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A Practical Blueprint for Deploying Agentic Solutions

Learn about how middleware in AI agent frameworks enables request rewriting, tool filtering, and context control — capabilities callbacks alone can’t support.

June 8, 2026

by Abhishek Trehan

· 1,138 Views

The Middleware Gap in AI Agent Frameworks

Most agent frameworks observe model calls and allow rewriting them only after they reach the model, making an understanding of callbacks and middleware essential.

June 8, 2026

by Ninaad Rao

· 1,559 Views · 4 Likes

XMLReader vs XmlExtractKit for Real XML Extraction Tasks in PHP

Compare raw XMLReader with XmlExtractKit on a real extraction task: complex and repeated XML records in, plain PHP arrays out.

June 8, 2026

by Nicholas Volkhin

· 727 Views

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners' Guide for Contributing to Our CNCF Project Website

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers the entry point for developers that want to contribute to a CNCF project website but are not sure how.

June 5, 2026

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 2,551 Views · 1 Like

Skills, Java 17, and Theme Accents

Java 17 is the new Initializr default; generated projects ship an AGENTS.md authoring skill that any AI agent can pick up.

June 5, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 2,218 Views · 1 Like

Prompt Injection Is Real, So I Built a Python Firewall for LLM Pipelines

promptsanitizer is a Python firewall that cleans prompts, inputs, and outputs before risky text reaches or leaves an LLM.

June 5, 2026

by Sai Teja Erukude

· 5,157 Views · 1 Like

From 24 Hours to 2 Hours: How We Fixed a Broken BI System With Apache Airflow

Broken pipelines, inaccurate data, frustrated stakeholders. Here is what we did about it and what I wish I had known before we started.

June 5, 2026

by Chinni krishna Abburi

· 2,136 Views

Observability for Agents and Workflows: Tracing Prompts, Tool Calls, and Business Outcomes End-to-End

Learn how to trace AI agents end to end, from prompts and tool calls to business outcomes, with observability practices for production workflows.

June 5, 2026

by Srinivas Chippagiri

CORE

· 4,372 Views · 1 Like

Is the Data Warehouse Dead? 3 Patterns From Enterprise Architecture That Answer This Question

No, but its role has fundamentally changed. Here is what I have seen work, after building data platforms at enterprise scale across multiple industries.

June 5, 2026

by Nabarun Bandyopadhyay

· 4,069 Views · 1 Like

Spring AI Advisors: Chat Memory, Token Tracking, and Message Logging

Part 3 of a step-by-step tutorial that decorates the implementation with Spring AI advisors to demonstrate how certain production concerns may be addressed.

June 5, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 3,309 Views · 3 Likes

Why Round-Robin Won't Save You: Load Balancing Challenges in Data Streaming Services With Heterogeneous Traffic

Throughput-based load balancing breaks down when streaming messages have heterogeneous processing costs — the fix is balancing on actual per-partition resource usage.

June 5, 2026

by Semyon Slepov

· 2,921 Views

How to Parse Large XML Files in PHP Without Running Out of Memory

Stream huge XML feeds in PHP, extract only matching nodes, and convert them into plain PHP arrays without loading the whole document.

June 5, 2026

by Nicholas Volkhin

· 2,655 Views

Why Your Test Automation Is Always Behind the Code And the Architecture That Fixes It

Most QA teams are stuck in a manual scripting loop. Here's the requirement-driven architecture that eliminates the coverage gap permanently.

June 5, 2026

by Waqar Hashmi

· 2,371 Views

Good Data, Bad Metric: A Mutation Testing Pattern for Analytics Engineering

A mutation testing pattern for analytics metrics that checks if validation catches realistic business logic errors early.

June 4, 2026

by Prateek Arora

· 3,543 Views · 1 Like

Advanced Error Handling and Retry Patterns in Enterprise REST Integrations

Blind retries amplify outages fast. Classify failures first, jitter your backoff, and circuit-break early before cascading.

June 4, 2026

by Anil guntupalli

· 3,139 Views · 1 Like

Persistent Memory for AI Agents Using LangChain's Deep Agents

Most AI agents forget you when the session ends. deepagents fixes that — persistent per-user memory across sessions, no vector database.

June 4, 2026

by Ninaad Rao

· 3,149 Views · 4 Likes

A System Cannot Protect What It Does Not Understand

Inside the system, there is always a boundary between incoming data and stored state, and that boundary is not passive. It acts like a gatekeeper.

June 4, 2026

by Jan Nilsson

· 2,615 Views

Liquid Glass, Material 3, and a Lot of Plumbing

New iOS Modern (liquid glass) and Android Material 3 native themes, how they work in the Playground, in the simulator, and on devices, plus a week of performance and look

June 4, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 2,217 Views · 2 Likes

Building a High-Throughput Distributed Sequence Generator Using the Hi-Lo Algorithm

Design scalable sequential ID generation in distributed systems using the Hi-Lo pattern with Cosmos DB to reduce contention, improve latency, and maintain ordering.

June 4, 2026

by Vikas Mittal

· 2,288 Views

The Hidden Cost of AI Tokens: Engineering Patterns for 10x Resource Efficiency

How we cut our AI API bill from $127K to $13.8K monthly — not by switching providers, but by treating tokens as a first-class architectural concern.

June 4, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 2,197 Views · 1 Like

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