Users notice slow requests; even if 99 % finish quickly, that 1 % “long‑tail” latency can make your app feel sluggish. Request hedging solves this by speculatively firing a second duplicate after a short delay, racing to beat out outliers before they ever impact the UI. Why the slowest 1 % of requests matter The time it takes […]
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AI in Medical Device Software: From Concept to Compliance
Whether you’re building embedded software for next-gen diagnostics, modernizing lab systems, or scaling user-facing platforms, the pressure to innovate is universal, and AI is becoming a key differentiator. When embedded into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), AI offers a path to reduce costs, accelerate timelines, and equip the enterprise to scale with confidence. But AI […]
C# + GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022
What is GitHub Copilot? GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered programming assistant that assists developers by generating code based on their comments and existing code. Now natively integrated into Visual Studio 2022, it supports multiple languages, including C#. Steps to Set Up GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 Prerequisites Visual Studio 2022 – Version 17.10 or later .NET […]
State Management in React and Next.js: Redux vs Recoil vs Zustand
State management is a crucial aspect of building scalable and maintainable front-end applications. In React and Next.js projects, developers often face challenges in choosing the right tool for managing the application state. This blog explores three popular state management libraries: Redux, Recoil, and Zustand, comparing their strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases in both React and Next.js applications. Why State Management Matters React’s […]
How to Track User Interactions in React with a Custom Event Logger
In today’s data-driven world, understanding how users interact with your application is no longer optional , it’s essential. Every scroll, click, and form submission tells a story, a story about what your users care about, what they ignore, and where they might be facing friction. This is where event tracking and analytics come into play. Traditionally, developers and product […]
Understanding Next.js Caching Mechanism
Next.js’s caching mechanism tends to be quite complicated. It may cause some bugs in your code that can be tough to track down and resolve. This article tries to thoroughly explain the various components of Next.js’s caching system, enabling readers to utilize it effectively and harness its significant performance benefits. Caching stores data temporarily to […]
Optimize Sitecore Docker Instance: Increase Memory Limits
Running a Sitecore Docker instance is a game-changer for developers. It streamlines deployments, accelerates local setup, and ensures consistency across environments. However, performance can suffer – even on high-end laptops – if Docker resources aren’t properly optimized, especially after a hardware upgrade. I recently faced this exact issue. My Sitecore XP0 instance, running on Docker, became […]
Lessons from the Front: Configurable Workflow Rules for New Items in XM Cloud
Intro 📖 In this post I’d like to share a workflow “attacher” implementation I built on a recent Sitecore XM Cloud project. The solution attaches workflows to new items based on a configurable list of template and path rules. It was fun to build and ended up involving a couple Sitecore development mechanisms I hadn’t […]
Tool‑Augmented RAG Chatbot: GPT‑4, pgVector & Next.js
This is Part 3 of a three-part series (links at the bottom). In Part Two, we moved from concept to execution by building the foundation of a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) system. We set up a Postgres database with pgvector, defined a schema, wrote a script to embed and chunk text, and validated vector search with cosine similarity. In […]
Why Databricks SQL Serverless is not PCI-DSS compliant
Databricks supports a wide range of compliance standards to meet the needs of highly regulated industries, including: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) FedRAMP High & Moderate DoD IL5 IRAP (Australia) GDPR (EU) CCPA (California) However, I was surprised to read that Databricks Serverless workloads are not covered for PCI-DSS (Databricks PCI […]
AI in Sitecore: How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Modern Digital Experiences
The world of digital experiences is evolving more quickly than ever before, and let’s be honest, artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a trendy term these days. It’s becoming a business necessity. AI is no longer a “nice to have” for companies that use Sitecore as their Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It’s turning into […]
WCAG Compliance for Drupal Sites with UserWay
As a Drupal developer with over four years of experience, I’ve worked on numerous projects where accessibility was a priority. Ensuring websites are accessible to people with disabilities is not only a best practice but also often a legal requirement. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a framework for achieving this, and tools like […]