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The Agent Protocol Stack: MCP vs. A2A vs. AG-UI

Three protocols are shaping how AI agents interact with tools, other agents, and users. Here's what each one does, how they fit together, and when to reach for which.

May 15, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 4,342 Views

The "Zombie API" Attack: Why Your Old Integrations Are Your Biggest Security Risk

Zombie APIs are forgotten, outdated endpoints left active but unmonitored, creating easy backdoors for hackers to steal sensitive data.

May 14, 2026

by Siddharth Jetly

· 2,486 Views · 1 Like

How to Test a DELETE API Request With REST-Assured Java

This tutorial demonstrates how to test DELETE requests using Rest-Assured Java for API testing, including examples of deleting data.

May 14, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,228 Views

Lease Coordination Under Serializable Isolation in CockroachDB

Designing scalable lease coordination in CockroachDB, focusing on key distribution, concurrency, and reducing transaction conflicts in multi-region systems.

May 14, 2026

by Nishant Jain

· 1,734 Views

Navigating the Complexities of AI-Driven Integration in Multi-Cloud Environments: A Veteran’s Insights

AI is transforming multi-cloud integration with real-time, decentralized, secure systems — improving compliance, APIs, and scalability across industries.

May 13, 2026

by Abhijit Roy

· 2,726 Views · 1 Like

Spec-Driven Integration: Turning API Sprawl Into a Governed Capability Fleet for AI

Alpha release of a new integration approach that translates your existing data and APIs into standardized APIs, MCP, and agent skills for AI.

May 13, 2026

by Kin Lane

· 1,976 Views

AWS Kiro: The Agentic IDE That Makes Specs the Unit of Work

You describe a feature, and Kiro generates structured requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md files first, then implements against them.

May 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 3,988 Views · 2 Likes

How to Test a PATCH API Request With REST-Assured Java

This tutorial demonstrates how to test PATCH requests using REST Assured in Java for API testing, including examples of partial data updates.

May 13, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 5,032 Views

Has AI-Generated SQL Impacted Data Quality? We Reviewed 1,000 Incidents

We analyzed 1,000 data pipeline incidents across 500+ environments and found that code-related failures still account for ~10% of all data quality issues.

May 12, 2026

by Lior Gavish

· 3,061 Views

DuckDB for Python Developers

DuckDB is an embeddable analytical database that runs inside your Python process with zero setup. It can query CSV files, Parquet, and pandas DataFrames.

May 12, 2026

by varun joshi

· 2,534 Views

Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) for NL2SQL: A Rigorous Evaluation Framework on Oracle Database

Used MCP to evaluate LLM-generated SQL on Oracle: baseline vs MCP, comparing semantics, order, strings, and EXPLAIN PLAN on 500-query TPC-H.

May 8, 2026

by Sanjay Mishra

· 2,621 Views

RAG Done Right: When to Use SQL, Search, and Vector Retrieval and How To Combine Them

RAG failures stem from retrieval, not models. Replace one-size-fits-all vector search with a decision framework, hybrid flow, and guardrails for reliable systems.

May 8, 2026

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 3,736 Views · 9 Likes

How to Test PUT API Request Using REST-Assured Java

This tutorial demonstrates how to test PUT requests with REST Assured in Java for API testing, including code examples to update data.

May 7, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,308 Views · 3 Likes

When Retries Become a Denial-of-Wallet

Retries can silently DDoS your wallet — amplifying failures into massive costs. Without limits, jitter, and circuit breakers, “resilience” becomes self-inflicted damage.

May 6, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 4,514 Views · 1 Like

Why PostgreSQL CDC Breaks in Production

PostgreSQL CDC often fails after WAL reading: snapshot handoff gaps, unsafe checkpoints, bad ordering, and retry logic can silently corrupt replicated data.

May 6, 2026

by Dmitry Narizhnykh

CORE

· 1,943 Views

The Hidden Latency of Autoscaling

Autoscaling isn’t real elasticity — it’s slow, reactive, and can mislead. Use demand metrics, keep warm capacity, and pair with circuit breakers & observability.

May 5, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,332 Views

Engineering LLMOps: Building Robust CI/CD Pipelines for LLM Applications on Google Cloud

Master LLMOps on GCP by automating prompt evaluation, model deployment, and monitoring with Cloud Build and Vertex AI for robust AI apps.

May 5, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,379 Views

Setting Up Claude Code With Ollama: A Guide

Claude Code is a terminal-based AI coding assistant by Anthropic that can integrate with Ollama for local model inference.

May 5, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 4,648 Views · 3 Likes

Modernization Is Not Migration

CI/CD-driven modernization of data platforms, improving release speed, observability, and reliability through automation, parallelization, and job-level telemetry.

May 5, 2026

by vaibhav Sharma

· 2,209 Views

Mastering Kubernetes to Maximize Your Cloud Potential

Understanding Kubernetes architecture through seven critical layers: storage, compute, networking, observability, security, dev tools, and CI/CD.

May 4, 2026

by Jaswinder Kumar

· 2,196 Views · 2 Likes

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