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January 12, 2026

Database Evolution: From Traditional RDBMS to AI-Native and Quantum-Ready Systems

The database landscape is going through the biggest shift since the NoSQL movement of the 2010s. Two forces are reshaping everything: artificial intelligence and quantum computing. AI workloads demand...

Hackernoon
December 19, 2025

Quantum Security Governance: Building a Framework for the Post-Quantum World

Quantum security is about creating a structured approach to managing cryptographic risk in an environment where the threat landscape is evolving faster than our ability to respond. Unlike post-quantum...

VMacWrites
November 18, 2025

Reflecting on My 2025 Journey: A Year of Innovation, Learning, and Technical Excellence

Last updated: 18th December 2025 As I reflect on 2025, I’m filled with immense gratitude and excitement for what has been one of the most productive years in my technical writing journey. This year ha...

Hackernoon
November 04, 2025

Beyond Data: The Rising Need for AI Security

Data Security has long been the cornerstone of enterprise cybersecurity strategies. But as artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in business operations, a new discipline emerges: AI Security...

Dev.to
November 03, 2025

Finding Today's Changed Files: A Quick Python Script for File Uploads

My friend recently asked me for help with a common problem: they needed to upload files to a remote server, but didn't want to upload everything—just the files that had changed today. Manually checkin...

Hackernoon
October 06, 2025

Understanding HSTS: The Backbone of Modern Web Security

HSTS is a web security policy mechanism that helps protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. Introduced in 2012 as RFC 6797, HSTS has become a critical component of mod...

Medium
August 08, 2025

Resolving Secrets Manager DNS Resolution Errors in Terraform and Pulumi IaC

To understand Pulumi and its components, refer to this introductionI love Terraform and as a curious explorer, I started looking for an alternative when Terraform introduced HCL2. An IaC alternative w...

Dev.to
August 08, 2025

Resolving Secrets Manager DNS Resolution Errors in Terraform and Pulumi IaC

I love Terraform and as a curious explorer, I started looking for an alternative when Terraform introduced HCL2. An IaC alternative where I can use the programming language of my choice for declarativ...

Hackernoon
June 13, 2025

Troubleshooting SSL: Why Your SSL Certificate Isn't Working on Windows

SSL certificates are stored in various file formats, each with its own structure and purpose. PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) is the most common format for SSL certificates. DER (Distinguished Encoding Ru...

Medium
May 12, 2025

The Essential Role of Process Monitoring Scripts in Linux Environments

In today’s complex computing environments, keeping tabs on running processes isn’t just good practice — it’s absolutely critical. Whether you’re managing a fleet of Linux servers, maintaining developm...

Dev.to
May 12, 2025

The Essential Role of Process Monitoring Scripts in Linux Environments

In today’s complex computing environments, keeping tabs on running processes isn’t just good practice — it’s absolutely critical. Whether you’re managing a fleet of Linux servers, maintaining developm...

Dev.to
May 04, 2025

Podman: Detailed Overview, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Setup

Podman is an open-source container engine that enables users to create, manage, and run OCI containers and pods across Linux, macOS, and Windows. Unlike Docker, Podman is daemonless, running container...

Medium
March 05, 2025

S3cmd: CLI for Object Storage

In the recent times, I am exploring and playing with Top Tools for Object Storage and Data Management. In this journey, one of the tools that I was introduced to was s3cmd.What is s3cmd?S3cmd is a pow...

Dev.to
March 05, 2025

S3cmd: CLI for Object Storage

In the recent times, I am exploring and playing with Top Tools for Object Storage and Data Management. In this journey, one of the tools that I was introduced to was s3cmd. What is s3cmd? S3...

Medium
January 06, 2025

An Introduction to SymPy: A Python Library for Symbolic Mathematics

SymPy is an open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics.SymPy — Mathematics Python LibrarySymPy aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code simple, exte...

Dev.to
January 06, 2025

An Introduction to SymPy: A Python Library for Symbolic Mathematics

SymPy is an open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics. SymPy — Mathematics Python Library SymPy aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code simple, ...

Medium
January 01, 2025

Pandas: Conversion using loc and iloc

Pandas is a powerful Python library used for data manipulation and analysis.Created by Wes McKinney in 2008, it provides data structures and functions for working with structured data efficiently. Pan...

Dev.to
January 01, 2025

Pandas: Conversion using loc and iloc

Pandas is a powerful Python library used for data manipulation and analysis. Created by Wes McKinney in 2008, it provides data structures and functions for working with structured data efficiently. P...

VMacWrites
December 08, 2024

Reflecting on My 2024 Journey: Achievements and Growth

In 2024, I celebrated significant professional achievements, including prestigious certifications and awards while engaging deeply in community initiatives. My passion for technology spurred contribut...

