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I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,315 Views · 2 Likes

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,848 Views · 4 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

CORE

· 2,953 Views · 1 Like

What Is Agentic Test Creation and How Is It Different from AI Test Generation?

Every testing tool now advertises AI test generation. But many of them are just ChatGPT with a QA skin. Here’s how to tell the difference.

July 30, 2026

by John Vester

CORE

· 2,501 Views · 1 Like

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 9,044 Views · 2 Likes

Real-Time Risk Signals for AI Agent Authorization

Static auth checks don't react mid-session. Wire SSF risk events to your PDP and block agents the moment something looks wrong.

July 29, 2026

by Vatsal Gupta

· 1,805 Views · 2 Likes

This One Spring Data JPA Pattern Cleaned Up to 3 Years of Repository Debt

Stop adding repository methods every time a filter changes. JPA Specifications let you compose queries cleanly at runtime.

July 29, 2026

by Ramesh Bellamkonda

· 3,142 Views · 2 Likes

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

A practical framework for graduated autonomy in self-healing infrastructure, covering three remediation tiers and policy-driven blast-radius controls for cloud SRE teams.

July 29, 2026

by Shraddhaben Gajjar

· 3,574 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 2,219 Views · 2 Likes

What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker

At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.

July 29, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,898 Views · 3 Likes

The Lethal Trifecta Is Hiding in Your MCP Server

MCP makes it trivial to give an agent the "lethal trifecta," so one poisoned input can leak your secrets. Prompts can't stop it; a deterministic broker can.

July 29, 2026

by Veera Ravindra DIVI

· 2,472 Views · 1 Like

AI Agents Are Exceeding Permissions at Scale. Here Are the Queries Your SIEM Is Missing.

Catch AI agents exceeding their permissions with copy-paste SIEM, Kubernetes, and cloud-audit queries you can run this sprint, most in under an hour.

July 29, 2026

by Nik Kale

· 1,519 Views · 1 Like

The Java Story: The Official Documentary Is Here

This traces Java’s evolution from Oak to a global software platform, revealing its impact on open source, standards, engineering, and the community behind it.

July 29, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 3,252 Views · 2 Likes

How to Protect Your AI Agents from Prompt Injection Attacks: An Active Defense Approach

Stop just blocking prompt injections. Learn how to use MIRAGE to trap AI agents in honeypots and force them to burn their own API tokens.

July 29, 2026

by Victoria Fonareva

· 3,396 Views · 1 Like

Why Standard Test Automation Misses the Failures That Matter in AI Agent Systems

Evaluation has real costs (inference spend, latency, storage) — budget for it explicitly, and treat every user-reported regression as a permanent new test case.

July 28, 2026

by Dimple Bajaj

· 2,823 Views · 4 Likes

From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.

July 28, 2026

by DZone Staff

· 12,090 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 3,114 Views · 4 Likes

AI-Native Developers: Why Fast Authoring Is Creating Bad Debuggers

AI lets juniors write code instantly, but leaves them unable to debug. With coding now being easy, debugging is the ultimate human superpower.

July 28, 2026

by Rakshath Naik

· 1,974 Views · 1 Like

Building Reliable Data Pipelines for Enterprise Analytics Using PySpark

Build reliable PySpark pipelines with techniques for data validation, schema evolution, transformation design, partition management, and operational monitoring at scale.

July 28, 2026

by Harsh Patel

· 1,968 Views · 1 Like

Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 2: The Guardrails

Learn how production AI agents use tool contracts, authorization scopes, audit trails, and risk-based human approval to safely take autonomous actions.

July 28, 2026

by Ram Ravishankar

· 2,339 Views · 1 Like

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