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African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.

Data privacy regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, and HIPAA demand that organizations know exactly where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) lives inside their databases. Yet in practice, most teams rely on manual inventories, tribal knowledge, or external scanning tools that require data to leave the database engine — a process that itself creates privacy and security risks. This article presents an MVP that takes a different approach: it runs PII detection inside InterSystems IRIS using ...

I think a lot of people still imagine AI coding as opening ChatGPT, asking for code, and copy-pasting the result. That's not really how I work anymore. The biggest shift for me is that planning matters far more than coding. Earlier, execution was expensive, so most of the effort went into writing code. Now execution is cheap. I can have an agent implement something in minutes. The hard part is making sure the plan is correct. Most of my effort goes into thinking through the architecture...

In Java, sorting is an important operation when working with collections such as ArrayList, LinkedList, and other data structures. For primitive data types, Java already knows how to sort values. However, for custom objects like Student, Employee, or Product, Java needs instructions on how objects should be compared. To achieve this, Java provides two interfaces: Comparable – Used for natural sorting. Comparator – Used for custom sorting. Comparable Interface Comparable is an i...

When I started building , I needed reliable access to Instagram data. Like many developers, my first instinct was to use a self-hosted solution such as instagrapi. It worked for experimenting, but once I started depending on it for production workflows, I spent more time maintaining the scraper than building features. Eventually I switched to HikerAPI, a hosted REST API for Instagram. This post isn't about saying one approach is universally better—it's about why it ended up being the bette...

This article presents a straightforward approach to automatically and efficiently tune hyperparameters for machine learning models using Optuna as the optimisation framework. We explore how to use both Optuna’s native storage options and InterSystems IRIS as a database backend to track the progress of hyperparameter searches. We also show how MLflow can be used to monitor experiments and manage models through its tracking and model registry UI. This article is based on this Kaggle Notebook ,...

I started building AI agents about two years ago. Not toy demos, actual production features inside a health-tech product. And every single project started the same way. Write the tool-calling wrapper. Handle the edge cases in structured output. Figure out how the agent should read a PDF without hallucinating page numbers. Build the retry logic. Wire up the logging. Same boilerplate. Every time. From scratch. The frustrating part is that every developer building agents is doing this too....

Every time I handed my Aadhaar card to someone for KYC, one thought kept nagging me: Where is this data actually going? Most "digital Aadhaar verification" tools out there silently upload your card details to their servers. You have zero visibility into what gets logged, stored, or sold. For something as sensitive as a national biometric ID, that's a pretty terrible default. So I built AadhaarQRCodeReader — a web app that scans the Secure QR on any Aadhaar card, decodes all th...

Here is a problem I hit building a long-running agent: I needed to inject a new instruction partway through a session ("the project is Go, write Go") but editing the top-level system prompt to add it invalidated my entire prompt cache. Every cached turn got reprocessed at full price. The fix is a feature that landed in the current Claude models: mid-conversation system messages. Here is what it is and when to use it. The setup that breaks A long agent session has a large, stable ...

I have done this process wrong more times than I would like to admit. You call the references the vendor sends you. Three customers, all happy, all articulate, all saying roughly the same things. You hang up feeling good. You sign. Six months later you are dealing with a support team that responds every 72 hours and a renewal quote that is 40% higher than year one. The reference check told you nothing useful. Not because the customers lied. Because you asked the wrong questions. Here is...

TL;DR Provider invoices aggregate by model and billing period. They cannot tell you which team, product, or agent caused a cost spike. Request-level AI cost attribution links every API call to structured owner metadata (team, product, environment, trace ID) so investigations take minutes, not days. Three approaches exist: provider dashboard, gateway log enrichment, and application trace attribution. They differ sharply in setup cost and query granularity. Gateway log enrichment is th...

Last year my side project was running on AWS. A t3.small EC2 instance, an RDS PostgreSQL db.t3.micro, an S3 bucket, and a CloudFront distribution. Total bill: $47/month for an app with 200 daily users. Then someone on Reddit told me to look at Hetzner. I now run the same stack on a single CAX21 (4 vCPU ARM, 8GB RAM, 80GB SSD) for €5.49/month. Here's exactly what happened. The Migration What I was running on AWS: Node.js API (Express) PostgreSQL database Redis for sessions Nginx reverse...

I run a hosting company. I'm also a BCA student. These two things coexist somehow. GigaNodes started in 2022 as a game server hosting brand — Minecraft, FiveM, ARK, the usual. Over time it grew into a proper VPS and dedicated server operation under GigaNode Technologies Private Limited, with AMD EPYC 7C13 hardware co-located at Yotta DC Noida. Earlier this year we did something I haven't seen any other Indian hosting provider do: we deployed Cloudflare Magic Transit across our entire netwo...

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I explain how one long AI prompt for code review became a small responsibility-based workflow inside a single AI skill.

Created by DeverStyle, these LoRAs enable stylistic control over text-to-image generation without modifying the base model. The collection includes eight distinct style adapters: Teal Dark, Blueprint/Wireframe, Slay The Spire 2 (two variants), Cyanide and Happiness, Arcane, Devil May Cry, and Clothes Line concept.

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