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Building an Async Validation API With AWS Bedrock Agents and Serverless Architecture

Build a serverless async API that uses AWS Bedrock Agents to validate business forms against 60+ rules in under 60 seconds, without blocking the user.

August 5, 2026

by Rohit Nagpal

· 1,614 Views

Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging an AWS SigV4 Request for a GCP access token to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

August 3, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,218 Views · 2 Likes

Containerizing and Testing a Python Backtesting System With Docker and GitHub Actions

Learn how to containerize a Python backtesting system with Docker, automate testing with GitHub Actions, and improve reproducibility through versioned builds.

July 31, 2026

by Gillian Lu

· 2,051 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,421 Views · 4 Likes

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 2,414 Views · 2 Likes

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

· 1,951 Views · 1 Like

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,373 Views · 3 Likes

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 7,908 Views

What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker

At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.

July 29, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,462 Views · 2 Likes

From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.

July 28, 2026

by DZone Staff

· 11,875 Views · 1 Like

Going Stateless: Scaling MCP Servers to Cloud-Native Java and HTTP

The Model Context Protocol has evolved to be entirely stateless over HTTP, removing complex session bottlenecks. Pairing this update with cloud-native Java, Quarkus!

July 16, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,903 Views · 2 Likes

Cloud Cost Optimization Was Hard; AI Cost Optimization Will Be Worse.

Cloud cost optimization was hard because cloud made infrastructure consumption easy; AI cost optimization will be worse because AI makes decision consumption easy.

July 15, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 5,338 Views · 3 Likes

12 Factor Framework for Building Secure and Compliant Cloud Applications

Learn how a practical 12-factor framework embeds security, compliance, resilience, and governance into cloud-native applications.

July 14, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 3,120 Views · 3 Likes

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

Learn eight AWS Glue ETL design principles for building production PySpark pipelines that are maintainable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.

July 14, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,495 Views · 2 Likes

Machine Identity Debt: Why Human Identity Is No Longer Cloud Security's Primary Boundary

Machine identities now outnumber human ones in cloud environments. Learn how to secure workloads with modern identity governance and trust.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 6,556 Views · 1 Like

Disaster Recovery as a Governance System

DR failures often occur due to unclear decision ownership. Treat recovery as a governed process with explicit modes, approvals, and evidence.

July 9, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 1,809 Views · 1 Like

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,335 Views

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,963 Views

Azure Databricks for Scalable MLOps and Feature Engineering With Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow

A practical guide to feature engineering at scale with Azure Databricks, covering distributed data processing with Spark and reliable storage with Delta Lake.

July 6, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,382 Views

Building an AI Agent That Responds to Real-Time Events With AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3

Build an AI agent that processes real-time events with Amazon Bedrock and a serverless AWS architecture powered by Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3.

July 3, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,284 Views · 1 Like

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