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Media & Entertainment

Leanback Tweaks for a Better Android TV Experience

Introduction If you’ve ever used apps like Netflix or Prime Video on Android TV, you’ve probably noticed how smooth and professional they feel. Navigation is effortless, focus never feels random, and the UI gently guides your attention without you realising it. You don’t need a massive engineering team to get that level of polish. With […]

MSP

Beyond Configuration: Ansible’s Hidden Superpowers in Modern Enterprise Automation

Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, automation has transcended from being a “nice-to-have” to mission-critical infrastructure. While most organizations recognize Ansible as a powerful configuration management tool, its true potential lies in addressing complex, multi-dimensional challenges that traditional automation approaches often struggle with. This exploration uncovers Ansible’s lesser-known capabilities and presents innovative […]

Media & Entertainment

Building Smart TV Apps with Next.js: Why It’s More Efficient Than React.js

Introduction Smart TVs are now capable platforms for streaming OTT, VOD, and live content, not just screens for watching cable. Similar to mobile ecosystems, well-known companies like Samsung (Tizen OS), LG (webOS), and Hisense (Vidaa) offer app stores where developers can release apps. Selecting the appropriate framework is essential for developers. Because of its component-driven […]

DevOps

Centralized Compliance Logging on AWS with Fluentd: EC2 to S3 for SIEM Integration

Introduction Centralized log visibility across various systems is necessary and modern organizations must adhere to stringent compliance requirements. For audit and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) purposes a dependable log forwarding pipeline is necessary whether it is for monitoring authentication, events, system activity or security logs A robust open-source data collection tool called Fluentd […]

DevOps

Building the Backbone: Platform Guidelines for Scalable and Secure Gaming Systems

In today’s gaming and wagering ecosystem, the spotlight mainly comes on shining new features users receive, innovative gameplay, or seamless user experiences.Yet, backstage, platform engineering teams work hard to ensure everything runs smoothly & securely, and can scale in very short time. While development and the product teams remains ahead with new ideas, it is […]

DevOps

Streamline Your CI/CD: Jenkins + Nexus NPM Registry (With and Without Docker)

Introduction Keeping internal NPM packages safe during continuous integration and delivery is more important than ever, and a private registry such as Sonatype Nexus offers a simple, central way to do this. In the steps that follow, you’ll learn how to link Jenkins to a Nexus NPM feed, whether your builds run inside Docker or […]

React Native

Zustand In React Native

Introduction What is Zustand? Zustand is a powerful and lightweight state-management library for React and React Native—it’s designed to be fast, minimal, and easy to use. It uses a central store with hooks-based API, eliminating boilerplate while supporting middleware, persistence, and more. Key Benefits Minimal boilerplate — no actions, reducers, or providers needed. High performance — components subscribe […]

DevOps

Upgrading the Terraform AWS Provider: Painful, But Worth It

Introduction If you’re using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider “aws” {  region = “us-west-2” } And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use a newer module… and Terraform throws a special error: Error: unsupported argument […]

Project Management

The role of the Scrum master in a team

Ever launched your OTT app and everything just worked? No bugs, no delays — just seamless streaming. Behind that seamless experience is someone you hardly even notice: the Scrum Master. They’re not coding or designing, but they’re the ones who make it all happen. They listen when things are jumbled, get the tech, product, content, […]

Media & Entertainment

Apple TV Focus Engine: Step-by-Step Guide for Developers

As an Apple TV developer, I have a major challenge to work with Focus Engine. So basically, Focus engine is used to navigate or redirect your focus to one to another. The Focus Engine works seamlessly with Siri Remote actions such as up, down, left, and right. The main challenge, however, lies in navigating focus […]

Python

Building Your First LangGraph Agent: A Beginner’s Guide to AI-Powered Candidate Shortlisting

Using LangGraph to Create an AI Agent- Beginner Guide Are you ready to create an AI agent effectively? In this post, we’ll use LangGraph, a robust framework for developing stateful, multi-step AI applications, to develop a basic candidate shortlisting agent that will demonstrate multiple LangGraph features. What is LangGraph? LangGraph, built on Langchain, is a […]

Ajmal Hasan
Ajmal Hasan
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Media & Entertainment

Smart TV Ad Playback Made Easy: VMAP Parsing, No IMA Required

Introduction If you’ve ever tried integrating Google IMA (Interactive Media Ads) into your smart TV video experience, you have probably hit a few roadblocks. While IMA works like a charm on web and mobile, it’s a different beast altogether when it comes to smart TVs. Let’s talk about why that is, and explore a more […]

Vivek Kumar
Vivek Kumar
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