Modern AI systems are advancing at an accelerated pace, expanding in complexity, scale, and scope. Python dominates the field of AI engineering, primarily due to its low learning curve, extensive community support, and rich libraries that simplify complex tasks, such as data manipulation and model
Data security has become one of the paramount concerns for businesses, governments, and individuals in an increasingly digital world. As data proliferates across cloud infrastructures and shared environments, its privacy and security pose a strategic challenge. To address this, organizations generally depend on encryption at
Many modern systems (e.g., autonomous systems, cloud infrastructure, gaming devices, machine learning applications, and scientific computing systems) demand unprecedented levels of computing power, speed and efficiency. Unlike traditional software, which often relies on sequential processing, these systems are driven by the need for massively parallel
Dask is a Python framework for distributed and parallel computing. It offers low-level task APIs that extend the functionality of popular Python libraries and high-level data-centric APIs that serve modern workloads such as machine learning. In particular, Dask addresses the key limitations of two widely
Amazon Prime Video’s March 2023 announcement of migrating from distributed microservices to a monolith architecture surprised many in the global developer community, and reignited the Monolith versus Microservices debate. A varied range of analyses surfaced after that – some supported the move, some inferred that
Built on top of Apache Lucene and first released in 2010, Elasticsearch has become the de-facto search technology for most enterprise use cases today. In conjunction with Beats, Kibana & Logstash (cumulatively, the Elastic Stack), it offers a tremendous value proposition for storing, searching, and
The AI that your company buys (or builds) may not be as secure as you think! As companies across the globe accelerate AI adoption, the corresponding security threats also continue to increase rapidly. More importantly, the potential consequences of security threats are becoming more severe
In 2017, Mozilla and others in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a new browser-based technology to enable high-performance applications on web pages. Initially based on Mozilla’s asm.js, this technology has evolved into the WebAssembly (WASM) that we know today. Not only has it
Traditional processor architectures have inherent limitations in fulfilling the high-performance needs of modern applications. This necessitated the development of domain-specific architectures and hardware accelerators. After a decade of development, RISC-V is now evolving as the preferred instruction-set-architecture for a wide range of modern processing workloads,
Exponential technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) are creating significant breakthrough today. Lots of hype are woven around these technologies, huge investments are flowing into them, and new use cases are getting created on a regular basis. However, most organizations
Messaging systems form the backbone of many critical applications today. An important question for software architects and engineers is the selection of the right messaging system that can address multiple requirements like cross-platform communication, fault-tolerance, latency needs, and scalability. Several open-source and commercial messaging systems
The 12-Factor App Manifesto, released by Heroku in 2011, gradually became a gold standard in modern software development. While there are debates in some quarters today (and justifiably so) whether this manifesto represents the needs of modern SaaS applications, the fundamental philosophy of this approach
Modern software development is becoming more complex. The scope and scale of applications are becoming bigger, both in terms of functional and non-functional requirements. For instance, application teams want to release new innovations to their users at an accelerating pace, highly feature-rich user interfaces have
Low-code engineering is not always the first option when companies decide to build new applications. Many engineering leaders are only partly aware of the capabilities of these platforms, or like to stick to the technologies that they know best. However, unless the goal is to
Extraordinary threats create extraordinary opportunities. Research & Development programs offer a great mechanism to explore/exploit such opportunities, thus enabling significant long-term value creation. At the same time, R&D functions are usually among the first to get financially impacted when a crisis strikes. Navigating R&D organizations