MCP Security Basics: Risks and Protections for AI Agents
MCP Security Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Protecting AI Agents and Their Tools
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OpenAI's New Agents API: What It Is?
OpenAI's New Agents API: What It Is, What It Isn't, and When Not To Use It
Elasticsearch Using High RAM but Showing Low Heap Usage
High RAM but low heap usage in Elasticsearch isn't a memory leak. It's the OS filesystem cache at work. Here's how to verify it and when to worry.
AstaBrief: an open, fast model for cited scientific reports
A small open-weights model, trained on real researcher questions, now writes grounded literature reports in about a third of the time of a proprietary pipeline, and anyone can download it and run it themselves.
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agent
How to turn an AI agent's failures in your own systems into validated, targeted training tasks, and keep improving as the model gets better.
How to Deploy a Spring Boot JAR as a Linux Service on Ubuntu
Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot JAR on Ubuntu as a systemd service, configure automatic startup and restarts, and monitor application logs with journalctl.
Agent-Native Databases Explained
Agent-Native Databases Explained: Isolation, Latency, and Scale
Web Development
ETags and If-Match for Safe HTTP Updates
API versioning protects the JSON shape. ETags and If-Match protect the row. How to stop two clients from silently overwriting each other.
Liquid AI DSpark: Make Vision AI Models Run Up to 3x Faster
Liquid AI has introduced DSpark, a new companion model to their vision-language model LFM2.5-VL-3B. It’s built to accomplish one thing well: speed up AI replies without compromising any accuracy. In this Blog , we’ll show you exactly what it does, why it matters and how you can actually run it yourself – on both Windows and Mac.
Running Nominatim with Docker and PostGIS
A hands-on guide to self-hosting geocoding with Nominatim, Docker, and PostGIS — covering setup, imports, spatial queries, and the RAM/storage trade-offs to plan for before you start.
SQL Execution Order Explained (With a Real Query Example)
SQL doesn't run in the order you write it. This post walks through the real logical execution order — FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, SELECT, ORDER BY, LIMIT — using one worked query example, and explains the WHERE-vs-HAVING mistake it fixes for good.
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA urges organizations to prioritize exploited vulnerabilities, apply risk-based updates investigate compromises, and nominate missing KEV entries using evidence.
Location Search with Spring Boot and Elasticsearch
How to design a location search API in Spring Boot and Elasticsearch, from coordinate checks to geo-distance queries and distance sorting.
How to Design API Versioning Without Breaking Clients
API versioning is less about /v1 vs /v2 and more about contracts. Here’s a practical approach that keeps old clients working while you ship new features.