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Designing Replay-Safe CDC Pipelines With Kafka, Debezium, and Recovery Contracts

How to design CDC pipelines with Kafka, Debezium, idempotent writes, deterministic projections, replay workflows, reconciliation checks, and recovery evidence.

September 1, 2026

by Ishan Shah

· 3,080 Views · 1 Like

Your Quantized LLM Is Not Slow Because of the Quantization

My 2-bit model was slow because of a 778 MB memory copy per token, not the quantization. Profile what you did not compress.

September 1, 2026

by Pier-Jean MALANDRINO

CORE

· 2,610 Views

Stop Hardcoding Database Checks: Building a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework

Decouple validation from code. Learn how to build a dynamic, metadata-driven data quality framework using Databricks, Snowflake, and Python.

September 1, 2026

by Kshitish Nath

· 2,288 Views

How to Detect AI-Generated Images in C# Using an API

Build a C# workflow that analyzes uploaded images for signs of AI generation and turns the returned risk score into a practical application decision.

September 1, 2026

by Brian O'Neill

CORE

· 3,352 Views · 1 Like

The AI Gateway Pattern That JPMorgan, Stripe, and Every Smart Fintech Is Quietly Standardizing On

Every microservice calling OpenAI directly is a $4,000/month surprise waiting to happen. The shift nobody's writing about — but everyone at scale is building.

September 1, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 3,064 Views · 2 Likes

Evolve or Automate: What It Actually Means to Be an AI-Native Data Engineer

The role isn't disappearing. But if you're still doing the same job you were doing two years ago, you're already behind.

September 1, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,622 Views · 1 Like

Designing a Dynamic Multi-Hierarchy Security Model for Analytics and Decision Support Systems

How we built row-level security across Workday HCM, Salesforce, Snowflake, Power BI, and Adaptive Planning that survives a reorganization.

August 31, 2026

by Yadi Reddy Mangannagari

· 2,532 Views · 1 Like

Natural IDs in Your Database. I Am Telling You for the Last Time!

What about natural keys in the database? If I have a column that uniquely identifies a record, should I use it as the Primary Key?

August 31, 2026

by Mikhail Polivakha

· 2,373 Views · 1 Like

Securing Database Connections With Mutual TLS

Mutual TLS strengthens database security by authenticating both clients and servers, reducing the risks associated with password-based authentication.

August 31, 2026

by Rahul Roy

· 2,865 Views

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database

Learn how I built an open-source SQL query analyzer that generates dialect-correct index recommendations across multiple dialects.

August 31, 2026

by Sudhakararao Sajja

· 2,035 Views

When "Roughly Right" Looks Like a Liability: Engineering Financial-Grade Data Pipelines

Learn how to build financial-grade pipelines using idempotent merges, hard-blocking dbt tests, and automated freshness alerts.

August 31, 2026

by Kiran Kumar Javangula

· 1,655 Views

Secure AI Systems: Defending Enterprise Applications Against Agent-Era Threats

Secure enterprise AI agents with zero-trust, prompt defenses, identity isolation, secure orchestration, and continuous observability against emerging agent-era threats.

August 31, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,553 Views · 3 Likes

How to Monitor AI Models Without Drowning in Alerts

In this article, we will discuss monitoring AI models wisely. Prioritize actionable alerts so that real issues stand out instead of getting lost in the noise.

August 28, 2026

by Aditya Shrivastava

· 2,992 Views · 2 Likes

The Reasoning Control Plane: The Missing Architectural Layer in Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-agent systems lack a governance layer for reasoning. The Reasoning Control Plane addresses this with shared context, A2A access controls, observability, guardrails.

August 28, 2026

by Sushree Mishra

· 2,593 Views · 2 Likes

Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Six risk-driven patterns from a Fortune 50 insurer's first WebSphere-to-AWS migration — and why decoupling decided the outcome.

August 28, 2026

by Alka Nimje

· 2,702 Views · 3 Likes

Why AI Projects Stall Between Proof of Concept and Production

Many AI projects succeed as prototypes but fail in production due to data, integration, governance, monitoring, and other challenges. Let's find out more.

August 28, 2026

by Vikrant Bhalodia

· 2,535 Views · 2 Likes

How Engineering Teams Can Build Trustworthy AI Systems Before They Reach Production

How engineering teams can test, monitor, and govern AI systems before deployment to catch failures early and ensure they’re ready for production.

August 27, 2026

by Olamilekan Lamidi

· 4,231 Views

When Guest Access Becomes an Attack Surface: A Technical Analysis of the City-Forum Campaign

Learn how attackers enumerated Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow portals, and how defenders can detect, audit, and prevent guest-access abuse.

August 27, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,695 Views

Orchestrating CNN Training and Inference Workflows With Temporal

Temporal makes CNN training and inference resilient with durable orchestration, automatic retries, checkpoint-based recovery, and reliable workflow execution.

August 27, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 3,003 Views · 3 Likes

Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin

A Java UDF that runs sentiment analysis directly inside the Neo4j database engine — no external APIs, no application-layer round-trips, callable from any Cypher query.

August 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,279 Views · 2 Likes

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