Java/JVM

The Developer’s Cursor Checklist: Secure and Smart Practices for Using Cursor AI

Introduction AI tools like Cursor are powerful, but with power comes the need to be extra cautious. If you’re using Cursor in your workflow, make sure you follow these key security and best practices. A few smart checks now can save you from big headaches later. Before you import any codebase into Cursor, please take […]

May 29, 2025

DevOps

Modern Terraform Practices: Removing Resources Safely from State

Introduction and Usecase There are times when we want Terraform to stop managing a resource, but don’t want to delete it from the infrastructure. In this brief blog, I’m going to discuss removing resources from Terraform configuration files while keeping them in real infrastructure. But why would you want to do this in the first […]

May 29, 2025

DevOps

Modernizing Enterprise Security: How Microsoft Sentinel Powers Proactive Threat Defense

Introduction As cyber threats grow in sophistication, businesses require a powerful solution to detect, analyze, and address security incidents efficiently. Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform, empowers organizations to strengthen their security framework while simplifying operations. In this blog, we will explore Azure […]

May 29, 2025

HealthTech

How SMART on FHIR Rescued Us from EHR Integration Hell

When we initially embarked on integrating our healthcare app with 17 disparate health systems, we didn’t merely have a technical problem—we entered a war zone of fatigued IT staff and cynical clinicians who had been burned by one too many “seamless integrations.” Maria, an IT director at one of our partner hospitals, didn’t sugarcoat it: […]

May 28, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Image optimization in Roku

Displaying posters is a very common feature in OTT applications. Images & icons are used to display the thumbnails of movies, shows, content, user profiles etc. These images are mostly loaded from the internet and that’s actually tricky. Downloading images from the internet doesn’t offer you the control over image sizes. That’s why sometimes you […]

May 28, 2025

MSP

From overspending to optimized, take control of your AWS costs today

Introduction Cost optimization is a process of reducing expenses while maintaining or improving the quality of products or services, aiming to improve profitability and efficiency by identifying and eliminating unnecessary spending.   What is AWS Cost Optimization AWS cost optimization is the practice of finding ways to reduce your AWS spending while maintaining or improving […]

May 27, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Video Analytics in OTT: Unlocking Performance with KPIs

Introduction A Video Analytics Tool is capable of analyzing video data and providing insights, feedback, or actions based on a set of criteria. It gives deep insight into the behavior of the viewer, performance of the content, and technical quality of experience (QoE) so that the OTT provider can make data-driven decisions to optimize their […]

May 26, 2025

Data Engineering

Using AI to build my first Android app: What worked and what didn’t

Initial Thoughts Having spent over a decade working in software development and data engineering, I thought, where is AI right now? Is it capable of eliminating the developer or is there still some time? So, I challenged myself with building an Android app. That was an unfamiliar area for me. While it intrigued me, there […]

May 25, 2025

JS

Signals: The new Reactivity model taking over frameworks

Introduction For years, JavaScript frameworks have followed a predictable pattern for managing UI updates: maintain state, detect changes, and trigger re-renders. React popularized this approach with useState, useEffect, and the virtual DOM. But what if we could update our UI without triggering a full component re-render? Enter Signals — a new, fine-grained reactivity model that’s […]

May 23, 2025