Articles for category: Software (Tech & Development)

March 14, 2025

Recently, I delivered a lecture to my colleagues on event sourcing, and I realized that this introductory information could be valuable to a broader audience. This article is useful for those interested in the concept of event sourcing and who want to decide if it’s a good fit for their projects while avoiding common pitfalls. So, let’s dive in. Event sourcing is an approach where, instead of storing the current state of the system, all changes are saved as events, which become the main data source. The approach gained popularity around 2005 after Martin Fowler’s article on the topic. The

March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)

Mar 14, 2025: 10 AI updates from the past week – Google releases Gemma 3, OpenAI launches Responses API, Boomi AI Studio now available, and more

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share 10 notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Google announces Gemma 3 Gemma 3 is Google’s latest AI model, offering improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities. It can handle context windows of up to 128k tokens, understand 140 languages, and comes in four sizes: 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B. It is a multimodal model, and

March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)

The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

I teach a lot of international students about the US education system and our schools. Whenever they go into our schools for the first time, one of the things that always shocks them is the school car pickup traffic lines. These lines are ugly, annoying, dirty, and they have become a common mainstay in American schooling. Parents across the country must waste much of their mornings and afternoons in these lines. These lines are so pervasive that an entire subculture has sprung up around them. Mommy bloggers even swap book suggestions to help pass the time. Parents often hate having

March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)

Entering AI Autumn: Why LLMs Are Nearing Their Limit

There’s no question that AI is everywhere, with new use cases emerging almost daily, but the endless buzz obscures a far more complex reality. We are entering an AI paradox: although excitement for these new technologies has never been higher, large language models (LLMs) are hitting their limits and are only seeing marginal improvements. This has sparked debate among AI insiders as to whether these tools are “hitting a wall” or if such concerns are overblown. What’s clear is that, at this stage, simply training LLMs with more data will no longer yield breakthrough improvements. So, is AI winter upon

March 14, 2025

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What we learned at TDX 2025

Last week, we were on-site in San Francisco at Trailblazer DX, the developer conference of cloud colossus Salesforce. TDX 2025 was all about the future of AI agents and agentic AI’s potential to reimagine software development and the developer experience. If you’re new to the topic or could use a refresher, AI agents are AI systems that use machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NPL) to understand and respond to users without human oversight or intervention. They are self-learning, capable of teaching themselves to improve. The promise of AI agents is that they free organizations to focus on the

March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)

Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials

Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25291 + CVE-2025-25292) were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. Attackers who are in possession of a single valid signature that was created with the key used to validate SAML responses or assertions of the targeted organization can use it to construct SAML assertions themselves and are in turn able to log in as any user. In other words, it could be used for an account takeover attack. Users of ruby-saml should update to version 1.18.0. References to libraries making use of ruby-saml (such as omniauth-saml) need also be updated to a version that reference

March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)

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March 14, 2025

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Software (Tech & Development)