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Unit Testing SQL Queries Across Multiple Database Platforms

A practical guide with SQL Testing Library and type-safe contracts using Pydantic models that validate types, constraints.

January 14, 2026

by Gurmeet Saran

· 8,712 Views · 3 Likes

How to Secure a Spring AI MCP Server with an API Key via Spring Security

Discover how to protect your Spring AI MCP server with an API key, including clear instructions, sample code, and recommended security practices.

January 14, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 3,983 Views · 7 Likes

Revisiting the 7 Rs of Cloud Migration with Real-World Examples

An in-depth analysis of cloud migration strategies, examining how different approaches apply to individual scenarios using real-world enterprise examples.

January 13, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 1,666 Views · 1 Like

Optimizing Financial Data Pipelines: Accelerating OneStream-to-Snowflake Exports by 85%

A case study on optimizing financial data pipelines by refactoring legacy SQL batch inserts into a "Stage and Copy" architecture.

January 13, 2026

by Sridhar Mannava

· 976 Views · 3 Likes

MCP Servers Are Everywhere, but Most Are Collecting Dust: Key Lessons We Learned to Avoid That

Teams rushing to build MCP servers are discovering that enthusiasm doesn’t translate into usefulness. This article unpacks why and how to make your MCP server valuable.

January 13, 2026

by Thomas Johnson

CORE

· 2,670 Views · 4 Likes

Supercharge AI Workflows on Azure: Remote MCP Tool Triggers + Your First TypeScript MCP Server

Remote MCP in Azure Functions exposes serverless tools for AI assistants, enabling scalable, cloud-native workflows with Azure services and bindings.

January 13, 2026

by Swapnil Nagar

· 2,127 Views · 1 Like

The Night We Split the Brain: A Telling of Control & Data Planes for Cloud Microservices

Split control and data planes with versioned snapshots and four contracts — routing, policy, limits, release — for safer rollouts and reliably boring systems.

January 12, 2026

by Bharath Kumar Reddy Janumpally

· 8,367 Views · 2 Likes

Why PostgreSQL Vacuum Matters More Than You Think

Learn how dead tuples slow queries, when to use autovacuum or manual Vacuum, and how tuning improves large or high traffic tables.

January 12, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,515 Views · 3 Likes

Why Encryption Alone Is Not Enough in Cloud Security

Practical Lessons from Real-World Scenarios That Clearly Demonstrate Why Relying on Encryption Alone Cannot Fully Protect Cloud Workloads

January 9, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 5,748 Views · 1 Like

Mastering Fluent Bit: Developer Guide to Telemetry Pipeline Routing (Part 12)

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers telemetry pipeline routing mechanisms, tag-based, conditional, and label-based, with hands-on examples for developers.

January 9, 2026

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 1,597 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build and Deploy an AI Agent on Kubernetes With AWS Bedrock, FastAPI and Helm

Learn how to build, containerize, and deploy a lightweight, cloud-native AI agent on Amazon EKS using FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, Docker, and Helm.

January 9, 2026

by Chandrasekhar Rao Katru

· 3,593 Views · 6 Likes

Multi-Region Apache Kafka using Synchronous Replication for Disaster Recovery With Zero Data Loss (RPO=0)

Kafka isn’t one-size-fits-all. Choose between self-managed, serverless, or BYOC deployments. New RPO=0 options now enable zero data loss for real-time applications.

January 9, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,633 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Containerized Quarkus API and a CI/CD Pipeline on AWS EKS/Fargate with CDK

This project demonstrates a production-ready approach to deploying a containerized Quarkus API on AWS EKS/Fargate, leveraging Infrastructure as Code through the AWS CDK.

January 8, 2026

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 2,381 Views · 1 Like

Handling Logging After Migrating UiPath to Automation Cloud

Learn about logging challenges after migrating UiPath Orchestrator to Automation Cloud and robot-level log ingestion as a scalable observability approach.

January 7, 2026

by RAVINDRA REDDY MADIREDDY

· 2,559 Views · 2 Likes

AWS Bedrock vs Azure OpenAI vs Gemini API: A Practical Comparison

Bedrock = multi-model flexibility, Azure OpenAI = Microsoft-centric enterprise, Gemini = long-context and multimodal with free tier.

January 7, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 4,897 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Idempotency in Distributed Spring Boot Applications Using MySQL

Implementing idempotency in distributed Spring Boot applications using MySQL row-level locking and transactions to handle concurrent requests safely.

January 7, 2026

by Balakumaran Sugumar

· 5,289 Views · 7 Likes

Automated Deployment Using a CI/CD Pipeline (Mule 4 | CloudHub 2.0)

This tutorial demonstrates automated deployment using a CI/CD pipeline with Mule 4. It shows how code pushed to a Git repository triggers deployment automatically.

January 7, 2026

by ARINDAM GOSWAMI

· 2,734 Views · 1 Like

Orchestrating Retail-Scale Data on Google Cloud

In this post, learn how to build scalable, reliable retail data pipelines with Google Cloud: Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer in action.

January 7, 2026

by Balakrishna Aitha

· 1,191 Views

Metadata, Not Data Volume, Is the Real Bottleneck in Modern Data Lakes

In Apache Iceberg data lakes, growing snapshots and manifests often make metadata resolution — not data scanning — the primary performance bottleneck.

January 6, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 3,359 Views

Understanding Parquet Scans: How Readers Skip Work and Stay Fast

Parquet accelerates scans by skipping data through metadata driven pushdowns. This article explains how the main mechanisms work in practice.

January 6, 2026

by Hitarth Trivedi

· 2,508 Views · 1 Like

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