Quality Engineering

Security and Bias Issues When Testing with LLMs

Introduction: As software development teams start exploring Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) for test and development work, resulting productivity boosts have generated quite a bit of excitement. From authoring unit tests to code diff summarization and supporting exploratory test work, LLMs are becoming useful assets for the QA toolbox. This new technology comes […]

August 28, 2025

DevOps

Migrating to the Cloud? Here’s Why 9 Out of 10 Clients Stick with TO THE NEW for DevOps

Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing […]

August 28, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Understanding WebRTC: What It Is and What It Isn’t

Introduction WebRTC is the native real-time audio, and video plus low-latency data exchange stack of the web that offers peer-to-peer enabled communication with built-in NAT traversal, encryption support as well as adaptive transport selection. It opens up browser APIs for media capture, secure connection establishment, and streaming audio/video/data between peers by use of RTCPeerConnection, MediaStream […]

August 27, 2025

DevOps

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Secret Manager with GKE and CSI Driver

Introduction  Management of sensitive information such as API keys, credentials and configuration secrets are an important part of developing safe and reliable Skylands applications. In Google Cloud Ecosystem, Secret Manager provides a centralized and safe way to save, access and manage these secrets.When running applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including Secret Manager guarantees that […]

August 27, 2025

DevOps

From Raw Logs to Structured Data: Working with Datadog Log Pipelines

Introduction Logs coming from different services often follow inconsistent formats, naming conventions, and structures. This makes it difficult to search, analyze, and correlate events across your systems. Datadog Log Management solves this challenge with Pipelines, Processors, and Standard Attributes, which let you extract key fields, normalize attributes, and enrich log data at scale. In this […]

August 26, 2025

DevOps

Stop Paying Extra: How We Helped an Ad-Tech Company Cut AWS RDS Costs by Upgrading from MySQL 5.7

Introduction If you’re still running MySQL 5.7 on Amazon RDS, it’s time to act. AWS started charging for Extended Support in March 2024. By mid-2025, that charge is no longer theoretical, and paying for it is kind of unacceptable. You’re likely already paying for it, and the cost will double by the end of this […]

August 26, 2025

Quality Engineering

AI-Powered Test Automation with Playwright MCP: Smarter, Faster, Resilient

Introduction Automated test cases—once seen as the key to efficiency—often turn into challenges of their own. For newcomers, writing that first test can feel overwhelming: learning frameworks, setting up locators, handling waits, and structuring assertions. For experienced teams, the bigger struggle is maintenance—UI changes, shifting requirements, and fragile scripts. Flaky tests only add to the […]

August 26, 2025

JS

React Compiler Deep Dive – Understanding the New Automatic Memoization

In React, performance often comes down to avoiding unnecessary re-renders. Too many re-renders can slow down your app and make it feel less responsive. Until now, below methods used  to avoid re-renders : React.memo to wrap components useMemo and useCallback to memoizing values and functions These tools work but they also add extra code, boilerplate, […]

August 25, 2025

JS

Optimizing Cold Starts in a Node.js Lambda: What the Docs Don’t Tell You

If you’ve ever worked on AWS Lambda, you will know that one word that buzzes every developer is – cold start. It’s like Thanos, an inevitable tax that you pay when Lambda spins up a fresh execution environment to handle a request. In Node.js, while the AWS documentation covers the basics (provisioned concurrency, minimizing package […]

August 25, 2025