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Memory-First Indexes in SQL Server 2025: Redefining Performance for Hybrid Workloads

Learn how SQL Server 2025 memory-first indexing can accelerate hybrid transactional and analytical workloads by reducing disk I/O and latency.

September 9, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,499 Views · 3 Likes

Databricks Lakebase: Give Your Agent a Branch, Not Your Production Database

Databricks Lakebase introduces database branching, giving each agent an isolated workspace to safely experiment, test changes, and merge validated updates.

September 8, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 4,575 Views · 1 Like

Prevent Duplicate API Calls With Idempotency: Patterns That Work

A timeout doesn't prove failure. Reserve an Idempotency-Key before any side effect, back it with a unique DB index, and replay the recorded outcome on every retry.

September 8, 2026

by Manjeera Chanda

· 1,774 Views · 2 Likes

Handling Large API Responses Without Freezing the Client: A Practical Architecture With Temporal, Kafka, and RAG

Use Temporal for orchestration, Kafka for chunk processing, object storage for payloads, and RAG to retrieve relevant data without overwhelming clients.

September 4, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,865 Views · 3 Likes

Your Spark Job Isn't Slow Because of Bad Code. It's Slow Because of the Wrong Join

Apache Spark job performance issues are frequently caused by improper join strategies leading to excessive data shuffling, rather than suboptimal code.

September 3, 2026

by Syed Siraj Mehmood

· 2,248 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Python API Client That Doesn’t Fall Apart When the API Misbehaves

Build a safer Python API client with timeouts, selective retries, exponential backoff, jitter, and better handling of rate limits and temporary failures.

September 3, 2026

by Ally Garcia

· 2,371 Views · 4 Likes

Extracting Entities and Relationships From Engineering Documents With spaCy

Learn how to extract domain-specific entities and relationship triples from engineering documents using spaCy, custom entity rules, and Python.

September 2, 2026

by Sriharsha Makineni

· 2,566 Views · 3 Likes

3D Air Quality Maps With Neo4j, Python, and R

Fetch AQI data from IQAir, store it in Neo4j, then visualize it with pydeck, Leaflet and R, plus Cypher queries showing what graph-native analysis looks like.

September 2, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 2,223 Views · 1 Like

Stop Hardcoding Database Checks: Building a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework

Decouple validation from code. Learn how to build a dynamic, metadata-driven data quality framework using Databricks, Snowflake, and Python.

September 1, 2026

by Kshitish Nath

· 2,366 Views · 1 Like

How to Detect AI-Generated Images in C# Using an API

Build a C# workflow that analyzes uploaded images for signs of AI generation and turns the returned risk score into a practical application decision.

September 1, 2026

by Brian O'Neill

CORE

· 3,387 Views · 2 Likes

Natural IDs in Your Database. I Am Telling You for the Last Time!

What about natural keys in the database? If I have a column that uniquely identifies a record, should I use it as the Primary Key?

August 31, 2026

by Mikhail Polivakha

· 2,399 Views · 2 Likes

Securing Database Connections With Mutual TLS

Mutual TLS strengthens database security by authenticating both clients and servers, reducing the risks associated with password-based authentication.

August 31, 2026

by Rahul Roy

· 2,936 Views · 1 Like

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database

Learn how I built an open-source SQL query analyzer that generates dialect-correct index recommendations across multiple dialects.

August 31, 2026

by Sudhakararao Sajja

· 2,068 Views · 1 Like

Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Six risk-driven patterns from a Fortune 50 insurer's first WebSphere-to-AWS migration — and why decoupling decided the outcome.

August 28, 2026

by Alka Nimje

· 2,734 Views · 4 Likes

When Guest Access Becomes an Attack Surface: A Technical Analysis of the City-Forum Campaign

Learn how attackers enumerated Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow portals, and how defenders can detect, audit, and prevent guest-access abuse.

August 27, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,722 Views · 1 Like

Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin

A Java UDF that runs sentiment analysis directly inside the Neo4j database engine — no external APIs, no application-layer round-trips, callable from any Cypher query.

August 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,351 Views · 3 Likes

Designing Rayfall: One Expression Language for a Columnar Database

How scalar evaluation, vector operations, lambdas, and relational queries can share one language without hiding expressions from the optimizer.

August 25, 2026

by Anton Kundenko

· 3,246 Views · 4 Likes

Tail-Based Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector: Keeping the Traces That Matter

Tail-based sampling keeps error and slow traces instead of a random slice, but it only works if all trace spans reach the same collector. Here's the fix.

August 25, 2026

by Mateen Ali Anjum

· 2,280 Views · 2 Likes

Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Isolating PHI Workloads Without Slowing Down Engineering Teams

Multi-account AWS architecture enforces PHI workload isolation at the boundary level — making access control provable rather than arguable during security reviews.

August 24, 2026

by Garik H

· 2,266 Views · 1 Like

From Chat Completions to Responses: Why Is OpenAI Upgrading Its Core API?

The Responses API simplifies complex agent workflows by unifying context, tool calls, and outputs, while Chat Completions remains suitable for simpler chat use cases.

August 24, 2026

by Jake Tao

· 1,175 Views · 2 Likes

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