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In October 2025, I visited Devoxx Belgium, and again it was an awesome event! I learned a lot and received quite a lot of information, which I do not want to withhold from you. In this blog, you can find my takeaways of Devoxx Belgium 2025! Introduction Devoxx Belgium is the largest Java conference in

The digital ecosystem breathes through trust. Every npm install, every pip install, every docker pull represents a leap of faith — a developer placing confidence in code written by strangers, maintained by volunteers, distributed through systems they’ve never seen. This trust, however, has become the Achilles’ heel of modern software development. Supply chain attacks don’t

Abstract This article explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity. It delves into innovative strategies such as adaptive cyber deception and predictive behavioral analysis, which are reshaping defense mechanisms against cyber threats. The integration of AI in zero-trust architectures, quantum cryptography, and automation within cybersecurity frameworks highlights a

The Edge Observability Security Challenge  Deploying an open-source observability solution to distributed retail edge locations creates a fundamental security challenge. With thousands of locations processing sensitive data like payments and customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), every telemetry component running on the edge becomes a potential entry point for attackers. Edge environments operate in spaces where there is

OpenAI released ChatGPT apps just a couple of days ago. Such apps are incredibly interesting from a UX perspective, because sometimes a chat user interface simply won’t cut it. Sometimes, you simply need a graphical user interface. For such cases, there are “ChatGPT apps.” So, what is a ChatGPT app? Well, it’s a fully functional

The Challenge The cost of maintaining a system capable of processing tens of thousands of near-simultaneous requests, but which spends greater than 90 percent of its time in an idle state, cannot be justified. Containerization promised the ability to scale workloads on demand, which includes scaling down when demand is low. Maintaining many pods among

It all started while I was working with a colleague on web security. I heard that their team is enabling HSTS as part of their Black Friday security upgrades to their website. The first question that popped into my mind is, why do you require HSTS if there is HTTP/2 and HTTP/3? You can read

This paper outlines a practical approach to secure software engineering that brings together: Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST & DAST) Information Security Risk Assessment (ISRA) Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Continuous Vulnerability Management Measuring Security Confidence (MSC) framework OWASP Top 10 secure coding standards It also examines how regulations like the General Data Protection

Kilo is an open-source project for creating and consuming RESTful and REST-like web services in Java. Among other things, it includes the Collections and Optionals classes, which are designed to help simplify code that depends on collection types and optional values, respectively. Both are discussed in more detail below. Collections Kilo’s Collections class provides a

Artificial intelligence has become the centerpiece of every digital strategy. What began as isolated proof-of-concepts running on data scientists’ laptops is now expected to scale across clouds, business units, and continents. Enterprises quickly discover that the challenge is not building AI models. It’s operationalizing them sustainably.