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Secure Your AWS Lambdas with TypeScript

In the previous part of this series, we optimized our Lambda function. However, our API is open to the public — anyone with the URL can use it and get a response. In this take, we are going to secure our API using a tool called Amazon Cognito. This will only allow authenticated users access to our endpoints. Ready? Let’s go!

How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension

Ruby is a wonderful language, made for humans first and machines second. It is easy to read and write. There are plenty of ways to write anything, and you can often guess its standard library by typing the name of the method you would have chosen yourself. Because of this, Ruby's arguments are very flexible, which lets us express our APIs very clearly. But this comes with a drawback: Ruby is quite hard to parse for C extension developers!

What Is Helix Remote Administration (HRA)?

Often it can be difficult for smaller studios to focus on administrative tasks when key team members wear multiple hats and are constantly being pulled in different directions. That is why we developed Helix Remote Administration, which lets teams focus on their work while our experts set up, maintain, and optimize their Helix Core server.

10 CSS Selectors that will Boost your Coding Skills

CSS is very distinct from other web standards. Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS, is a design language employed to create web pages more elegantly designed. An element is selected and styled based on a selector. HTML elements can be styled using CSS selectors. With CSS selectors, you can choose several elements simultaneously. Implying them is valuable if you desire to assign the exact style to more than one HTML element since you won't require to write the exact code twice.

Testkube for your microservices woes

Enterprises have long relied on monolithic applications to run their operations and provide different functions and services to their customers. Monolithic software is designed to be self-contained; components of the program are interconnected and interdependent. If any program component requires an update, the whole application must be redeployed. As enterprises continue to grow their customer base, they will need to upgrade and scale their monolithic architecture.

How to Optimize Huggingface Models for Production

Deploying models is becoming easier every day, especially thanks to excellent tutorials like Transformers-Deploy. It talks about how to convert and optimize a Hugging face model and deploy it on the Nvidia Triton inference server. Nvidia Triton is an exceptionally fast and solid tool and should be very high on the list when searching for ways to deploy a model. If you haven’t read the blogpost yet, do it now first, I will be referencing it quite a bit in this blogpost.

Questions around Transparency in AI models with Tom Davenport

Often the question around bias is raised whenever the conversation turns to AI. Tom Davenport, author of “Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration” points out that bias is not limited to AI, but also finds root in many human decision-makers as well. Actually, according to Tom, the bigger threat is ignoring that working with AI is going to increasingly be a part of our human work experience.

Data Mesh and other Alternatives for Data Chiefs in 2023

Title: Data Mesh and other Alternatives for Data Chiefs in 2023 Description: The data world exploded in 2022 with a heated debate around data mesh. We had to talk to Tony Baer of DBinsights to get a better understanding of his perspective and criticism of data mesh. Most importantly, we needed to know what it is he recommends we use instead!

The Growing Need for Advanced Analytics to Fuel 5G and Edge Solutions

Organizations have been focused on enhancing customer experiences to enable quicker responses to services and to provide localized behavior for many years now. However, with the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Cities, Gaming technologies and Self-Driving Cars going more mainstream, there is an even greater need for organizations to react faster to customer behavior and bring solutions closer to the customers.