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Understanding the Role of APIs in Web Development

As the complexities of web development have increased and more businesses are looking to leverage their online presence, Application Programming Interfaces have become a commonly used tool. An API acts as an intermediary between different software applications, allowing developers to streamline processes and increase efficiency when building websites. This blog post will discuss how they can help you advance your projects with ease.

3 reasons why OTA updates are important [Part II]

Devices are everywhere but they all need maintenance. Maintaining household gadgets such as laptops, printers and smart watches has become easier over the years as update technology evolves. Today, users do not have to even think about updates – they can seamlessly take place in the background or overnight. These updates take place over-the-air (OTA) and have revolutionised the way that we keep hardware, software or firmware maintained.

7 Ways to Prevent Network Security Breaches in the Workplace

Network security breaches are every business’s nightmare. A security breach could be anything from password attacks with further unauthorized system access to data leakage. Whether it is a small start-up or a large enterprise with millions of dollars in turnover, a single network security breach can be detrimental to the reputation of any company, not to mention the financial losses incurred. According to the 2021 Thales Data Threat Report, 45% of US companies suffered a data breach in 2020.

Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 is now available

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced today the general availability of Charmed Kubeflow 1.7. Charmed Kubeflow is an open-source, end-to-end MLOps platform that can run on any cloud, including hybrid cloud or multi-cloud scenarios. This latest release offers the ability to run serverless machine learning workloads and perform model serving, regardless of the framework that professionals use.

Upgrade Your IoT/OT Tech Stack: Replace Legacy Data Historians with InfluxDB

Manufacturing and industrial organizations are firmly in the era of Industry 4.0. The third wave of industrial revolution, which saw the introduction of computers, robots, and automation in industrial processes, has given way to instrumentation, and the use of advanced technologies, like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), using both raw and trained data, to enhance industrial processes.

ChatGPT praise and trepidation - cyber defense in the age of AI

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, so much so that we are all left guessing how far this will go. And it’s not a trivial question, as it relates to the future of humanity itself. On one extreme, technology is increasing rapidly enough to synthesize some of the most fundamental parts of our existence—communicating naturally with one another. That can be a scary thought.

Streaming conversion of Apache Kafka topics from JSON to Avro with Apache Flink

Pushing data in JSON format to an Apache Kafka topic is very common. However, dealing with messages not having a predefined structure can create some problems, specifically when trying to sink the data via connectors, like the JDBC sink, which require the knowledge of the message structure. Transforming the messages from JSON to AVRO can enforce a schema on messages and allow the usage of a bigger variety of connectors.