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A Practical Blueprint for Deploying Agentic Solutions

Learn about how middleware in AI agent frameworks enables request rewriting, tool filtering, and context control — capabilities callbacks alone can’t support.

June 8, 2026

by Abhishek Trehan

· 1,357 Views

The Middleware Gap in AI Agent Frameworks

Most agent frameworks observe model calls and allow rewriting them only after they reach the model, making an understanding of callbacks and middleware essential.

June 8, 2026

by Ninaad Rao

CORE

· 2,328 Views · 4 Likes

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners' Guide for Contributing to Our CNCF Project Website

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers the entry point for developers that want to contribute to a CNCF project website but are not sure how.

June 5, 2026

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 2,879 Views · 1 Like

Prompt Injection Is Real, So I Built a Python Firewall for LLM Pipelines

promptsanitizer is a Python firewall that cleans prompts, inputs, and outputs before risky text reaches or leaves an LLM.

June 5, 2026

by Sai Teja Erukude

· 5,846 Views · 1 Like

From 24 Hours to 2 Hours: How We Fixed a Broken BI System With Apache Airflow

Broken pipelines, inaccurate data, frustrated stakeholders. Here is what we did about it and what I wish I had known before we started.

June 5, 2026

by Chinni krishna Abburi

· 2,673 Views

Is the Data Warehouse Dead? 3 Patterns From Enterprise Architecture That Answer This Question

No, but its role has fundamentally changed. Here is what I have seen work, after building data platforms at enterprise scale across multiple industries.

June 5, 2026

by Nabarun Bandyopadhyay

· 5,308 Views · 1 Like

Spring AI Advisors: Chat Memory, Token Tracking, and Message Logging

Part 3 of a step-by-step tutorial that decorates the implementation with Spring AI advisors to demonstrate how certain production concerns may be addressed.

June 5, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 3,808 Views · 4 Likes

Why Round-Robin Won't Save You: Load Balancing Challenges in Data Streaming Services With Heterogeneous Traffic

Throughput-based load balancing breaks down when streaming messages have heterogeneous processing costs — the fix is balancing on actual per-partition resource usage.

June 5, 2026

by Semyon Slepov

· 3,474 Views · 1 Like

Why Your Test Automation Is Always Behind the Code And the Architecture That Fixes It

Most QA teams are stuck in a manual scripting loop. Here's the requirement-driven architecture that eliminates the coverage gap permanently.

June 5, 2026

by Waqar Hashmi

· 3,952 Views · 1 Like

Good Data, Bad Metric: A Mutation Testing Pattern for Analytics Engineering

A mutation testing pattern for analytics metrics that checks if validation catches realistic business logic errors early.

June 4, 2026

by Prateek Arora

· 4,540 Views · 1 Like

Persistent Memory for AI Agents Using LangChain's Deep Agents

Most AI agents forget you when the session ends. deepagents fixes that — persistent per-user memory across sessions, no vector database.

June 4, 2026

by Ninaad Rao

CORE

· 4,371 Views · 4 Likes

A System Cannot Protect What It Does Not Understand

Inside the system, there is always a boundary between incoming data and stored state, and that boundary is not passive. It acts like a gatekeeper.

June 4, 2026

by Jan Nilsson

· 2,983 Views

Building a High-Throughput Distributed Sequence Generator Using the Hi-Lo Algorithm

Design scalable sequential ID generation in distributed systems using the Hi-Lo pattern with Cosmos DB to reduce contention, improve latency, and maintain ordering.

June 4, 2026

by Vikas Mittal

· 2,624 Views

The Hidden Cost of AI Tokens: Engineering Patterns for 10x Resource Efficiency

How we cut our AI API bill from $127K to $13.8K monthly — not by switching providers, but by treating tokens as a first-class architectural concern.

June 4, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 2,650 Views · 1 Like

Beyond Manual Annotation: Engineering Self-Correcting Pseudo-Labeling Pipelines

This article details a resilient pseudo-labeling architecture. It combines Redis ingestion, Matryoshka embeddings, XGBoost to neutralize self-training confirmation bias.

June 4, 2026

by Harshith Narasimhan Srivatsa

· 2,509 Views

Testing AI-Infused Apps: A Dual-Layer Framework for AI Quality Assurance

Reliable AI delivery isn't either/or—it's both/and. Test conventionally for functionality. Evaluate probabilistically for quality. Deploy with dual-discipline confidence.

June 4, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 4,636 Views · 2 Likes

Real-Time AI Inference at Scale Using Cloud Run, GPUs, and Vertex AI

Build scalable threat intel pipelines with Python, STIX/TAXII APIs, and Elasticsearch. Normalize data, preserve context, and enable fast, reliable detection.

June 4, 2026

by khadarvali shaik

· 2,515 Views

Build a GitHub Slack Bot With AWS Bedrock and MCP, Part 2

Build a Slack bot using AWS Bedrock and MCP to answer GitHub questions. Learn setup, architecture, and how to extend it with new tools and data sources.

June 4, 2026

by Sangharsh Agarwal

· 3,107 Views

Compliance Automated Standard Solution (COMPASS), Part 11: Compliance as Code, the OSCAL MCP Server Way

How AI-native tooling is finally closing the loop between compliance personas and OSCAL artifacts with an MCP-standardized, AI-agent-ready interface.

June 4, 2026

by Yuji Watanabe

· 3,159 Views · 1 Like

Building Threat Intelligence Pipelines Using Python, APIs, and Elasticsearch

STIX/TAXII in, ECS normalized, provenance preserved deterministic IDs, correct bulk writes, ingest pipelines keep threat indicator data reliable and queryable under load.

June 3, 2026

by Krishnaveni Musku

· 3,450 Views

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