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When Snowflake Lies to You: Understanding False Failures in dbt Pipelines

Your pipeline failed. Your code is fine. This article will walk you through why both things can be true at the same time.

June 2, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 2,046 Views

Building a Spring AI Assistant With MCP Servers: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Part 1 of a step-by-step tutorial that integrates an AI assistant with two dedicated MCP servers and sets the foundation for going to production.

June 2, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 1,794 Views · 3 Likes

How SaaS Architectures Break at Scale — and the Engineering Decisions That Prevent It

A practical guide to SaaS architecture decisions that determine whether platforms scale cleanly or collapse under technical debt, security, and growth pressure.

June 1, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,408 Views

Implementing Secure API Gateways for Microservices Architecture

Use Kong as an API gateway to centralize JWT auth, rate limiting, and access control across all microservices, keeping individual services focused on business logic.

May 29, 2026

by Mugunth Chandran

· 3,890 Views · 3 Likes

Contract-First Integration: Building Scalable Systems With Flyway, OpenAPI, and Kafka

Define API, event, and DB contracts upfront to enable parallel development, catch breaking changes in CI, and maintain consistent, reliable integrations.

May 29, 2026

by Wallace Espindola

· 2,579 Views

Building a Zero-Cost Approval Workflow With AWS Lambda Durable Functions

Learn how to build an ETL pipeline with human-in-the-loop approval that costs nothing while waiting — and see real cost data from processing 1,000 documents.

May 28, 2026

by Harpreet Siddhu

· 4,384 Views · 1 Like

AI Paradigm Shift: Analytics Without SQL

An AI-native analytics agent sits between users and the data warehouse, translating natural-language questions into governed SQL or Python workflows and dashboards.

May 28, 2026

by Haricharan Shivram Suresh Chandra Kumar

· 2,341 Views

Master-Class: Understanding Database Replication (Single, Multi, and Leaderless)

This article walks through the different database replication strategies, provides practical insights, identifies common pitfalls, and explains how to overcome them.

May 28, 2026

by Piyush Gupta

· 1,719 Views

Stateless JWT Auth Microservice Architecture With Spring Boot 3 and Redis Sentinel

Design a stateless JWT auth service with Spring Boot 3, Redis caching, and Sentinel for high availability, faster token validation, and reduced DB load.

May 27, 2026

by Erkin Karanlık

· 3,608 Views · 1 Like

Programmatic Brand Extraction: Pulling Logos, Colors, and Assets from Any URL

OpenBrand is an open-source library that extracts structured brand assets from any URL - available as an npm package, API, or AI agent skill.

May 27, 2026

by Yixing Jiang

· 2,101 Views

You Don't Get to Retrofit Trust: Why API Security Must Be Designed In, Not Bolted On

A field-level examination of how one startup got it right — and what the rest of the industry keeps getting catastrophically wrong.

May 27, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,201 Views

Setting Up a Data Catalog With Azure Purview and Collibra: What Three Attempts Taught Me

Setting up a data catalog isn’t just a tool problem. My work with Azure Purview and Collibra showed success depends on governance, metadata, and adoption.

May 27, 2026

by Kuladeep Sandra

· 4,044 Views

Beyond Partitioning and Z-Order: A Deep Dive into Liquid Clustering for Unity Catalog Managed Tables

Liquid Clustering replaces rigid partitioning and Z-Order with adaptive clustering in Unity Catalog, improving performance with less maintenance.

May 26, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,600 Views · 1 Like

Designing API-First EMR Architectures in .NET: Enabling Modular Growth in Compliance-Driven Systems

API-first .NET architecture lets EMR platforms evolve safely — enforcing compliance, stabilizing contracts, and isolating UI changes from critical business logic.

May 26, 2026

by Ronak Pavasiya

· 1,445 Views

Scaling Cloud Data Automation: A Practical Guide to Open Table Formats

Leverage open table formats with cloud automation and scalable analytics to build reliable, high-performance data platforms.

May 25, 2026

by Sandeep Batchu

· 3,262 Views

One Query, Four GPUs: Tracing a Distributed Training Stall Across Nodes

One SQL query across 4 GPU nodes found a straggler in under a second using eBPF fleet fan-out, no central collector needed.

May 25, 2026

by Ingero Team

· 3,585 Views

Liquibase: Database Change Management and Automated Deployments

Liquibase automates schema versioning and deployment via changelogs, enabling version-controlled, rollback-ready migrations with tracking for DevOps pipelines.

May 22, 2026

by Suman Basak

· 1,914 Views

How Retry Storms Crash API-Led Systems: Bounded Reliability Patterns for Distributed Architectures

Unbounded retries and autoscaling can turn minor latency into cascading outages. API reliability must be bounded and load-aware to prevent retry storms.

May 22, 2026

by Manjeera Chanda

· 2,532 Views

AWS Managed Database Observability: Monitoring DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift Beyond CloudWatch

Three AWS managed databases, three dashboards, and one cascade you can only trace by hand. This guide fills the gap CloudWatch leaves open.

May 22, 2026

by Damaso Sanoja

· 3,978 Views · 1 Like

Why We Chose Iceberg Over Delta After Evaluating Both at Scale

Delta often performs better for Spark workloads, while Iceberg tends to be stronger for a multi-engine environment. The right choice depends on your platform use case.

May 21, 2026

by Kuladeep Sandra

· 2,434 Views

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