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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

· 5,062 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

· 1,652 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

· 3,983 Views · 5 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

· 2,469 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Config-Driven SOAP/REST Integration Layer: One Service, Many Protocols

Learn how to build protocol-agnostic middleware that supports SOAP and REST integrations with configurable authentication and customer-specific transformations.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

· 2,282 Views

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

· 1,878 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

· 2,689 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 2,597 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

· 2,994 Views · 1 Like

Will AI Keep Us Stuck in 2020 Architectures?

AI coding assistants are deeply fluent in current Spring conventions, which raises a real question: does that lock architecture into 2020-era patterns? It turns out, no.

July 21, 2026

by Daniel Sagenschneider

· 3,273 Views · 1 Like

Spec-Driven Development Renamed an Old Problem; It Didn't Solve It

Spec-driven development improves AI coding, but keeping specs in sync remains the same challenge teams have faced with docs and READMEs for years.

July 21, 2026

by Sam K

· 3,540 Views · 1 Like

Mitigating Cache Stampedes in Dynamic API Translation Using Java 21 Virtual Threads

Building a dynamic API translation proxy that leverages Java 21 Virtual Threads and Redisson distributed locking to safely execute AI-driven schema mapping.

July 17, 2026

by Aniruddha Chatterjee

· 3,770 Views · 3 Likes

How to Build a Brand Monitoring Dashboard With SerpApi and Python

Track your brand across Google News, YouTube, and online discussions in a single Python dashboard with data from SerpApi.

July 14, 2026

by Tomas Murua

· 3,736 Views · 1 Like

API Facade vs. Orchestration vs. Eventing, Now With AI in the Loop

Discover architectural patterns for integrating AI into enterprise systems without sacrificing governance, reliability, observability, or loose coupling.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 3,056 Views · 1 Like

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

Learn RabbitMQ basics with Spring Boot, including exchanges, queues, routing keys, consumers, and Docker Compose in a hands-on example.

July 8, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,328 Views

AI Won't Keep You from Hitting the Scalability Wall

AI coding tools can dramatically speed up integration builds — but speed isn't the bottleneck. The real issue is the long-term ownership cost.

July 8, 2026

by Bru Woodring

· 1,839 Views

HTTP QUERY in Java: The Missing Method for Complex REST API Searches

HTTP QUERY gives Java REST APIs a cleaner way to handle complex searches with request bodies, avoiding long URLs and POST misuse while keeping reads explicit.

July 6, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,368 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

· 1,581 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

· 1,917 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

· 2,302 Views · 1 Like

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