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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

· 2,301 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

· 3,169 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

· 2,505 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

· 4,491 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

· 2,389 Views · 1 Like

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Setup (Password + SSH Key Users) Using Lambda Identity Provider + S3

Deploy a managed AWS Transfer Family SFTP server backed by S3, using a Lambda identity provider for password and SSH-key logins.

March 4, 2026

by Praveen Chaitanya Jakku

· 4,582 Views

Token-Efficient APIs for the Agentic Era

TOON and TRON reduce token consumption by removing JSON's repetitive keys and delimiters, with TOON for tabular data and TRON for schema-stable agent flows.

March 4, 2026

by Vineet Bhatkoti

· 2,338 Views · 1 Like

Network Fundamentals Every Backend Developer Must Know

Learn essential network fundamentals that every backend developer needs to master. Understand TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP protocols, and debugging to build better applications.

March 3, 2026

by Kamal Rawat

· 3,651 Views · 1 Like

AWS Step Functions + AI: Smarter Orchestration in Modern Applications

Learn to combine AWS Step Functions with Generative AI for scalable orchestration, featuring architecture patterns and code examples

March 2, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,723 Views

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug

Cloud systems scale — but unchecked, they can bankrupt you. Measure, automate, and optimize costs to keep your infrastructure resilient and your budget intact.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,203 Views

Hands-On with Azure Local via the Azure Portal

This guide explains how to deploy LocalBox with Azure Bicep and create Azure VMs, covering setup, networking, images, and deployment without physical hardware.

March 2, 2026

by Sanjeev Kumar

· 1,511 Views

Mastering the AWS Well-Architected AI Stack: A Deep Dive into ML, GenAI, and Sustainability Lenses

Use AWS’s ML, GenAI, and Sustainability lenses together to build AI systems that are production-ready, governed, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,789 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,611 Views · 1 Like

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

· 1,847 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,355 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

· 1,016 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,550 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

· 1,487 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

· 1,512 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

· 3,177 Views

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