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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

· 1,719 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

· 1,982 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

· 2,836 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

· 2,146 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

· 1,475 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

· 1,093 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

· 1,752 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

· 1,623 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

· 1,692 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

· 3,400 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

· 1,785 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

· 1,381 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

· 1,759 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

· 964 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,725 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

· 2,442 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,360 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

· 3,964 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

· 2,758 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,699 Views

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