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The annual developer event is where Apple announces operating system updates—like iOS 27—and maybe even teases future hardware. Here’s how to see it all.

At some point, a monolith starts working against you. In my case, Finovara was a single Spring Boot application handling everything (authentication, transactions, limits, piggy banks, notifications, activity logs, currency conversion) The bigger it got, the harder it was to change anything without worrying about something else breaking. So I broke it apart. This post is about the first three pieces I extracted: the API Gateway , the activity-log-backend , and a shared module called contracts-backend . The Old Structure Everything lived in one Spring Boot app. The activity log — which tracks everything a user does in the app (expenses added, limits changed, logins, account changes) — was tangled up with the core business logic. Adding a new type of activity meant touching the same codebase responsible for transactions, security, and everything else. The New Structure finovara-backend/ ├── api-gateway/ ├── activity-log-backend/ ├── contracts-backend/ └── core-backend/ Four modules (there will be more). Each with a clear responsibility. API Gateway The gateway is the single entry point for every request coming from the frontend. It runs on port 8888 with SSL enabled and uses Spring Cloud Gateway (WebFlux-based). Routing is simple and declarative: routes : - id : activity-log-backend uri : ${ACTIVITY_LOG_URL} predicates : - Path=/api/account-activity/**,/api/archive-activities/** - id : notification-backend uri : ${NOTIFICATION_BACKEND_URL} predicates : - Path=/api/notification-settings/** - id : core-backend uri : ${CORE_BACKEND_URL} predicates : - Path=/** Activity log routes go to activity-log-backend . Notification routes go to notification-backend . Everything else falls through to core-backend . The gateway also handles CORS centrally — https://localhost:5173 is the only allowed origin, with credentials support. No individual service needs to worry about CORS anymore. One thing worth noting: the gateway uses use-insecure-trust-manager: true for the HTTP client. Th

At some point, a monolith starts working against you. In my case, Finovara was a single Spring Boot application handling everything (authentication, transactions, limits, piggy banks, notifications, activity logs, currency conversion) The bigger it got, the harder it was to change anything without worrying about something else breaking. So I broke it apart. This post is about the first three pieces I extracted: the API Gateway , the activity-log-backend , and a shared module called contracts-backend . The Old Structure Everything lived in one Spring Boot app. The activity log — which tracks everything a user does in the app (expenses added, limits changed, logins, account changes) — was tangled up with the core business logic. Adding a new type of activity meant touching the same codebase responsible for transactions, security, and everything else. The New Structure finovara-backend/ ├── api-gateway/ ├── activity-log-backend/ ├── contracts-backend/ └── core-backend/ Four modules (there will be more). Each with a clear responsibility. API Gateway The gateway is the single entry point for every request coming from the frontend. It runs on port 8888 with SSL enabled and uses Spring Cloud Gateway (WebFlux-based). Routing is simple and declarative: routes : - id : activity-log-backend uri : ${ACTIVITY_LOG_URL} predicates : - Path=/api/account-activity/**,/api/archive-activities/** - id : notification-backend uri : ${NOTIFICATION_BACKEND_URL} predicates : - Path=/api/notification-settings/** - id : core-backend uri : ${CORE_BACKEND_URL} predicates : - Path=/** Activity log routes go to activity-log-backend . Notification routes go to notification-backend . Everything else falls through to core-backend . The gateway also handles CORS centrally — https://localhost:5173 is the only allowed origin, with credentials support. No individual service needs to worry about CORS anymore. One thing worth noting: the gateway uses use-insecure-trust-manager: true for the HTTP client. Th

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A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird. Some are infuriating.

The Logitech G512 X 98 lets you swap between mechanical and analog switches in an attempt to achieve the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, its solution isn't as well thought-out as I'd hoped.

The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase) Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I used to think I was doing TDD right. I’d write a test, watch it fail, then write just enough code to make it green. Rinse and repeat. Sounds textbook, right? But a few months ago I spent an entire afternoon chasing a bug that only showed up after I refactored a service class. The tests were all passing, yet the app was throwing NullReferenceExceptions in production. I was shocked. How could everything be green and still be broken? Turns out I was testing the inside of my code instead of what it actually did for the outside world. That realization hit me like a truck, and it completely changed how I approach TDD. The Insight Test behavior, not implementation. If your test is coupled to private fields, internal data structures, or the exact way a method accomplishes its goal, you’re not testing what matters—you’re testing how you happen to do it today. When you later refactor to improve performance, swap out a dependency, or even just rename a variable, those tests start failing for no good reason. You end up spending more time fixing tests than delivering value, and you lose confidence in the suite because it feels fragile. The payoff? A test suite that gives you confidence when you change code, not anxiety. You can refactor fearlessly because the tests only care about the contract: given these inputs, the system should produce these outputs or side‑effects . How (with code) Let’s look at a tiny but realistic example: a PasswordValidator service that checks whether a user‑chosen password meets our policy. ❌ The mistake: testing implementation details // PasswordValidator.cs public class PasswordValidator { private readonly IRegexProvider _regex ; // injected for testability public PasswordValidator ( IRegexProvider regex ) { _regex = regex ; } public bool IsValid ( string password ) { // implementation we might want to change later return _regex . IsMa

