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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

· 2,901 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

· 2,751 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

· 3,190 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

· 3,319 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

· 3,941 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

· 3,959 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

· 3,796 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

· 3,129 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

· 2,433 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

· 1,919 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 2,491 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

· 1,679 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

· 2,113 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

· 2,392 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

· 2,593 Views · 4 Likes

Why Push-Based Systems Fail at Scale — and How Hybrid Fan-Out Fixes It

Push-based systems work until celebrity-scale traffic creates massive fan-out pressure. Modern platforms solve this using hybrid architectures.

July 1, 2026

by Jayapragash Dakshnamurthy

· 1,381 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

· 1,085 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

· 2,178 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

· 1,872 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

· 2,110 Views · 1 Like

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