Dev.to
December 08, 2024

Reflecting on My 2024 Journey: Achievements and Growth

As I think on 2024, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude and excitement for the incredible journey I’ve experienced. This year has been a remarkable chapter in my professional and personal growth. I have ac...

Medium
December 07, 2024

Nvidia MIG with GPU Optimization in Kubernetes

Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) is a technology that allows partitioning of a single GPU into multiple smaller, isolated GPU instances. This feature enables better GPU utilization, especially for workloads t...

Medium
December 01, 2024

Model Context Protocol Overview

Anthropic has introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard designed to simplify and standardize connections between AI models and external data sources. This protocol aims to s...

Dev.to
December 01, 2024

Nurturing the Developer Within: A Journey of Growth and Community

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, keeping the developer inside you alive is not just a choice—it's a necessity. As we navigate through our careers, it's easy to get caught up in the day-to...

Dev.to
November 20, 2024

IceCream: A Sweet Alternative to Print Debugging in Python

Tired of cluttering your code with print statements for debugging? Enter IceCream, a Python library that makes debugging effortless and more readable. Let's explore how IceCream can sweeten your debug...

Medium
November 18, 2024

Chain of Trust: Decoding SSL Certificate Security Architecture

This article is part of a 3-part article series covering beginners to advanced SSL security architecture. Please refer to the further reading section in the last to check the follow-up articles.The ch...

Medium
August 07, 2024

Understanding Linux Permissions

Linux file permissions are a cornerstone of system security and access control. They dictate who can read, write, or execute files and directories on a Linux system. Mastering these permissions is ess...

Hackernoon
July 23, 2024

Shingling in the Generative AI Era

In the Generative AI era, there is a need for techniques from detecting plagiarism (intentional or unintentional) to content duplication. By using techniques like shingling, generative AI can uncover ...

Medium
June 12, 2024

Ansible: No python interpreters found for host

The error message “[WARNING]: No python interpreters found for host (tried [‘python3.12’, ‘python3.11’, ‘python3.10’, ‘python3.9’, ‘python3.8’, ‘python3.7’, ‘/usr/bin/python3’, ‘python3’])” indicates ...

Hackernoon
May 24, 2024

How to Deploy RAPIDs on GPU-Enabled Private Cloud

Learn how to set up a GPU-enabled virtual server instance (VSI) on a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and deploy RAPIDS using IBM Schematics. By leveraging RAPids, an open-source suite of data science libr...

Hackernoon
May 23, 2024

Design and Deploy a Completely Private and Secured Networking Architecture on Cloud Using Automation

In today's cloud world, security has taken precedence over resiliency and high availability. With the introduction of Virtual Private Cloud, network security has become even more critical. In this art...

VMacWrites
December 16, 2023

2023: A year in retrospective

I enjoy interacting with people and sharing my thoughts through my blogs. This year, it’s no different. I learnt new technologies. I explored interesting tools. I had a lot of conversations with colle...

VMacWrites
July 01, 2023

Ansible code snippets for automation

I have been learning and writing Ansible for Cloud automation. Created this code repository to share my Ansible automation learnings as snippets. As I explore and learn Ansible, I will be adding the s...

VMacWrites
November 09, 2020

Adjust the speaking rate

Stackoverflow is an ocean for learning and exploring. How? Try answering a question and you will understand 🙂  A few weeks ago, I saw this question on StackOverflow –  How to adjust the speaking rate ...

VMacWrites
April 09, 2020

Container to container communication with bridge network

In this post, you will learn how to establish container to container communication by creating a bridge network. The back story Currently, I am working on a sample code that includes a frontend (web) ...

VMacWrites
April 05, 2019

Container registry unauthorized: authentication required

IBM Cloud container registry(ICR) imagepull fails on IBM Cloud Kubernetes(IKS) cluster with Unauthorized: authentication required error. Here’s what you did You have pushed an image to IBM Cloud conta...

VMacWrites
February 06, 2019

Istio on Windows 10

In this post, you will learn how to setup Istioctl on Windows 10 to run Istio service mesh commands on your command prompt(CMD). Before jumping into the setup steps, let’s recap What is Istio? Cloud p...

VMacWrites
November 05, 2018

Create a presigned URL to download an object in Python 3.x

Presigned URLs in Cloud Object Storage create a temporary link that can be used to share an object publicly for direct download. In one of my serverless(IBM Cloud Functions) proof of concepts, I had a...

VMacWrites
October 09, 2018

Install Knative with Istio on IBM Cloud

This post provides you step-by-step instructions to install Knative with Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service(IKS), build and push your image to IBM Cloud Container Registry and deploy the app. Befor...

Last updated: February 14, 2026 at 01:49 AM