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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

· 34,960 Views · 3 Likes

The Lethal Trifecta Is Hiding in Your MCP Server

MCP makes it trivial to give an agent the "lethal trifecta," so one poisoned input can leak your secrets. Prompts can't stop it; a deterministic broker can.

July 29, 2026

by Veera Ravindra DIVI

· 2,545 Views · 1 Like

The Java Story: The Official Documentary Is Here

This traces Java’s evolution from Oak to a global software platform, revealing its impact on open source, standards, engineering, and the community behind it.

July 29, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 3,302 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

· 12,126 Views · 2 Likes

Why SQL Server Applications Break on PostgreSQL and How Compatibility Layers Fix It

SQL Server migrations break at the application layer. A compatibility layer like Babelfish keeps T-SQL running while the engine moves to PostgreSQL.

July 27, 2026

by Minesh Chande

· 3,309 Views · 2 Likes

Designing Secure REST APIs With Spring Boot

Learn how to secure Spring Boot REST APIs with JWT validation, method-level authorization, input validation, rate limiting, CORS, secure logging, and more.

July 27, 2026

by Srivenkata Gantikota

· 3,406 Views · 2 Likes

Designing a Page Object Model + TestNG Hybrid Framework: Patterns That Actually Scale

Basic Page Object Model doesn't scale. Here are the four real-world patterns needed to maintain a 2,400-test Selenium suite.

July 27, 2026

by Rajasekhar sunkara

· 12,138 Views · 1 Like

Stop Fine-Tuning Everything: A Decision Framework for Model Adaptation

When to prompt, when to fine-tune, when to pre-train — a decision framework to get the most out of your data and the most bang for your buck.

July 27, 2026

by Supriya Vijay

· 2,818 Views · 1 Like

Building a Voice-Controlled Graph Assistant With Neo4j, LiveKit, and OpenAI

Build a voice assistant that lets you ask natural-language questions to a Neo4j graph database and hear the answers spoken back.

July 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,052 Views · 1 Like

Lift-and-Shift vs. Modernize: A Decision Framework for Enterprise Workloads

This five-question framework helps you decide for each workload whether to rehost, re-platform, or rebuild before you migrate.

July 24, 2026

by Srinivasarao Thumala

· 4,240 Views · 2 Likes

From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026

Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.

July 24, 2026

by Nathan Smith

· 3,123 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build Living AI Coding Assistants With Quarkus Agent MCP

Supercharge local development with the standalone Quarkus Agent MCP server, allowing AI assistants to run, monitor, and debug Java applications.

July 23, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,825 Views · 4 Likes

Stop Writing If-Else Spaghetti: Architecting Cleaner Java with the Strategy Pattern

Stop writing messy nested conditionals. Learn how to combine Java Enums, Functional Interfaces, and Spring to build a scalable Strategy Pattern.

July 23, 2026

by Rahul Tewari

· 7,763 Views · 4 Likes

API Testing Frameworks: How to Pick the Right One and Actually Use It Well

Learn how to choose the right API testing framework, including REST Assured, Supertest, pytest, Postman, Karate, and Keploy, for better API test automation.

July 23, 2026

by Himanshu Mandhyan

· 3,321 Views · 2 Likes

Refresh Token Rotation in Node.js: Stopping Token Theft Without Logging Users Out

Implementing refresh token rotation with reuse detection, a pattern that limits the damage of a stolen token while keeping legitimate users logged in.

July 22, 2026

by Bilal Azam

· 3,911 Views · 1 Like

React 19 Killed Half My Performance Optimization Code, and I'm Grateful

React 19's compiler eliminated most of my useMemo and useCallback code. Table virtualization, optimistic updates, and route splitting still need manual attention.

July 22, 2026

by Rohit G

· 6,370 Views · 3 Likes

How Agentic AI Is Turning Traditional Automation Into a Tool Layer?

Agentic AI doesn’t replace traditional automation. It uses existing workflows, APIs, and systems as tools while handling decisions, exceptions, and complex tasks.

July 22, 2026

by Sagar Sahay Bhatnagar

· 3,648 Views · 1 Like

Will AI Keep Us Stuck in 2020 Architectures?

AI coding assistants are deeply fluent in current Spring conventions, which raises a real question: does that lock architecture into 2020-era patterns? It turns out, no.

July 21, 2026

by Daniel Sagenschneider

· 3,418 Views · 2 Likes

Hardening MCP Gateways: Mitigating July 28 Security Risks in Java Applications

The latest MCP updates introduce security risks like protocol confusion. Quarkus mitigates these vectors using strict request filtering and enterprise security layers.

July 21, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,662 Views · 1 Like

Reducing CI Execution Time Using Impact-Based Test Selection Across Repositories

CI optimization using Git diff and JGit to selectively run impacted Karate tests, reducing regression execution while preserving safe fallback coverage.

July 21, 2026

by Raakesh Rajagopalan

· 4,126 Views · 1 Like

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