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One Click From Requirements to Production: The Promise and the Reality

AI deployment demos always end before the hard part begins. Writing code is 20% of delivery. This article breaks down the hidden 80% that demos never show you.

July 21, 2026

by Sanketh Kumar Divveda

· 2,769 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

· 3,732 Views

Search Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents

The future of AI agents is searchable tool discovery, not hardcoded APIs. MCP and semantic search are turning tools into capabilities agents can find and use at runtime.

July 21, 2026

by sunil paidi

· 2,212 Views

Scaling Row-Level Security With ABAC on Databricks Unity Catalog

Learn how to scale row-level security in Databricks Unity Catalog using a tag-driven ABAC pattern that reduces maintenance and simplifies onboarding.

July 20, 2026

by Sriram Vadlamani

· 2,533 Views

Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026

Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report. Read it. It's the most comprehensive look at AI in production available now.

July 20, 2026

by AJAY DEVINENI

· 3,716 Views · 1 Like

7 Essential Guardrails for Building AI SRE Agents

AI agents can take over the first minutes of incident response, but only with the right boundaries. Seven guardrails that keep an SRE agent from becoming the outage.

July 20, 2026

by Akhilesh Rao Meesala

· 2,410 Views · 3 Likes

Fix Circular Dependencies in PostgreSQL Row-Level Security With SECURITY DEFINER Functions

Circular RLS policy dependencies in PostgreSQL silently return no rows. Here is why it happens and how SECURITY DEFINER functions fix it.

July 20, 2026

by Lex Mulier

· 2,269 Views · 1 Like

When Data Quality Checks Pass but the Data Is Still Stale

A pipeline can pass every check and still serve stale data. Measure freshness (event time to publish time), not just validity.

July 20, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 1,978 Views

Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That

Agent systems discard the reasoning behind decisions. Capture workflow IDs, semantic logs, and prompt context before production deployment.

July 17, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 36,190 Views · 2 Likes

Mitigating Cache Stampedes in Dynamic API Translation Using Java 21 Virtual Threads

Building a dynamic API translation proxy that leverages Java 21 Virtual Threads and Redisson distributed locking to safely execute AI-driven schema mapping.

July 17, 2026

by Aniruddha Chatterjee

· 3,800 Views · 3 Likes

Seeding Postgres When Your Schema Has Foreign-Key Cycles

Three strategies for seeding Postgres schemas with foreign-key cycles: nullable two-pass, DEFERRABLE constraints, and schema-aware generators.

July 17, 2026

by Mikhail Shytsko

· 3,118 Views · 4 Likes

AGENTS.md Makes Your Java Codebase AI-Agent Ready

A standardized instruction layer for enabling AI agents to accurately navigate, build, and test applications by enforcing clear architectural and operational constraints.

July 17, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,372 Views · 3 Likes

Every SOC Today Is Answering the Wrong Question

Rethink SOC architecture with Continuous Evidence Graphs that connect identities, sessions, and resources instead of relying on alert timelines.

July 17, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,029 Views

Designing Scalable Containerized Backend Services

Learn to build high-concurrency relational microservices using Python and Docker, focusing on async connection pooling and state management.

July 17, 2026

by Estefanio Fernando

· 2,522 Views · 1 Like

When AI Agents Call Your Microservices: 5 Assumptions That No Longer Hold

Five assumptions break predictable volume, rare duplicates, human-owned auth, fault-only retries, and log-based debugging, and five targeted fixes address each one.

July 16, 2026

by Maryna Klochkova

· 2,912 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

· 4,938 Views · 2 Likes

Platform Engineering 2.0: Evolve the Substrate for AI and Agents

As the workload demands for platform teams change to meet the needs of agents, so too must the platform paradigm itself.

July 16, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 24,671 Views · 2 Likes

Your Agent Trusts That Wiki. Should It?

AI agents need more than execution correctness. Instruction provenance must be a first-class security property before privileged actions are trusted.

July 16, 2026

by Abhinav Srivastava

· 4,278 Views

AI Agent Harness Lock-In: 5 Portability Tests to Run Before You Commit

Five harness portability tests — memory, tools, skills, orchestration, and governance — that reveal what you trade when committing to an AI agent platform.

July 16, 2026

by Deneesh Narayanasamy

· 2,873 Views

Your AI Agent Trusts Every Tool It's Ever Been Introduced To; That's the Whole Problem

Learn about the 2026 MCP security crisis and a capability provenance architecture that detects tool drift, blocks attacks, and strengthens AI agent security.

July 16, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,776 Views · 1 Like

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