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Essential Monitoring Metrics for Cloud Native Systems: Part 1

Master cloud-native observability. Learn essential monitoring metrics — from Golden Signals to saturation — to keep your distributed systems reliable.

March 18, 2026

by Gaurav Gaur

CORE

· 3,400 Views

The Invisible Bleed: A Field Guide to Cloud Costs That Hide in Plain Sight

Healthy cloud systems can still hemorrhage money. This article outlines FinOps strategies, from tagging and anomaly detection to CI/CD cost guardrails.

March 18, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,933 Views

How Deterministic Rules Engines Improve Compliance and Auditability

Make your rules engine deterministic, store structured decision traces, and use change data capture (CDC) to monitor discrepancies before they become a production issue.

March 17, 2026

by Ridhima Mahajan

· 3,405 Views

When Similarity Isn’t Accuracy in GenAI: Vector RAG vs GraphRAG

Vector RAG is good for semantically similar retrieval, but GraphRAG adds missing entity relationships and reasoning required for deterministic entity grounding.

March 17, 2026

by Birendra Kumar

· 3,622 Views · 1 Like

Zero Trust, Build High Scale TLS Termination Layer

Automated TLS termination for thousands of custom domains on HAProxy. DigiCert HTTP DCV, internal KMS, sync agents, HAProxy runtime API for zero-downtime cert updates.

March 16, 2026

by Ramesh Sinha

· 6,273 Views

Agentic AI: Autonomous AI Agent With PostgreSQL

Agentic AI builds goal-driven systems with planning, tools, memory, and state. This guide shows how to build one with PostgreSQL.

March 16, 2026

by Damil Shahzad

· 3,836 Views · 3 Likes

How Data Integrity Breaks in Enterprise Systems and How Architects Prevent It

Data integrity breaks when systems fall out of sync; architects prevent it with strong transactions and resilient integrations.

March 13, 2026

by Suresh Kurapati

· 3,711 Views

Extending Java Libraries with Service Loader

How to dynamically use Java’s Service Loader to discover and load SPI implementations at runtime for plugin-like extensions.

March 13, 2026

by Dominik Przybysz

· 3,682 Views · 3 Likes

Understanding Custom Authorization Mechanisms in Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync

This article compares the use of custom Lambda authorizers in AWS API Gateway and AWS AppSync, focusing on their respective approaches to API authorization.

March 13, 2026

by Leslie Daniel Raj

· 4,443 Views · 2 Likes

Google Cloud AI Agents With Gemini 3: Building Multi-Agent Systems That Actually Work

Build and scale multi-agent systems using Gemini 3 on Google Cloud Vertex AI, featuring code and architecture for technical experts.

March 12, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 5,679 Views · 2 Likes

DPoP: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Bearer Tokens Aren't Enough

Bearer tokens grant access to anyone who holds them. DPoP fixes this by binding each token to a cryptographic key pair: every request must include a signed proof.

March 12, 2026

by Hüseyin Akdoğan

CORE

· 3,567 Views

AWS EventBridge as Your System's Nervous System: The Architecture Nobody Talks About

EventBridge handles our 4M daily events. When Stripe changed APIs, we spent $1,200 and 4 days instead of $180K and 6 weeks.

March 11, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 6,487 Views · 1 Like

Building a Unified API Documentation Portal with React, Redoc, and Automatic RAML-to-OpenAPI Conversion

Learn how to build a modern static API documentation portal that supports both OpenAPI 3.x and RAML 1.0 specifications with automatic conversion.

March 11, 2026

by Sreedhar Pamidiparthi

· 5,589 Views

Optimizing Data Loader Jobs in SQL Server: Production Implementation Strategies

Accelerate SQL Server loads with bulk ops, partitioning, columnstore, minimal logging, smart batching, and tuned server settings, reducing production load times by 3–10x.

March 10, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 3,258 Views

Beyond Django and Flask: How FastAPI Became Python's Fastest-Growing Framework for Production APIs

How the async-first framework captured 40% of new Python developers in 2025 and why enterprise teams are making the switch in early 2026

March 9, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 5,101 Views

How to Use AWS IAM Identity Center for Scalable, Compliant Cloud Access Control

This article explains how AWS IAM Identity Center centralizes access control and helps teams manage secure, compliant access across AWS environments.

March 9, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,268 Views

Hands-On With Kubernetes 1.35

Tested K8s 1.35's four key features on Azure VM: zero-downtime pod resizing, gang scheduling, structured auth, and node capabilities. All scripts and configs on GitHub.

March 6, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,118 Views · 1 Like

When Million Requests Arrive in a Minute: Why Reactive Auto Scaling Fails and the Predictive Fix

Learn how to handle flash crowds with predictive, schedule-aware autoscaling, readiness checks, and tier-based capacity to prevent downtime and lag.

March 6, 2026

by Shalini Sudarsan

· 2,466 Views

Implementing Sharding in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide

PostgreSQL sharding distributes data by key across servers for horizontal scale. This guide shows how to shard a Sales table with practical SQL.

March 5, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 4,358 Views · 2 Likes

Why Front-End Performance Issues Are Commonly Back-End Issues

A significant portion of the front-end performance issues that arise are not due to the frontend at all but to the back-end APIs, dependencies, and infrastructure.

March 5, 2026

by Satyam Nikhra

· 2,331 Views · 1 Like

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