Netflix has shared details about Service Topology. This internal system creates and updates a live dependency graph for thousands of microservices. It helps engineers see how services connect and resolve issues more quickly. The system merges three separate data sources into a single, queryable graph. It updates almost in real-time as traffic patterns shift. By Claudio Masolo

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Over the past few months I’ve been building VoiceIntego, an AI voice agent that answers calls and books appointments for service businesses (dental clinics, HVAC, plumbing). Here are some of the technical lessons that surprised me along the way. Latency is the whole game With text chatbots, a 2-second delay is fine. On a phone call, anything over ~800ms feels broken — people start talking over the AI. The hard part isn’t the LLM response; it’s the round trip: speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech, all streaming. You have to stream every stage and start TTS before the full response is generated. Interruptions break naive pipelines Real callers interrupt. “Actually, can we do Tuesday instead—” mid-sentence. A simple request/response loop can’t handle this. You need barge-in detection: monitor the incoming audio stream and cancel the current TTS playback the moment the caller starts speaking again. Booking logic needs guardrails, not vibes Letting the LLM “decide” availability is a recipe for double-bookings. The reliable pattern: the LLM extracts intent (date, time, service), then deterministic code checks the actual calendar API and confirms. The model handles language; your code handles truth. Confirmation loops matter more than you’d think Always read the booking back: “So that’s a cleaning on Tuesday the 9th at 2pm — correct?” Phone audio is noisy and names/times get misheard constantly. One extra confirmation turn cuts errors dramatically. Phone numbers and edge cases everywhere Voicemail detection, callers who mumble, background noise, people who say “yeah” to mean no. The happy path is maybe 20% of the work. If you’re building something in this space, happy to compare notes. You can see what I’m working on at VoiceIntego .

An “urban explorer” tells WIRED their mother checked in to make sure they weren’t one of the people seen scurrying out of a manhole with their friends.

Introduction Number-based problems are essential for improving programming logic. Using Python's while loop, we can solve different types of problems involving divisibility, counting, and special numbers. This article demonstrates step-by-step solutions using simple logic and structured code. Basic Practice 1. Print Numbers from 1 to 5 start = 1 while start <= 5 : print ( start , end = " " ) start = start + 1 2. Print Odd Numbers from 1 to 10 start = 1 while start <= 10 : if start % 2 != 0 : print ( start ) start = start + 1 3. Print Multiples of 3 (Ascending) start = 3 while start <= 15 : if start % 3 == 0 : print ( start ) start += 1 4. Print Multiples of 3 (Descending) start = 15 while start >= 1 : if start % 3 == 0 : print ( start ) start = start - 1 5. Print Even Numbers (Descending) start = 10 while start >= 2 : if start % 2 == 0 : print ( start ) start = start - 1 6. Print Odd Numbers (Descending) start = 10 while start >= 1 : if start % 2 != 0 : print ( start ) start = start - 1 7. Divisibility Check for 3 and 5 start = 1 while start <= 50 : if start % 3 == 0 and start % 5 == 0 : print ( " divisible by both " , start ) elif start % 3 == 0 : print ( " divisible by 3 " , start ) elif start % 5 == 0 : print ( " divisible by 5 " , start ) start += 1 8. Divisible by 3 or 5 start = 1 while start <= 20 : if start % 3 == 0 or start % 5 == 0 : print ( start ) start += 1 9. Finding Divisors of a Number num = 12 i = 1 while i <= num : if num % i == 0 : print ( i ) i += 1 10. Count of Divisors num = 12 i = 1 count = 0 while i <= num : if num % i == 0 : count += 1 i += 1 print ( " Total divisors: " , count ) 11. Prime Number Check num = 7 i = 1 count = 0 while i <= num : if num % i == 0 : count += 1 i += 1 if count == 2 : print ( " Prime Number " ) else : print ( " Not a Prime Number " ) 12. Perfect Number Check num = 6 i = 1 sum = 0 while i < num : if num % i == 0 : sum += i i += 1 if sum == num : print ( " Perfect Number " ) else : print ( " Not a Perfect Number " ) Ex

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AWS disclosed that Resilient Network Graphs, a flat network architecture based on quasi-random graph theory, is now the default for most new data center builds. The design replaces fat-tree hierarchies with direct ToR-to-ToR mesh connections using passive optical ShuffleBoxes, cutting routers by 69%, boosting throughput by 33%, and reducing network power consumption by 40%. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Plex has come a long way from being just a personal media server. Over the past few years, it has transformed into a streaming hub, today featuring ad-supported content and movie rental options. Now, the company is setting its sights on competing with social networking platforms like Reddit and Letterboxd: on Wednesday, Plex unveiled several […]

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