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Performance Testing RAG Applications: Complete Engineering Guide

In this blog post, we will see how to perform a performance test on a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application properly, covering both speed and correctness.

July 13, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,110 Views · 1 Like

Jeffrey Microscope for Generating Flame Graphs in Java

Jeffrey Microscope is a deep analyzer for JFR recordings, with a particular focus on flamegraphs generated from stacktrace-based events

July 13, 2026

by Petr Bouda

CORE

· 2,654 Views · 1 Like

Building Reliable Async Processing Pipelines Using Temporal

Temporal replaces complex retry, recovery, and queue-handling logic with durable workflows that automatically recover from failures and resume execution reliably.

July 13, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 2,094 Views · 2 Likes

Goodbye, Skeleton Keys: Why Machine Identity Broke IAM, and What SPIFFE Is Doing About It

The Salesloft Drift breach showed why machine identity has outgrown IAM. Here’s how SPIFFE can reduce token sprawl and trust risk.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,882 Views

Building Cross-Team SLO Contracts for Performance Accountability

Cross-team latency problems are accountability problems, not just profiling problems. An SLO contract is one way to solve this.

July 10, 2026

by Ujjwal Gulecha

· 3,049 Views

Service Industry Evolution: Beyond 99.9% Uptime With Evolving Technology

Learn how AI, observability, predictive maintenance, and resilience are helping service organizations move beyond reactive operations and improve uptime.

July 10, 2026

by Abhishek Sharma

· 3,472 Views · 3 Likes

Slopsquatting: A New Supply Chain Threat From AI Coding Agents

AI agents invent package names that do not exist. Attackers register them as malware. Called slopsquatting. 19.7% of AI-suggested packages are fakes.

July 10, 2026

by Kadir Arslan

· 2,832 Views · 1 Like

Your Codename One App, Now A Native Mac App

Learn how Codename One 7.0.250 brings native macOS app builds, desktop integration, native menus, and improved desktop UX.

July 10, 2026

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 2,417 Views · 1 Like

Database Normalization, ACID Properties, and SCDs: A Comprehensive Guide

Master database normalization, ACID properties, and Slowly Changing Dimensions (Types 0–3) with practical examples and performance best practices.

July 10, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,764 Views · 4 Likes

Exploring A Few Java 25 Language Enhancements

Brief and with practical code examples that raise developers' curiosity and interest in exploring these language enhancements in detail.

July 10, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 2,662 Views · 1 Like

Replacing Direct Storage URLs With a Media Proxy at Scale

Direct storage URLs broke under production constraints, so I replaced them with a UUID-based media proxy for auth, thumbnails, bulk downloads, and storage abstraction.

July 10, 2026

by Deepak Gupta

· 1,357 Views · 1 Like

Top 10 Best Places to Prepare for Your Next Data Engineer Interview

Candidates must demonstrate strong SQL, Python, data modeling, ETL, Spark, data warehousing, and system design expertise while solving real-world data challenges.

July 10, 2026

by Rahul Han

· 2,104 Views · 1 Like

Disaster Recovery as a Governance System

DR failures often occur due to unclear decision ownership. Treat recovery as a governed process with explicit modes, approvals, and evidence.

July 9, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 1,773 Views · 1 Like

Candidate Generation Decides Your Pipeline's Cost, Not the LLM

LLM-powered document intelligence pipelines rarely blow their budgets on summarization. The failure is one layer up: a missing triage and candidate generation layer.

July 9, 2026

by Deepak Gupta

· 2,105 Views · 1 Like

6 Types of AI Orchestration Every Tech Leader Needs to Know

Learn the six types of AI orchestration and how they help teams build reliable, scalable, and production-ready AI systems.

July 9, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

· 2,547 Views · 2 Likes

The AI Reliability Gap: Why Enterprise AI Is Failing Long Before It Reaches Production

Enterprise AI isn't failing because models aren't smart enough. Learn why reliability, governance, and engineering are the real challenges in production.

July 9, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,030 Views · 1 Like

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,283 Views

If You Can Write Acceptance Criteria, You Can Write an AI Routing Policy

Your AI Routing Policy isn't about picking the cheapest model. It's a repeatable team decision assigning each task to the cheapest sufficient path.

July 9, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 1,874 Views · 1 Like

When Build-Time Infrastructure Assumptions Meet Real Hardware

As hardware evolves faster than infrastructure, build-time assumptions become liabilities and runtime adaptability becomes essential.

July 9, 2026

by Arun Anbumani

· 1,807 Views

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,921 Views

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