**Generative AI Showdown: VAEs vs Diffusers** In the ever-e

Generative AI Showdown: VAEs vs Diffusers In the ever-evolving landscape of generative AI, two approaches have emerged as the front-runners: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Diffusers. While both models have made groundbreaking strides in producing high-quality images, they tackle the problem from different angles, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) VAEs are a…

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How AI broke the DRY principle — and why that’s a good thing

“Don’t Repeat Yourself.”For years, this was sacred. Every software engineer has heard it drilled into their head like a mantra. If you duplicated code, you were either lazy, inexperienced, or on a deadline that should’ve been managed better.But then AI showed up.And suddenly, we’re watching an entire generation of developers intentionally repeating patterns, snippets, and…

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Athentication session & Application session

🧩 Big Picture There are two types of sessions in a web app: Authentication session (Cognito, tokens) Application session (DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) They interact, but they serve different layers of your application. 🔹 1️⃣ Authentication session — “Who is this user?” Managed by Amazon Cognito (or another identity provider). Exists to prove the user’s identity….

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From Zero to Production: Creating ReceiptFlow Pro in 10 Hours Using AI-Powered Development

The Challenge: From Paper to DigitalPicture this: It’s Ganpati festival season, and like many building communities, we were drowning in paperwork. Residents’ contributions were being recorded the old-fashioned way - pen, paper, and endless manual calculations. The inefficiency was staggering, and the paper waste was concerning. That’s when I decided to take on a challenge: Could I…

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AI-Powered Testing Tools and System Integration Testing (SIT): A Complete Guide for Modern QA Teams

The future of software quality assurance lies in intelligent automation — combining AI-powered testing tools with structured testing methodologies like System Integration Testing (SIT). While AI testing tools bring automation, speed, and predictive capabilities, SIT testing ensures all integrated systems communicate and perform flawlessly as one unit. In this guide, you’ll explore both — the…

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Understanding Database Normalization (1NF 2NF 3NF) with Oracle SQL — Step-by-Step Example

Database normalization is a crucial concept in DBMS that ensures data integrity and eliminates redundancy.In this article, I’ve explained 1NF, 2NF, and 3NF through a real-world example and demonstrated each step using Oracle Live SQL. 🧩 The Original Data StructureWe’ll begin with this unnormalized dataset, which contains redundant information: StudentID StudentName CourseID CourseName Instructor InstructorPhoneS01…

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