Databases Resources

Parquet vs Lance: How Storage Layout Changes the Read Path

Parquet is scan-oriented. Lance is access-oriented. The difference is how much data the reader touches before returning results.

July 6, 2026

by Hitarth Trivedi

· 1,994 Views · 1 Like

Azure Databricks for Scalable MLOps and Feature Engineering With Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow

A practical guide to feature engineering at scale with Azure Databricks, covering distributed data processing with Spark and reliable storage with Delta Lake.

July 6, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,245 Views

LangChain With SQL Databases: Natural Language to SQL Queries

Building an SQL interface that is easy to use for NON-SQL users and provides immediate and accurate answers to business queries.

July 6, 2026

by Varun Joshi

· 1,106 Views · 1 Like

Resilience Lost in the Stack: How Abstraction Layers Silently Mask Distributed Systems’ Topology Awareness

The focus is on distributed systems resilience, specifically the integration gap between application abstractions and high-availability infrastructure layers.

July 3, 2026

by Rithra Ravikumar

· 2,002 Views

Building Your API Gateway From OpenAPI Specs: A Spec-Driven Approach

Generate API gateways directly from OpenAPI specs to eliminate configuration drift, simplify maintenance, and keep your API contract as the single source of truth.

July 3, 2026

by sahil arora

· 1,447 Views

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

· 1,753 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,169 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,276 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

· 2,212 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

· 2,515 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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,935 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

· 3,591 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

· 1,014 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

· 2,132 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

· 1,577 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

· 1,853 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

· 1,703 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

· 1,947 Views · 1 Like