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Agentic AI Is Breaking System Boundaries — And Your Org Chart Is Next
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Most engineers use LLMs daily but can't explain what happens between prompt and response.
Here's the full pipeline — 8 concepts, one image. Save this.
🔁 Tokenization → Embeddings → Attention → Transformer → KV Cache → Sampling → Context Window → Inference Optimisation
![Hello world" enters an LLM as [9906, 1917]. By the time output appears, it's been through tokenization, embeddings, 96 transformer layers, KV cache, and a probability sampler. Most people call this "AI." Engineers should know what's actually happening.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFzIceYbAAEnx0N.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Hello world" enters an LLM as [9906, 1917]. By the time output appears, it's been through tokenization, embeddings, 96 transformer layers, KV cache, and a probability sampler. Most people call this "AI." Engineers should know what's actually happening.
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Rate limiting is not about blocking bad actors.
It's about protecting good ones from each other. Most teams pick one without knowing why.
#RateLimiting #APIDesign #SystemDesign
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Most engineers pick a caching strategy based on
what they've used before — not what the system
actually needs.
8 strategies. Different tradeoffs. Cache-aside ≠ always the answer.
🧵Which one do you default to ?
#DistributedSystems #SystemDesign
🤖 Made with AI
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Binary Tree Traversal (Inorder, Preorder and Postorder) is.gd/D5kHzv #rest #springboot #springframework #springmvc #java
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Spring Boot Starters javadevjournal.com/?p=634&ut… #java #springframework #rest #springboot #springmvc
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A long-awaited JEP: Classfile Processing API
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/d…
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We're delighted to announce that Spring Boot 2.7 has been released:
spring.io/blog/2022/05/19/sp…
There's lots in this release, including support for Spring for GraphQL. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
2.5's reached the end of OSS support so now's a great time to upgrade.
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"Microservices Decomposition Design Patterns" learncsdesign.medium.com/dec…
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"Microservices Design Patterns" learncsdesign.medium.com/mic…
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🛠 ngrok-spring-boot-starter
Downloads @ngrokHQ and exposes @springboot under public URL with zero configuration.
github.com/kilmajster/ngrok-…
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"Dream11: Blocking application attacks using AWS WAF at scale" aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/arch…
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"Domain-driven design practice — Modeling payments system" medium.com/@chaojie.xiao/dom…
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Rounding off todays set of releases we have Spring Boot 2.7.0-M3 and 3.0.0-M2.
spring.io/blog/2022/03/24/sp…
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Analysis of cascading failures in large-scale distributed systems
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Typical migration concerns and approaches
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/t…
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Interesting #Java fact of the day.
The time between the release of JDK 9 and JDK 18 (9 releases): 4 years, 6 months.
The time between the release of JDK 6 and JDK 7 (1 release): 4 years, 7 months.
Definitely, "moving Java forward, faster".
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Java 18 is here.🎉🥳. So what's new. A thread👇
1️⃣400:UTF-8 by Default
2️⃣408:Simple Web Server
3️⃣413:Code Snippets in Java API Documentation
4️⃣416:Reimplement Core Reflection with Method Handles
