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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

· 34,998 Views · 3 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

· 12,138 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 5,283 Views · 3 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

· 5,663 Views · 4 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, Ph.D

CORE

· 3,381 Views · 4 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

· 3,865 Views · 3 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

· 6,899 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 4,915 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 2,552 Views · 1 Like

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

· 5,108 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 6,315 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 7,112 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 2,715 Views · 1 Like

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

· 4,182 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,861 Views · 1 Like

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

· 1,614 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,511 Views · 3 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

· 2,097 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 5,419 Views · 3 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

· 1,846 Views · 4 Likes

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