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Building a Secure MCP Server for File Processing: Auth, Rate Limiting, and Idempotency

Building an MCP server that processes files introduces problems a typical read-only API doesn't have. Here's what mattered.

September 22, 2026

by Peter Ndumia

· 1,911 Views · 2 Likes

Architecting for <1s Latency: Managing Eventual Consistency in Distributed Search Platforms

To maintain sub-second search freshness, logistics systems must actively manage eventual consistency across Kafka ordering, search indexing, and cache invalidation.

September 22, 2026

by Dhruv Goel

· 1,950 Views · 2 Likes

Valkey: Bringing Key-Value Databases to Enterprise Java

Valkey provides high-performance key-value storage for Enterprise Java, with portable APIs and flexible persistence through Eclipse JNoSQL.

September 22, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 1,941 Views · 2 Likes

When an iOS Retry Executes an Agent Twice: Building Effectively-Once Tool Workflows With LangGraph, MCP Tasks, Kafka, and App Attest

Stable operation IDs prevent iOS retries from duplicating agent tools across LangGraph, MCP Tasks, Kafka, and App Attest.

September 21, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 1,957 Views · 3 Likes

Your Application Has an Unindexed Attack Surface. Do You Know What’s in It?

Learn how forgotten internet-facing assets expand your attack surface and how continuous asset discovery, inventory, and ownership can reduce security risks.

September 21, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,530 Views · 2 Likes

Edge AI: Why Inference Is Moving Away From the Cloud

Edge inference thrives on-device for real-time, private AI. Advances in hardware and compression cut latency and costs, pushing AI away from the cloud.

September 21, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,081 Views · 3 Likes

MCP vs REST/HTTP API vs Kafka: The Architect's Guide to Agentic AI Integration

MCP, Kafka, and REST APIs are not the same: this comparison maps each to the right layer of your agentic AI architecture.

September 18, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 3,777 Views · 1 Like

Exploring the DBMS_DEVELOPER Package: JSON Metadata for Oracle Objects

Learn how Oracle Database 23ai’s DBMS_DEVELOPER package uses JSON metadata and ETags to simplify database schema documentation, migration, and change tracking.

September 18, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,236 Views · 1 Like

The New API Contract Is Probabilistic: Building Reliable Systems Around Unreliable Model Outputs

AI model outputs are unpredictable, so developers must use validation, testing, monitoring, and safe fallbacks to build reliable systems around them.

September 17, 2026

by Micheal Chukwube

· 2,322 Views · 1 Like

Understand the Sidecar Pattern by Deploying n8n to AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy n8n Task Runners as AWS Fargate sidecars for isolated code execution, independent resources, and scalable workflow automation.

September 17, 2026

by Iyanuoluwa Ajao

· 2,892 Views · 2 Likes

Architecting Production AI Across Clouds: Patterns That Decide System Survival

In production, enterprise AI rarely fails at the model. It fails in the architecture around it. Here are the cross-cutting patterns that work.

September 16, 2026

by VenkataSrinivas Kantamneni

· 2,878 Views · 1 Like

Real-Time Vehicle Tracking With Neo4j, Databricks Lakebase, and OpenStreetMap

Build a real-time fleet operations dashboard using Neo4j Aura for the road network graph, Lakebase for live vehicle positions, and Lakehouse for historical analytics.

September 15, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,321 Views · 2 Likes

dbt Meets Apache Flink: One Workflow for Data Engineers

dbt meets Apache Flink: one SQL workflow for data engineers across Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and real-time streaming pipelines on Confluent Cloud.

September 15, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,892 Views · 1 Like

Prompt Caching: Overriding Tokenization for Faster and More Cost-Effective AI

Prompt caching allows AI systems to reuse the processing of unchanged token sequences, resulting in faster inference, lower latency, and reduced costs.

September 11, 2026

by Ravi Ranjan Shahi

· 3,549 Views · 1 Like

Replacing JSON With Protobuf in Your Microservice Mesh: A Zero-Downtime Migration Blueprint

JSON hurts at scale. Protobuf cuts payload size by ~72%, reduces CPU overhead, and enforces typed contracts. However, it needs careful schema management.

September 11, 2026

by Bansidhar kadiya

· 3,235 Views · 3 Likes

Member Spotlight: Abhishek Sharma

Meet DZone community member Abhishek Sharma as he shares his tech journey, continuous learning, enterprise architecture insights, and life beyond work.

September 11, 2026

by Dominique Pugh

· 3,095 Views · 2 Likes

How to Test GET API Requests With Playwright TypeScript

Learn how to test GET API requests using Playwright with TypeScript, including params, headers, timeouts, and status code validation.

September 10, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,931 Views · 5 Likes

Pipelines on Fire: Why Your CI/CD Tools Are the New Cyber Battlefield

Learn why CI/CD pipelines are becoming major security targets and how to protect runners, secrets, AI tools, and software supply chains.

September 9, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,963 Views · 2 Likes

Bringing Graph Analytics to Snowflake With Neo4j

Run Neo4j graph algorithms directly on your Snowflake data to uncover insights about connectivity, criticality, and failure impact that SQL alone can't easily surface.

September 9, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 2,493 Views · 1 Like

RavenDB Launches Quill to Bring Production AI Agents to Enterprise SQL Systems, No Migration Required

The new context layer connects to existing SQL databases and builds a governed, model-agnostic foundation for AI agents running on live operational data, in weeks rather than years.

September 9, 2026

by Technology Wire

· 2,828 Views · 2 Likes

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