesn’t always have to be hard — After reading this piece, you will learn to package your Docker images and deploy them on other machines locally. The process for copying a Docker image can be confusing for most developers as Docker comes with different commands for saving/loading and exporting/importing. These commands are not the same and cannot…

Simple phonemization of words and texts in many languages — By reading this piece, you will learn how to convert an input text string to its corresponding phonemes in Python. A phoneme represents the smallest unit of sound in a language. For example, the word tab consists of three phonemes: /t/ /a/ /b/ The element b is distinguishable when compared…