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This year has been transformative for technology, reshaping the business landscape with groundbreaking advancements and unprecedented challenges. Generative AI continues to unlock new possibilities, while cybersecurity threats have escalated to new heights. Across APAC — a fast-emerging global innovation hub — businesses have grappled with the twin forces of regulatory evolution and technological breakthroughs.

Apache DataFusion has reached an inflection point. It has matured beyond early adopters and is now a viable choice for anyone building highly performant analytic systems. I predict 2025 will bring a significant acceleration in the number of systems built on DataFusion, and my focus this year is to help drive that growth.

Learn about container security, its architecture, and essential best practices to protect your apps in cloud-native environments.

OpenSearch Serverless simplifies search and analytics with auto-scaling, cost efficiency, and easy management, ideal for large-scale applications.

Log tracing tracks requests across systems while logging captures events within a system. Both are essential for effective observability.

Even if your website is perfectly designed on paper, users don’t always follow the script. They often behave in ways you might never predict. Real user monitoring (RUM), also known as end-user experience monitoring or digital experience monitoring, closes that gap by providing a moment-to-moment view of user interactions. It allows you to spot where visitors encounter friction, confusion, or slowdowns that could impact conversions. These insights benefit your entire team.

curl is one of those programs that feels like its always been there for you in a pinch, like when you're trying to debug what your API is doing, and yet we never take the time to actually learn how to use it (I only ever used it via "copy as curl" from my browser's devtools). It's insanely powerful too, run curl --help all to see what I mean. In this article, we're going to take the time to learn what we can do with a tiny subset of curl's options, so we don't have to look them up every time.