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How Open Source Builds the Soft Skills Technical Leaders Need

Open source gives software engineers a real environment to practice soft skills like communication, influence, negotiation, trust, empathy, and collaboration.

August 27, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,722 Views · 2 Likes

The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions?

The AI Delegation Lifecycle helps teams govern AI work through six stages: decide, route, hand over, define done, inspect, and roll up.

August 27, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,071 Views · 2 Likes

How to Connect a Foundry IQ Knowledge Base to LangGraph Over MCP

This guide walks through the setup, MCP response, Entra token refresh, and how to avoid conflicts between LangGraph’s planner and Foundry IQ’s agentic retrieval planner.

August 26, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 6,985 Views · 3 Likes

Part 1: Building Governed MCP Tool Services With Quarkus LangChain4j and Goose

Build governed, cloud-native Java MCP tool services for Goose agents using Quarkus LangChain4j, Java 25, and Jakarta Bean Validation.

August 26, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,940 Views · 4 Likes

Building a Software Factory With AI Agents and Workflows

In this article, we’ll explore how to build a complete software factory from scratch, leveraging AI agents to transform the entire software development lifecycle.

August 26, 2026

by Pavan Belagatti

CORE

· 3,402 Views · 2 Likes

Pure Headless vs Hybrid Headless CMS: A Practical Decision Framework

Pure headless favors developer control; hybrid headless gives editors more flexibility. The right choice depends on how much content work requires engineering.

August 26, 2026

by Alex Vakulov

CORE

· 3,738 Views · 2 Likes

Working With Spreadsheets in Java: A Practical Overview

Working with Excel in Java isn’t just about reading and writing cells. Here’s how to choose the right tool for your use case.

August 26, 2026

by Hawk Chen

CORE

· 3,555 Views · 3 Likes

The Folly of Tokenmaxxing or Reinventing the Wheel

AI transformation is often reduced to token usage, tool rollouts, and pilots. Learn five Agile laws that explain why AI adoption fails and what to measure instead.

August 26, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,601 Views · 2 Likes

Understanding RabbitMQ Exchange Types in Spring Boot

This blog delves into various RabbitMQ exchange types used within a Spring Boot application, highlighting examples and configurations.

August 26, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,933 Views · 3 Likes

The 2026 Observability Audit: Separating Single Vendor Silos From Community Innovation

Learn how to evaluate open-source observability projects, compare vendor contributions, and identify healthy community-driven projects beyond marketing claims.

August 26, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 3,018 Views · 2 Likes

Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

Use Docker to create a local lakehouse environment that mirrors production, while improving data engineering workflows, Spark testing, and CI reliability.

August 25, 2026

by Aniket Abhishek Soni

· 2,566 Views · 4 Likes

How Open Source Builds the Hard Skills Technical Leaders Need

Learn how open source helps software engineers build hard skills, strengthen technical judgment, and develop the expertise needed for technical leadership.

August 25, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,292 Views · 4 Likes

Designing Rayfall: One Expression Language for a Columnar Database

How scalar evaluation, vector operations, lambdas, and relational queries can share one language without hiding expressions from the optimizer.

August 25, 2026

by Anton Kundenko

· 3,310 Views · 4 Likes

Tail-Based Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector: Keeping the Traces That Matter

Tail-based sampling keeps error and slow traces instead of a random slice, but it only works if all trace spans reach the same collector. Here's the fix.

August 25, 2026

by Mateen Ali Anjum

· 2,349 Views · 2 Likes

The Code-Volume Delusion: Rethinking Engineering Velocity in the AI Era

AI is shifting the engineering bottleneck downstream, requiring leaders to prioritize PR cycle times, CI/CD stability, and architectural health.

August 25, 2026

by Rupesh Dabbir

· 3,506 Views · 2 Likes

Demystifying Thread Hopping With Swift 6.2

Swift 6.2 fixes unexpected thread hopping in async code with Approachable Concurrency. This article explains the new execution model.

August 25, 2026

by Nikita Vasilev

· 1,340 Views · 2 Likes

LLM Judgment for Document Pipelines: Bounded Pools and Typed Verdicts

Use LLMs to judge a bounded pool of documents, returning typed relevance that make pipeline decisions easier to inspect, monitor, and improve.

August 25, 2026

by Deepak Gupta

· 2,117 Views · 2 Likes

The New Technical Debt: Working Code No One Can Explain

AI can help code work faster, but unexplained code becomes technical debt when it needs to be changed, scaled, or trusted.

August 25, 2026

by Asim Rais Siddiqui

· 1,931 Views · 3 Likes

Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Isolating PHI Workloads Without Slowing Down Engineering Teams

Multi-account AWS architecture enforces PHI workload isolation at the boundary level — making access control provable rather than arguable during security reviews.

August 24, 2026

by Garik H

· 2,315 Views · 1 Like

Text Analysis Without a Backend: Replacing an LLM Call With Intl.Segmenter and 60 Lines of JavaScript

Build deterministic browser-based text tools instead of LLM APIs to reduce cost, latency, privacy risks, and nondeterministic results.

August 24, 2026

by Kevin Brown

· 2,968 Views · 1 Like

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