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Search Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents

The future of AI agents is searchable tool discovery, not hardcoded APIs. MCP and semantic search are turning tools into capabilities agents can find and use at runtime.

July 21, 2026

by sunil paidi

· 1,753 Views

Scaling Row-Level Security With ABAC on Databricks Unity Catalog

Learn how to scale row-level security in Databricks Unity Catalog using a tag-driven ABAC pattern that reduces maintenance and simplifies onboarding.

July 20, 2026

by Sriram Vadlamani

· 2,135 Views

Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026

Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report. Read it. It's the most comprehensive look at AI in production available now.

July 20, 2026

by AJAY DEVINENI

· 2,057 Views · 1 Like

Green Unit Tests Are a Comfort Blanket

A green test suite checks only the inputs you imagined. Point Hypothesis at a parser and it finds the garbage you did not, before production does.

July 20, 2026

by Mikhail Golikov

· 1,661 Views · 1 Like

7 Essential Guardrails for Building AI SRE Agents

AI agents can take over the first minutes of incident response, but only with the right boundaries. Seven guardrails that keep an SRE agent from becoming the outage.

July 20, 2026

by Akhilesh Rao Meesala

· 1,916 Views · 3 Likes

Fix Circular Dependencies in PostgreSQL Row-Level Security With SECURITY DEFINER Functions

Circular RLS policy dependencies in PostgreSQL silently return no rows. Here is why it happens and how SECURITY DEFINER functions fix it.

July 20, 2026

by Lex Mulier

· 1,872 Views

Security Is a Platform Property, Not a Pipeline Step

Security works best when it is built into the platform: Terraform guardrails, CI/CD checks, and golden path templates make secure delivery the default.

July 20, 2026

by Naveen Kalapala

· 2,176 Views

The Agent Security Split: Tool Layer vs Sandbox Layer

Why enterprise agent security requires decoupling the tool layer from the sandbox layer, and how the helmdeck + NVIDIA OpenShell architecture enforces it.

July 20, 2026

by Tosin Akinosho

· 1,604 Views

When Data Quality Checks Pass but the Data Is Still Stale

A pipeline can pass every check and still serve stale data. Measure freshness (event time to publish time), not just validity.

July 20, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 1,720 Views

Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That

Agent systems discard the reasoning behind decisions. Capture workflow IDs, semantic logs, and prompt context before production deployment.

July 17, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 3,418 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 3,181 Views · 2 Likes

Seeding Postgres When Your Schema Has Foreign-Key Cycles

Three strategies for seeding Postgres schemas with foreign-key cycles: nullable two-pass, DEFERRABLE constraints, and schema-aware generators.

July 17, 2026

by Mikhail Shytsko

· 2,760 Views · 3 Likes

AGENTS.md Makes Your Java Codebase AI-Agent Ready

A standardized instruction layer for enabling AI agents to accurately navigate, build, and test applications by enforcing clear architectural and operational constraints.

July 17, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,313 Views · 3 Likes

Every SOC Today Is Answering the Wrong Question

Rethink SOC architecture with Continuous Evidence Graphs that connect identities, sessions, and resources instead of relying on alert timelines.

July 17, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,774 Views

Designing Scalable Containerized Backend Services

Learn to build high-concurrency relational microservices using Python and Docker, focusing on async connection pooling and state management.

July 17, 2026

by Estefanio Fernando

· 2,268 Views · 1 Like

Your Automation Pipeline Is Not a Source of Truth

Pipelines that apply infrastructure changes without a declared source of intent create invisible drift. The pipeline should be the executor, not the authority.

July 17, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 1,969 Views

Anti-Patterns of Microservices Architecture From Real Production Experience

Microservices don't fix complexity; they shift it to the network. They require strict data, runtime, and business autonomy — not just split codebases.

July 17, 2026

by Ivan Balashov

· 2,090 Views

When AI Agents Call Your Microservices: 5 Assumptions That No Longer Hold

Five assumptions break predictable volume, rare duplicates, human-owned auth, fault-only retries, and log-based debugging, and five targeted fixes address each one.

July 16, 2026

by Maryna Klochkova

· 2,643 Views · 2 Likes

Going Stateless: Scaling MCP Servers to Cloud-Native Java and HTTP

The Model Context Protocol has evolved to be entirely stateless over HTTP, removing complex session bottlenecks. Pairing this update with cloud-native Java, Quarkus!

July 16, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,256 Views · 2 Likes

Platform Engineering 2.0: Evolve the Substrate for AI and Agents

As the workload demands for platform teams change to meet the needs of agents, so too must the platform paradigm itself.

July 16, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 15,382 Views · 2 Likes

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