The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

Agentic applications—AI systems empowered to take autonomous actions by calling external tools—are the current rage in software development. They promise efficiency, convenience, and reduced human ...

A multi-round investigation agent for Akamai WAF (SIEM) and CDN (DataStream 2) logs, stored in TrafficPeak (a managed data platform with a ClickHouse-compatible interface), that turns natural-language ...

SQM (Structured Query Model) is a Java framework for representing SQL as a typed immutable model and running end-to-end SQL pipelines. It supports parse, validate, transform/rewrite, render, serialize ...

I’ve always believed that computers should work for us, not the other way around. This was until I found myself spending countless hours on mindless tasks. This was until I started using artificial ...

Round out the HTMX and Bun web stack by adding Pug, a popular JavaScript templating engine that makes DOM interactions a snap. In the first half of this article, we set up a web development stack and ...

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