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Runtime FinOps: Making Cloud Cost Observable

Treat cloud cost as a real-time system metric tied to deployments. With tagging, CI/CD estimates, and alerts to service owners, teams can catch spend spikes early.

April 15, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,079 Views · 1 Like

6 Books That Changed How I Think About Software Engineering in 2026

These six reshaped how I think about engineering: strategy, emotional intelligence, team effectiveness, software design coupling, ultralearning, and docs-as-code.

April 9, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 5,238 Views · 2 Likes

Accelerating Your Software Engineering Career With Open Source and Jakarta EE

Open source turns preparation into visibility. Combined with open standards like Jakarta EE, it builds credibility, adaptability, and real-world impact.

April 8, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 5,019 Views · 2 Likes

Serverless Glue Jobs at Scale: Where the Bottlenecks Really Are

At scale, Glue jobs become shuffle-bound, not CPU-bound. Skew and file strategy dominate runtime. Adding workers helps less than reshaping the workload.

March 13, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 5,344 Views · 2 Likes

AI Is Rewriting How Product Managers and Engineers Build Together

AI breaks the traditional handoff between product and engineering. Success will depend on how PMs and engineers share tradeoffs around cost, latency, and risk.

March 10, 2026

by Raman Aulakh

· 3,680 Views · 2 Likes

2026 Developer Research Report

The results are in from DZone's 2025 Community Survey. See what developers are building, learning, and adopting in this year's report.

March 6, 2026

by Carisse Dumaua

· 5,083 Views · 5 Likes

The Human Bottleneck in DevOps: Automating Knowledge with AIOps and SECI

DevOps pipelines are often automated, yet the operations side remains surprisingly manual. Here’s a framework to reduce toil using AIOps and the SECI model.

February 13, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 1,856 Views · 1 Like

DZone's Article Submission Guidelines

Want to be a DZone contributor? We welcome you! See what it takes for your article to get published!

Updated February 4, 2026

by DZone Editorial

· 359,069 Views · 103 Likes

Building a 300 Channel Video Encoding Server

NETINT VPU Technology with Ampere® Altra® Processors set new operational cost and efficiency standards

February 3, 2026

by John Oneill

· 2,804 Views · 1 Like

Apache Spark 4.0: What’s New for Data Engineers and ML Developers

Spark 4.0 brings Spark Connect, enhanced SQL (PIPE, VARIANT), richer Python APIs, and advanced streaming — modernizing Spark for faster, more flexible 2025 workloads.

January 12, 2026

by harshraj bhoite

· 2,386 Views

Why Data Engineers Need to Think Like Product Managers

Data engineers who think like product managers build more valuable, trusted, and user-centric data systems; they focus on outcomes, ownership, and UX, not just pipelines.

January 6, 2026

by harshraj bhoite

· 2,506 Views

Building Your Own Ledger: A Solo Developer's Answer to Time and Money Chaos

This article provides a look at how developers can track time, manage projects, and link work to invoices without juggling multiple tools.

January 5, 2026

by Konstantin Om

· 1,362 Views

How We Predict Dataflow Job Duration Using ML and Observability Data

How Real-Time Observability Signals and Cloud-Native ML Models Improve Runtime Forecasting, Capacity Planning, and Operational Efficiency in Dataflow Pipelines

December 16, 2025

by Deepika Singh

· 1,346 Views

Building Your Tech Career Like Code: A Systematic AI Approach

Instead of chasing job postings, treat your career like engineering a system: analyze data, define requirements, build a roadmap, validate, and measure progress.

December 16, 2025

by Kevin Jeter

· 1,946 Views · 1 Like

[closed] DZone's 2025 Developer Community Survey

Calling all devs! Take our annual community survey and let your voice guide DZone in 2026.

December 15, 2025

by Carisse Dumaua

· 3,553 Views · 5 Likes

Breaking Into Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know

A short, thought-provoking take on moving from engineer to architect, and how to grow the skills that support that leap.

December 10, 2025

by Syamanthaka B

· 1,822 Views · 2 Likes

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

A Scrum Master facilitates Scrum events, removes impediments, addresses inefficiencies, and facilitates collaboration to improve the development team’s productivity.

November 7, 2025

by Sandeep Kashyap

· 4,857 Views · 4 Likes

AI Code Generation: The Productivity Paradox in Software Development

AI boosts coding speed short-term, but long-term gains need human oversight, reuse, and focus on code quality beyond cycle time.

November 5, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 3,430 Views · 4 Likes

Improving Developer Productivity With End-to-End GenAI Enablement

Build an end-to-end developer enablement hub locally with GenAI, automating everything from requirements to deployment to boost productivity and streamline workflows.

October 30, 2025

by Nabin Debnath

· 2,724 Views · 2 Likes

From Platform Cowboys to Governance Marshals: Taming the AI Wild West

AI feels like the Wild West — platform engineers must become governance marshals to scale trust and turn chaos into safe, sustainable innovation.

October 22, 2025

by Hugo Guerrero

CORE

· 2,653 Views · 1 Like

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