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The Retry Budget Pattern: How to Stop Retry Storms in API-Led and Microservice Systems

Unbounded retries amplify outages instead of preventing them. A retry budget caps retries at a fraction of real traffic, keeping failures contained.

August 5, 2026

by Manjeera Chanda

· 1,814 Views · 1 Like

Securing AI Agents at the API Layer: 5 Controls That Actually Matter

AI agents don't break your API rules; they expose the ones you never enforced. This article covers five gateway-level controls that bring autonomous agents under control.

August 5, 2026

by Priyanka Jayavel

· 5,182 Views · 1 Like

Building an Async Validation API With AWS Bedrock Agents and Serverless Architecture

Build a serverless async API that uses AWS Bedrock Agents to validate business forms against 60+ rules in under 60 seconds, without blocking the user.

August 5, 2026

by Rohit Nagpal

· 1,772 Views

Designing a Reliable Data Synchronization Layer: Idempotency, Ownership, and Observability

Four design decisions for a sync layer you can trust: single ownership, idempotent writes, cheap change detection, observability.

August 4, 2026

by Mike Beentjes

· 4,318 Views · 5 Likes

Five Layers Between Your AI Agent and a Production Outage

Single-layer AI guardrails hit a 40% false-positive rate. My five-layer architecture on live AWS achieved 94% accuracy and 0% false negatives on destructive operations.

August 3, 2026

by Manvitha Potluri

· 1,304 Views · 1 Like

Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging an AWS SigV4 Request for a GCP access token to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

August 3, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,310 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,630 Views · 4 Likes

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 2,650 Views · 2 Likes

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,149 Views · 1 Like

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,660 Views · 3 Likes

This One Spring Data JPA Pattern Cleaned Up to 3 Years of Repository Debt

Stop adding repository methods every time a filter changes. JPA Specifications let you compose queries cleanly at runtime.

July 29, 2026

by Ramesh Bellamkonda

· 2,983 Views · 1 Like

How I Built a Star Wars Grogu Product Research Agent With Codex, Lark, and SerpApi

Built with Codex, SerpApi, OpenAI, and Lark, this lightweight AI agent compares Amazon products across the U.S. and Japan using live search data.

July 29, 2026

by Magenta Qin

· 2,018 Views · 1 Like

Microservices Architecture in Production: 7 Engineering Decisions That Determine Success or Failure

Microservices succeed when they're designed with clear service boundaries, reliable communication, independent data ownership, and strong operational practices.

July 28, 2026

by Mahipal Nehra

· 2,834 Views · 3 Likes

Why SQL Server Applications Break on PostgreSQL and How Compatibility Layers Fix It

SQL Server migrations break at the application layer. A compatibility layer like Babelfish keeps T-SQL running while the engine moves to PostgreSQL.

July 27, 2026

by Minesh Chande

· 3,106 Views · 1 Like

Building a Voice-Controlled Graph Assistant With Neo4j, LiveKit, and OpenAI

Build a voice assistant that lets you ask natural-language questions to a Neo4j graph database and hear the answers spoken back.

July 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 2,825 Views

From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026

Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.

July 24, 2026

by Nathan Smith

· 2,689 Views · 1 Like

API Testing Frameworks: How to Pick the Right One and Actually Use It Well

Learn how to choose the right API testing framework, including REST Assured, Supertest, pytest, Postman, Karate, and Keploy, for better API test automation.

July 23, 2026

by Himanshu Mandhyan

· 3,124 Views · 1 Like

Tracing the Agentic Loop: Monitoring Multi-Round-Trip MCP Calls With OpenTelemetry

The latest MCP spec mandates W3C tracing. Use Quarkus and OpenTelemetry to easily visualize disjointed, multi-round-trip AI agent workflows in production.

July 22, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,314 Views · 1 Like

Reducing CI Execution Time Using Impact-Based Test Selection Across Repositories

CI optimization using Git diff and JGit to selectively run impacted Karate tests, reducing regression execution while preserving safe fallback coverage.

July 21, 2026

by Raakesh Rajagopalan

· 3,860 Views

Scaling Row-Level Security With ABAC on Databricks Unity Catalog

Learn how to scale row-level security in Databricks Unity Catalog using a tag-driven ABAC pattern that reduces maintenance and simplifies onboarding.

July 20, 2026

by Sriram Vadlamani

· 2,577 Views

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