Data Engineering Resources

Orchestrating Retail-Scale Data on Google Cloud

In this post, learn how to build scalable, reliable retail data pipelines with Google Cloud: Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer in action.

January 7, 2026

by Balakrishna Aitha

· 1,232 Views

Solving the Cold Start Problem in Edge AI: A Guide to Data-Saving Learning

Update edge AI models efficiently using Mix Up and contribution sampling to overcome domain shift with minimal data, ensuring continuous evolution without forgetting.

January 6, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 3,638 Views

Metadata, Not Data Volume, Is the Real Bottleneck in Modern Data Lakes

In Apache Iceberg data lakes, growing snapshots and manifests often make metadata resolution — not data scanning — the primary performance bottleneck.

January 6, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 3,420 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

· 2,351 Views

BYOLM with Spring AI & MCP: Secure, Swappable AI Everywhere

Spring AI and MCP empower BYOLM by enabling swappable language models with privacy, control, and extensibility. Learn more about this approach below.

January 6, 2026

by Soham Sengupta

· 1,617 Views

Understanding Parquet Scans: How Readers Skip Work and Stay Fast

Parquet accelerates scans by skipping data through metadata driven pushdowns. This article explains how the main mechanisms work in practice.

January 6, 2026

by Hitarth Trivedi

· 2,556 Views · 1 Like

A Practical Guide to Semantic Caching With Redis LangCache

Learn how to use Redis LangCache to semantically cache LLM prompts and responses, reducing inference costs and improving performance.

January 6, 2026

by Subhashini Raman

· 3,031 Views · 2 Likes

Effectively Managing AI Agents for Testing

Agentic AI can transform testing—but only if it’s controlled. Start small, add guardrails, integrate tools, and scale autonomy once reliability and cost are proven.

January 6, 2026

by John Vester

CORE

· 4,520 Views · 1 Like

Unlocking Hidden Value in Dirty Data: A Practical NLP Pattern for Legacy Records

Legacy systems are full of free-text fields where valuable business data goes to die. NLP pipelines turn messy maintenance logs into structured, actionable insights.

January 5, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 1,372 Views · 5 Likes

Securing Verifiable Credentials With DPoP: A Spring Boot Implementation

DPoP binds access tokens to a client's key so even if intercepted, they can't be misused. It's mandatory for EUDI/HAIP 1.0 and supported since Spring Boot 3.5.

January 5, 2026

by Kyriakos Mandalas

CORE

· 4,140 Views · 4 Likes

Beyond the Spec Sheet: Performance Tuning a Massive DWH Migration on AWS

Migrating legacy data warehouses to the cloud is rarely a simple "lift and shift." Here’s a deep dive into solving EBS throughput issues on EC2.

January 5, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 2,923 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond Fuzzy Matching: Engineering a Multi-Signal ML Pipeline for CRM Deduplication

This article explores using blocking, fuzzy matching, geo proximity, and a Random Forest classifier to streamline records.

January 5, 2026

by Punitha Ponnuraj

· 853 Views · 1 Like

Raw Agent Systems Explained: From Single Agents to Multi-Agent Networks

This study examines raw agent systems, from single-agent frameworks to multi-agent networks, and discusses LangGraph implementations and their significant challenges.

January 5, 2026

by Karthik Jeyapal

· 1,352 Views · 1 Like

How to Perform Response Verification in REST-Assured Java for API Testing

Explore the various methods for extracting and verifying the API response body using the Rest-Assured framework in Java for API Testing.

January 5, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 3,284 Views · 1 Like

Best Date Conversion Approaches in Java 8+

Java 8’s java.time API finally fixed the long-standing problems of Date and Calendar, but real applications still require constant conversion between time zones.

January 5, 2026

by Muhammed Harris Kodavath

· 3,111 Views · 2 Likes

Fine-Tune SLMs for Free: From Google Colab to Ollama in 7 Steps

Want your own custom SLM, but don't have a GPU box humming under your desk? Learn from this article why you actually don’t need one.

January 5, 2026

by Sai Teja Erukude

· 5,232 Views

Tired of Reverse-Engineering Code? A Data-First Pattern for Legacy Modernization

Legacy modernization fails because teams try to decipher millions lines of code. Here is a pattern to slim down systems by reverse-engineering the data.

January 2, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 2,664 Views · 2 Likes

AutoML vs. LLMs: A Developer’s Guide to Efficient ML Pipeline Generation

While large language models (LLMs) dominate the AI conversation, AutoML remains the king for structured data. Here’s how to choose the right tool for your infrastructure.

January 2, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 1,968 Views · 1 Like