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Getting Started with Gemini Agents: Build a Data-Connected RAG Agent using Vertex AI Agent Builder

Build a production-ready RAG agent using Gemini and Vertex AI Agent Builder to query your private data with high accuracy and speed.

March 31, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,399 Views

Queues Don't Absorb Load — They Delay Bankruptcy

Queues hide overload. Without back-pressure, limits, and scaling, lag just grows until failure. Bound queues, alert on lag, fail fast, and plan capacity.

March 30, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,913 Views · 2 Likes

Scaling Kafka Consumers: Proxy vs. Client Library for High-Throughput Architectures

Scaling Apache Kafka consumption requires new patterns; proxy layers and client libraries offer practical solutions for high-throughput.

March 30, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,590 Views · 3 Likes

A Practical Guide to Multi-Agent Swarms and Automated Evaluation for Content Analysis

This guide builds a Strands multi-agent content analysis system — powered by Ollama Llama 3.1 — with LLM-as-judge scoring for correctness and relevance.

March 30, 2026

by Anil Malakar

· 1,799 Views · 1 Like

The "Bus Factor" Risk in MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite

Ever wonder what would happen to an open source database project in case its main developers “get hit by a bus?" That’s what the “bus factor” measures.

March 30, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte

CORE

· 3,351 Views · 2 Likes

Data-Driven API Testing in Java With REST Assured and TestNG: Part 5

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with REST Assured using Excel Files and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

March 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,425 Views · 2 Likes

A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Embedded Analytics

Embedded analytics implementations deliver in-context insights within everyday tools—while introducing integration, governance, and performance challenges for developers.

March 30, 2026

by Philip Piletic

CORE

· 2,536 Views

Beyond Static Checks: Designing CI/CD Pipelines That Respond to Live Security Signals

CI/CD pipelines miss runtime risk. Learn how to integrate real-time security signals into deployment decisions for safer, context-aware releases.

March 30, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 1,563 Views

Migrating Legacy Microservices to Modern Java and TypeScript

Incremental strangler fig migration — containerize first, route traffic gradually, and validate with shadow mode testing.

March 30, 2026

by Venkata Sandeep Dhullipalla

· 2,983 Views

Feature Flag-Based Rollout: A Safer Way to Ship Software

Feature flags let teams release code without exposing it to everyone at once. They make rollouts safer, faster, and easier to control, especially in production.

March 30, 2026

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 2,424 Views · 1 Like

Removing the Experimental Bottleneck: Fast Parallel Data Loading for ML Research

Transformed 5-hour data loads into 1-2 minutes using Oracle's APPEND+PARALLEL+NOLOGGING, enabling researchers to go from 1-2 experiments/day to 2-3/hour.

March 30, 2026

by Sanjay Mishra

· 2,518 Views

Deploying Java applications on Arm64 with Kubernetes

Tuning Java on Kubernetes (Arm64): align CPU/memory limits with JVM, use container-aware settings, optimize placement, and leverage OS tuning for better performance.

March 30, 2026

by Dave Neary

· 2,109 Views · 1 Like

AI Maturity Is the New Differentiator: Why Operationalization Matters More Than Model Capability

LLM advantage is fading. Enterprises must shift to operational maturity with governance, reliability, measurement, and modular architecture to scale AI in production.

March 30, 2026

by Frederic Jacquet

CORE

· 2,251 Views

Azure Cosmos DB Playground: Learn and Experiment With Queries in Your Browser

Interactive, browser-based Azure Cosmos DB playground to learn, prototype, and test SQL queries instantly — no setup, installation, or cloud costs required.

March 30, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 1,205 Views

The Aggregate Reference Problem

How can one aggregate reference another aggregate’s data while preserving strict ownership boundaries? That is the aggregate reference problem.

March 30, 2026

by Jan Nilsson

· 1,271 Views

Scaling AI Workloads in Java Without Breaking Your APIs

Learn how to scale AI inference workloads in Java using async and event-driven patterns, maintaining stable APIs while improving performance and resilience.

March 27, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 4,268 Views · 3 Likes

The Hidden Cost of Legacy Infrastructure in Asset-Heavy Game Development

Today’s software and game dev bottleneck is legacy pipelines. Modern VCS gives studios the edge to scale and thrive in a high-velocity, agent-driven era.

March 27, 2026

by Sasha Medvedovsky

· 2,845 Views

The Hidden Cost of Flaky Tests in Test Automation

Flaky tests erode developer trust, slow delivery, and waste engineering time. Learn why flakiness happens and how teams restore reliability in test automation.

March 27, 2026

by Sancharini Panda

· 2,810 Views