Databases Resources

Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures

Retries can amplify failures into outages. Use backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency, load shedding, and observability to keep systems stable under pressure.

February 27, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,368 Views

Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?

While many developers run containers on bare metal in development, in production, it's almost all VMs. What does this mean for the broader cloud landscape?

February 27, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 1,637 Views

Unified Intelligence: Mastering the Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning Integration

Bridge the gap between Big Data and production ML. Learn to integrate Azure Databricks with Azure Machine Learning for a seamless, scalable end-to-end MLOps workflow.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,199 Views

Similarity Search on Tabular Data With Natural Language Fields

Let us break down relational data silos with vector embeddings, unifying numerical, categorical, and natural-language fields into one semantic representation.

February 27, 2026

by CORRADO DE BARI

· 854 Views

AWS Bedrock vs. SageMaker: Choosing the Right GenAI Stack in 2026

Deciding between Bedrock's serverless ease and SageMaker's deep control? This guide breaks down the 2026 AWS GenAI landscape for you.

February 26, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,352 Views · 1 Like

Terraform AWS Provider Explained Like You’re Five (With Real Code)

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that allows teams to define AWS infrastructure using declarative configuration files instead of manual console clicks.

February 26, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 1,365 Views

Zero-Trust Cross-Cloud: Calling AWS From GCP Without Static Keys Using MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging Google ID tokens for temporary AWS STS credentials to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

February 26, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,291 Views · 3 Likes

A Unified Framework for SRE to Troubleshoot Database Connectivity in Kubernetes Cloud Applications

Troubleshoot Kubernetes database connectivity using a layered diagnostic framework and achieve rapid root-cause identification and production stability.

February 25, 2026

by Prakash Velusamy

· 2,938 Views

How We Cut AI API Costs by 70% Without Sacrificing Quality: A Technical Deep-Dive

Intelligent caching and model routing reduced our AI API costs from $12,340 to $3,680 per month. Production-tested optimizer. Open source. MIT license.

February 25, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 1,443 Views · 1 Like

Cutting P99 Latency From ~3.2s To ~650ms in a Policy‑Driven Authorization API (Python + MongoDB)

We cut tail latency by making queries index-friendly, removing cold-start connection costs, and overlapping third‑party I/O with computation.

February 25, 2026

by Rohit Muthyala

· 1,008 Views

Edge Computing's Infrastructure Problem: What Two Years of Factory Visits Actually Revealed

Most edge computing remains cloud-dependent, with genuine use cases limited to strict latency or connectivity needs — making it more marketing than architecture.

February 25, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,425 Views · 2 Likes

Backend Graph DB for Custom File System

App-specific file management may result in performance problems if the design uses the transactional database platform. Let's consider alternatives.

February 25, 2026

by Scott Sosna

CORE

· 797 Views

Azure SLM Showdown: Evaluating Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic for Production

Evaluate Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic. Learn to deploy cost-effective, high-performance SLMs on Azure for production workloads.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,437 Views

Data Driven API Testing in Java with Rest-Assured and TestNG: Part 1

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with Rest-Assured using object arrays and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

February 23, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,915 Views · 2 Likes

Azure AI Search at Scale: Building RAG Applications with Enhanced Vector Capacity

Azure AI Search now supports massive vector scale (tens of millions per index) with better performance and cost efficiency.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 791 Views

Architecting Zero-Trust Database Access in Kubernetes With Vault Dynamic Secrets

Replace static passwords with dynamic, ephemeral credentials using Vault and sidecar injection to automate database security in Kubernetes workloads.

February 20, 2026

by Niranjan Kumar Sharma

· 3,600 Views · 2 Likes

Why End-to-End Testing Fails in Microservice Architectures

End-to-end testing fails in microservices due to non-determinism, complex environments, slow feedback, and unclear ownership, making tests flaky and unreliable.

February 20, 2026

by Alok Kumar

· 2,422 Views

AWS SageMaker HyperPod: Distributed Training for Foundation Models at Scale

Master distributed training at scale with AWS SageMaker HyperPod's resilient cluster management and high-performance interconnects.

February 19, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,387 Views

Mastering Serverless Data Pipelines: AWS Step Functions Best Practices for 2026

AWS Step Functions is central to modern serverless data engineering, yet many teams struggle to build pipelines that scale reliably in production.

February 19, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,911 Views

Embedding Store as a Platform on AWS: OpenSearch + Bedrock + S3 Needs SLAs, Governance, and Quotas

Vector search is not "just OpenSearch." It just needs to be run as a platform with SLAs, governance, and quotas to control drift, leaks, and out-of-control costs.

February 19, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 1,244 Views · 1 Like

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