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UX Research in Agile Product Development: Making AI Workflows Work for People

UX research in agile product development helps teams build AI workflows grounded in real user needs, reducing guesswork and improving ROI.

January 12, 2026

by Priyanka Kuvalekar

· 1,955 Views

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

· 2,185 Views

Speak Their Language: How Communication Profiling Prevents Agile Delivery Breakdowns

This article introduces a practical framework for diagnosing and stabilizing delivery by treating communication as system infrastructure.

January 8, 2026

by Ella Mitkin

· 2,645 Views · 3 Likes

Enterprise Kubernetes Failures: 20 Critical Misconfigurations Guardon Catches Before Outages

Kubernetes Misconfigurations Are Costing Enterprises Millions — Guardon Fixes More Than Just the “Top 20” YAML Mistakes.

January 8, 2026

by Sajal Nigam

· 2,267 Views · 2 Likes

Managing Changing Hardware/Peripherals in a Robust Point of Sale System

This analysis discusses my thoughts on implementing a secure, scalable architecture to manage changing peripherals through programming to interface.

January 8, 2026

by Vaibhav Rastogi

· 1,686 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

· 2,339 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

· 1,252 Views

The Coming Shift From Bigger AI Models to Smaller, Faster Ones

Smaller, specialized AI models are replacing giant LLMs. Learn why modular workflows deliver faster, cheaper, and more reliable results for enterprise AI.

December 29, 2025

by Chia-fu Kuo

· 1,623 Views

Manage Knowledge, Not Code

To ship faster and more reliably, teams must treat software development as a knowledge-optimization problem, not a coding problem.

December 29, 2025

by Chris Wardman

· 1,914 Views · 3 Likes

Rethinking QA: From DevOps to Platform Engineering and SRE

A wake‑up call for QA to upskill for platform engineering and SRE, including cloud‑native practices, automation mastery, and system reliability at scale.

December 19, 2025

by Nidhi Sharma

· 3,595 Views · 5 Likes

Agile Manifesto: The Reformation That Became the Church

Learn about how disruptive movements — from Luther to Agile — often harden into the orthodoxies they opposed, and how to follow principles, not rituals.

December 18, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 1,572 Views · 5 Likes

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

· 1,275 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

· 1,835 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

· 3,204 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

· 1,704 Views · 2 Likes

Agile Is Dead, Long Live Agility

Agile is dead, long live agility. The brand may have failed, but its core ideas succeeded. It’s time to move on; the name was just a vehicle.

December 9, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,511 Views · 4 Likes

From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations

Learn why Agile ceremonies fail when rituals replace real conversations and how to transform mechanical meetings into meaningful, value-driven events.

December 2, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,102 Views · 2 Likes