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SwiftUI PhotosPicker Tutorial: Let Users Pick a Photo #Shorts #swiftui #swiftuitutorial

SwiftUI PhotosPicker tutorial: how to let people choose a photo in SwiftUI with PhotosPicker from PhotosUI, load it with loadTransferable(type:), and handle and log the errors when loading fails. PhotosPicker opens the system photo picker. People choose a photo, and your app gets only the items they pick. This Short shows the whole flow in a real iPhone app in the iOS Simulator, with the exact code.

Best App Deployment Platforms in 2026: Which One to Pick for Your App #Shorts #appdeployment #coding

Best app deployment platforms in 2026: the right one depends on what you ship. Here is the short list by use case, with the free-tier changes that make older lists out of date. THE SHORT LIST Frontend apps: Vercel or Netlify. Every Git push gets its own preview link. Full-stack apps and APIs: Render or Railway, with databases next to your app. Mobile backend: Firebase, with auth, real-time data and hosting. Already on AWS or Google Cloud: AWS Amplify or Google Cloud Run. Static sites: GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Pages host them for free.

Nobody Wants Your New AI Agent #devops #aiagents #softwaredevelopment #techtrends #ai

DevOps customers are rejecting standalone AI agents and web interfaces in favor of integrating context directly into their existing harnesses, such as Copilot or Claude. Rather than logging into separate tools, developers prefer combining models and technologies within a single context window to streamline software development and debugging. Learn more: speedscale.com.

Quick Load Testing & Mocking with Proxymock and AI #loadtesting #mocktest #softwaretesting #devops

Learn how to quickly set up a load testing foundation for your Node app using the free ProxyMock tool combined with an AI coding agent. This walkthrough demonstrates how to record traffic, mock dependencies, and analyze latency distribution results in just a few simple steps. Learn more: speedscale.com.

What a room of engineers asked me about realtime resilience

I spoke about Ably's approach to resilience at the AWS Cloud Resilience Roadshow in Dublin on 22 September 2026, and the questions afterwards covered CDNs, regional failover, outages, message ordering, and capacity. They got me reflecting on which parts of our approach are common across the industry, which are less so, and how choices made early, well before my time at Ably, have put us in a strong position today.

Building With ARIA: From Plain English to EDI Flows

ARIA is an AI Agent that has full knowledge of the Astera ecosystem. Sudais (Growth Strategist) sits down with Hasham Qazi (AI Product Specialist), to talk about why, and how that single agent, ARIA, builds data flows, workflows, and EDI pipelines from plain-language prompts. Hasham walks through a real use case, building an EDI flow from a file you hand to the agent, and explains what ARIA does when your prompt has gaps, how it checks its own work, and where it's heading next.

What IT Buyers Need to Know Before a Mainframe Refresh

Most mainframe storage refreshes begin with a notice. A support statement gets revised, a lifecycle date is published, a lease comes due, or a capacity report shows the estate crossing a threshold two years earlier than anyone planned for. A purchase that had been sitting comfortably in a future budget cycle now has to close in this one. Under deadline pressure, the instinct is to buy the current generation of the platform you already run.

AI at Scale: Why Trust, Not the Model, Decides Who Wins

Every AI conversation eventually turns into a model conversation: which one is fastest, which one hallucinates least, which one your competitors are already using. Three recent episodes of The Data and AI Chief, hosted by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data and AI Strategy Officer Cindi Howson, make a different case entirely about what it takes to scale AI in the enterprise.

Performance Considerations with Offset and Cursor Pagination in Plain PHP and Doctrine ORM

Displaying a list of items from the database is probably the most common functionality built for web applications. This is where pagination with LIMIT clause comes into play, which is most likely what you learned to use. This pattern is called offset pagination. In this post I am going to contrast it with cursor pagination and the performance considerations that come with the choice of pagination algorithm. Examples are with Plain PHP and Doctrine ORM 3.7, which ships a new CursorPaginator class.

AI-Native CI/CD Testing: Building Reliable Release Pipelines for AI Applications

Traditional CI/CD pipelines relied on determinism, assuming code produced an exact, repeatable output. Generative models and agentic workflows break this model. A single prompt edit or model checkpoint update can pass standard unit tests while causing silent regressions like truncated API payloads or missing parameters five steps downstream. To ship probabilistic AI reliably, engineering teams must redefine what counts as a passing test.