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Spark Performance Deep Dive on Databricks: Shuffle Tuning, Skew Handling, and Z-Ordering With Delta Lake + Unity Catalog

Learn Spark performance tuning on Databricks with shuffle optimization, skew handling, AQE, broadcast joins, and Delta Lake Z-Ordering best practices.

July 31, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 4,721 Views · 2 Likes

Securing Loop Engineering: Six Trust Boundaries for Autonomous Agents

Loop engineering makes agents act repeatedly. Security decides which inputs, credentials, memories, evaluators, and triggers are allowed to influence action.

July 31, 2026

by Jithu Paulose

· 1,845 Views · 2 Likes

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 3,190 Views · 2 Likes

SRE Best Practices for Production Alerting

Learn how to reduce alert noise, improve production monitoring, and create more effective alerts for large-scale distributed systems.

July 30, 2026

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 2,319 Views · 2 Likes

The Trust Surface: The Missing Complement to Attack Surface

Trust Surface framework for measuring risks from trusted identities, credentials, AI agents, and third-party integrations beyond the traditional attack surface.

July 30, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,577 Views · 2 Likes

Your AI Agent Shipped an Answer. But Did It Earn the Right To?

Bad Agentic AI output is rarely a generation problem. It's usually bad retrieval, bad planning, or bad execution upstream. Measure every stage, not just the result.

July 30, 2026

by Sibanjan Das

· 1,746 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 2,448 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

· 2,940 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

· 3,037 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

· 2,600 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

· 9,364 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

· 1,836 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

· 3,250 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

· 3,744 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

· 2,335 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

· 35,055 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

· 2,608 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

· 1,584 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

· 3,380 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

· 3,484 Views · 1 Like

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