Cloud Architecture Resources

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, Ph.D

CORE

· 3,214 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

· 3,641 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

· 6,709 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

· 2,192 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

· 2,444 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

· 2,063 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

· 1,470 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

· 2,371 Views · 1 Like

Beyond Root Cause: Building Effective Blameless Postmortems for Cloud-Native Systems

Blameless postmortems focus on learning, not blame, helping teams improve reliability, reduce recurring incidents, and strengthen resilience.

July 2, 2026

by Akshay Pratinav

· 2,545 Views

One Stolen Key, One Stolen Token: Why Machine Identity Is Cloud-Native's Quietest Crisis — and the Only Fix That Actually Holds

Learn how stolen machine credentials fuel major cloud breaches and how policy-as-code and short-lived identities help stop modern attacks.

July 1, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,995 Views

Building Production-Safe Agentic Remediation With Docker MCP Gateway: Lessons From 43% to 100% Accuracy

We built an AI Docker remediation system on MCP Gateway. First version: 43% correct. After 9 engineering fixes: 100%. Here's what changed.

June 29, 2026

by Mohammad-Ali Arabi

· 2,617 Views

High-Cardinality Threat Detection: Why MapReduce Breaks and Heuristics Win

Scalable systems that succeed don’t process more — they ignore more, using heuristics to isolate the small fraction of activity that actually matters.

June 29, 2026

by Karanpreet Singh

· 1,518 Views

Selective Deployment in Azure Data Factory: A Practical Blueprint for Safer CI/CD

Implement selective deployment in Azure Data Factory to safely promote individual features without deploying the entire factory state

June 26, 2026

by Sauhard Bhatt

· 2,325 Views · 2 Likes

What Cloud Engineers Actually Need to Know About AI Infrastructure

AI infrastructure isn’t about GPUs. Most issues come from storage, networking, data pipelines. If GPU utilization is low, check the infrastructure first, not the model.

June 26, 2026

by Naveen Kalapala

· 1,896 Views · 1 Like

A Tool Is Not a Platform (And Your Team Knows the Difference)

Calling a collection of tools a platform creates expectations it cannot meet. A platform has a contract. A toolchain has documentation.

June 25, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 2,630 Views · 2 Likes

No VIP? No Problem: Pacemaker-Based SAP HANA High Availability Using a Load Balancer Health Check

Many cloud platforms do not support floating virtual IPs, which breaks the standard RHEL Pacemaker setup for SAP HANA HA. Use a network load balancer.

June 25, 2026

by Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS

CORE

· 1,705 Views · 3 Likes

Implementing Asynchronous Communication Between Microservices Using Kafka and Spring Boot

Kafka decouples services, buffers spikes, and routes failures to a DLT. Schemas are contracts; consumers must be idempotent.

June 24, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 3,514 Views · 1 Like

I Built a VS Code Extension to Debug Azure AI Foundry Agents Without Leaving My Editor

Free VS Code extension for Azure AI Foundry agent traces into your editor as an interactive timeline — see tool calls, token costs, and conversation replays.

June 23, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,940 Views · 1 Like

Automating Power Automate: How to Ensure Cloud Flows Are Active After Every Pipeline Deployment

Automate Power Platform deployments by resolving connection references and activating cloud flows after import, so every environment is ready when the pipeline finishes.

June 19, 2026

by karthik nallani chakravartula

· 2,810 Views · 1 Like

Your AI Coding Agent Can't Steal What It Never Had: The Docker Sandbox Isolation Story

Docker Sandbox runs AI agents in microVMs. The API key never enters the sandbox — the host proxy authenticates on the agent's behalf.

June 19, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,696 Views · 1 Like

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