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Retries Are a Denial-of-Wallet Attack Waiting to Happen

How uncontrolled retries can crash systems and inflate costs — and how jitter, circuit breakers, and idempotency prevent self-inflicted failures.

March 9, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,160 Views · 1 Like

The Inner Loop Is Eating The Outer Loop

The technical limitations that created the divide between the inner and outer loops are being solved just in time for agentic workflows to make merging them a necessity.

March 9, 2026

by Arjun Iyer

· 2,544 Views

Square, SumUp, Shopify: Data Streaming for Real-Time Point-of-Sale (POS)

POS systems are transforming into real-time, AI-driven platforms, fueled by mobile payments, Kafka, and Flink to empower every retail merchant.

March 9, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 3,277 Views

Best Practices to Make Your Data AI-Ready

In this article, I share best practices for building a high-quality data management framework to support AI initiatives.

March 9, 2026

by Mykhailo Kopyl

· 4,633 Views · 1 Like

Why Low Latency Financial Systems Still Favor Determinism

Low-latency financial systems value predictable worst-case behavior over speed. Near execution, control, determinism, and debuggability outweigh abstraction.

March 9, 2026

by Krishna Kandi

· 1,645 Views · 1 Like

2026 Developer Research Report

The results are in from DZone's 2025 Community Survey. See what developers are building, learning, and adopting in this year's report.

March 6, 2026

by Carisse Dumaua

· 4,450 Views · 5 Likes

Modern State Management: Signals, Observables, and Server Components

Signals simplify local UI state, observables handle async data flows, and server rendering improves performance by offloading work to the backend.

March 6, 2026

by Bhanu Sekhar Guttikonda

CORE

· 3,036 Views · 2 Likes

Software Testing in LLMs: The Shift Towards Autonomous Testing

Software testing is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades in the LLM era. Intelligent testing and self-verifying agents redefine testing across SDLC pipelines.

March 6, 2026

by Kathiresan Jayabalan

· 3,038 Views

Hands-On With Kubernetes 1.35

Tested K8s 1.35's four key features on Azure VM: zero-downtime pod resizing, gang scheduling, structured auth, and node capabilities. All scripts and configs on GitHub.

March 6, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,034 Views · 1 Like

Failure Handling in AI Pipelines: Designing Retries Without Creating Chaos

AI systems require disciplined retry strategies. By applying bounded backoff policies, teams can prevent retry storms and control cost amplification.

March 6, 2026

by Aditya Gupta

· 2,537 Views

Reducing Daily PM Overhead With a Chat-Based AI Agent

An experiment in reducing project management overhead by removing small but costly routines around Jira updates, status clarifications, and daily reporting.

March 6, 2026

by Evgeniy Tolstykh

· 2,133 Views

When Million Requests Arrive in a Minute: Why Reactive Auto Scaling Fails and the Predictive Fix

Learn how to handle flash crowds with predictive, schedule-aware autoscaling, readiness checks, and tier-based capacity to prevent downtime and lag.

March 6, 2026

by Shalini Sudarsan

· 2,390 Views

Fabric's Resource Governance and Scaling Pitfalls

An overview of Microsoft Fabric scaling. Teams that optimize, isolate workloads, and monitor capacity can avoid performance issues and operational costs.

March 6, 2026

by Vishwa Kishore Mannem

· 1,929 Views

The A3 Handoff Canvas

The A3 Handoff Canvas helps teams use AI responsibly by defining task splits, inputs, outputs, validation, failure rules, and records for repeatable workflows.

March 6, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,347 Views

Deterministic AI With OpenSymbolicAI

An agentic solution that follows the PlanAndExecute approach can leverage the power of LLMs while executing deterministic code to provide reliable results.

March 6, 2026

by Karthik Viswanathan

· 2,396 Views

Implementing Sharding in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide

PostgreSQL sharding distributes data by key across servers for horizontal scale. This guide shows how to shard a Sales table with practical SQL.

March 5, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 4,244 Views · 2 Likes

42% of AI Projects Collapse in 2025 — The Battle-Tested Framework Wall Street Uses

Adopt the Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) framework: a banking-proven risk management system with three oversight layers. Result: 22% faster AI deployment + fewer failures.

March 5, 2026

by Nidhi Sharma

· 1,410 Views · 3 Likes

Consensus in Distributed Systems: Understanding the Raft Algorithm

Raft consensus simplifies reliability in distributed systems; essential for software engineers and architects making fault‑tolerant design decisions.

March 5, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 1,870 Views · 1 Like

Why “End-to-End” AI Will Always Need Deterministic Guardrails

End-to-end AI is probabilistic and prone to hallucinating unsafe physical actions. True safety requires wrapping these models in deterministic guardrails.

March 5, 2026

by Nishant Bhanot

· 1,515 Views · 2 Likes

Best OpenLens Alternatives for Kubernetes Visibility in 2025

OpenLens is a solid Kubernetes IDE, but as environments scale, teams need alternatives with better multi-cluster visibility and governance.

March 5, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,019 Views

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