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OBO SSO in Java Applications: Securely Calling Downstream APIs on Behalf of a User

OBO (On-Behalf-Of) allows a Java API to securely call downstream services using the authenticated user's identity instead of the application's identity.

July 3, 2026

by Muhammed Harris Kodavath

· 1,311 Views · 3 Likes

Building an AI Agent That Responds to Real-Time Events With AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3

Build an AI agent that processes real-time events with Amazon Bedrock and a serverless AWS architecture powered by Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3.

July 3, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,546 Views

WebSockets, gRPC, and GraphQL in the Core

A hands-on walkthrough of building a live chat over the new core WebSocket API and typed clients from a GraphQL schema and a proto file.

July 2, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 1,770 Views · 3 Likes

Beyond Root Cause: Building Effective Blameless Postmortems for Cloud-Native Systems

Blameless postmortems focus on learning, not blame, helping teams improve reliability, reduce recurring incidents, and strengthen resilience.

July 2, 2026

by Akshay Pratinav

· 1,684 Views

Dead Letter Queue Patterns in Apache Flink: Handling Poison Messages Without Stopping Your Stream

A poison message can trap a Flink job in a restart loop. Use side outputs, retries, tiered DLQs, durable sinks, and replay jobs to keep the stream running.

July 2, 2026

by Rohit Muthyala

· 1,619 Views

Apache Spark Query Optimization on Databricks: Catalyst, AQE, and Photon Engine

Spark query performance on Databricks is driven by a multi-layer optimization stack: Catalyst transforms SQL into optimized execution plans.

July 2, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,390 Views

One Stolen Key, One Stolen Token: Why Machine Identity Is Cloud-Native's Quietest Crisis — and the Only Fix That Actually Holds

Learn how stolen machine credentials fuel major cloud breaches and how policy-as-code and short-lived identities help stop modern attacks.

July 1, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,694 Views

Mac Native Builds, Live Protocols, And Open Issues Under 350

The open issue count dropped below 350 after a push through the oldest reports, and the same week brought native Mac builds, WebSockets in the core, gRPC and GraphQL inte

June 29, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 879 Views · 1 Like

Selective Deployment in Azure Data Factory: A Practical Blueprint for Safer CI/CD

Implement selective deployment in Azure Data Factory to safely promote individual features without deploying the entire factory state

June 26, 2026

by Sauhard Bhatt

· 1,899 Views · 2 Likes

What Cloud Engineers Actually Need to Know About AI Infrastructure

AI infrastructure isn’t about GPUs. Most issues come from storage, networking, data pipelines. If GPU utilization is low, check the infrastructure first, not the model.

June 26, 2026

by Naveen Kalapala

· 1,284 Views · 1 Like

Code and Connect: MCP + MuleSoft

Understand MCP, AI agents, and assistants, and learn how Model Context Protocol connects AI applications to tools using MuleSoft.

June 25, 2026

by Ajay Singh

· 1,516 Views

REST-Assured Configuration and Specifications: Writing Maintainable API Tests

Learn how to use REST-Assured Configuration, Request Specifications, and Response Specifications to build maintainable API tests.

June 25, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,375 Views

AI, OAuth, and Other Platform APIs in the Core

Deeper AI integration in the framework core, modern authentication via OAuth / OIDC and WebAuthn passkeys driven from the system browser, and a few smaller additions.

June 24, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 1,827 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Asynchronous Communication Between Microservices Using Kafka and Spring Boot

Kafka decouples services, buffers spikes, and routes failures to a DLT. Schemas are contracts; consumers must be idempotent.

June 24, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 2,292 Views · 1 Like

Phantom APIs Are Eating Your Attack Surface, and Most Security Teams Are Still Looking the Other Way

Undocumented phantom APIs are creating hidden security risks. Learn how AI-generated endpoints evade reviews and expand attack surfaces.

June 23, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,759 Views

Connect Existing Data to AI Retrieval: How to Build Production-Ready Search Without Rebuilding Core Systems

Step-by-step tutorial building AI retrieval over existing data systems using a thin layer, covering workflow design, indexing, evaluation, and RAG pipeline.

June 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,996 Views · 1 Like

I Built a VS Code Extension to Debug Azure AI Foundry Agents Without Leaving My Editor

Free VS Code extension for Azure AI Foundry agent traces into your editor as an interactive timeline — see tool calls, token costs, and conversation replays.

June 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,360 Views · 1 Like

How to Set MX Records via API: Automate Email Routing Programmatically

Set MX records automatically with the name.com API instead of by hand. Includes curl examples, Google Workspace routing, and sandbox testing.

June 22, 2026

by Jakkie Koekemoer

· 2,414 Views

Foxit MCP Server: Give AI Agents Direct Access to 30+ PDF Tools via Model Context Protocol

Foxit MCP Server gives any AI agent direct access to 30+ PDF tools for conversion, OCR, merge, and compare via the Model Context Protocol.

June 22, 2026

by Lucien Chemaly

· 1,450 Views

When Valid SQL Was Still the Wrong Answer

A personal project exploring why AI-generated SQL isn't always trustworthy and how semantic context, validation, and governance improve analytics accuracy.

June 22, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 1,209 Views · 1 Like

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