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Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,449 Views · 4 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

· 2,441 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

· 2,402 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 8,009 Views

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

· 34,478 Views · 2 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

· 11,884 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,670 Views · 2 Likes

Designing Secure REST APIs With Spring Boot

Learn how to secure Spring Boot REST APIs with JWT validation, method-level authorization, input validation, rate limiting, CORS, secure logging, and more.

July 27, 2026

by Srivenkata Gantikota

· 2,986 Views · 1 Like

Stop Writing If-Else Spaghetti: Architecting Cleaner Java with the Strategy Pattern

Stop writing messy nested conditionals. Learn how to combine Java Enums, Functional Interfaces, and Spring to build a scalable Strategy Pattern.

July 23, 2026

by Rahul Tewari

· 7,123 Views · 3 Likes

Will AI Keep Us Stuck in 2020 Architectures?

AI coding assistants are deeply fluent in current Spring conventions, which raises a real question: does that lock architecture into 2020-era patterns? It turns out, no.

July 21, 2026

by Daniel Sagenschneider

· 3,260 Views · 1 Like

Reducing CI Execution Time Using Impact-Based Test Selection Across Repositories

CI optimization using Git diff and JGit to selectively run impacted Karate tests, reducing regression execution while preserving safe fallback coverage.

July 21, 2026

by Raakesh Rajagopalan

· 3,704 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

· 2,515 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,413 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

· 2,902 Views · 2 Likes

Your Agent Trusts That Wiki. Should It?

AI agents need more than execution correctness. Instruction provenance must be a first-class security property before privileged actions are trusted.

July 16, 2026

by Abhinav Srivastava

· 4,273 Views

Architecting Autonomous Network Ecosystems: From Reactive Monitoring to Agentic AI Orchestration

A strategic blueprint for integrating sophisticated multi-agent systems designed to drive proactive, zero-touch network operations.

July 15, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,414 Views · 2 Likes

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,337 Views

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

Learn RabbitMQ basics with Spring Boot, including exchanges, queues, routing keys, consumers, and Docker Compose in a hands-on example.

July 8, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,312 Views

Resilience Lost in the Stack: How Abstraction Layers Silently Mask Distributed Systems’ Topology Awareness

The focus is on distributed systems resilience, specifically the integration gap between application abstractions and high-availability infrastructure layers.

July 3, 2026

by Rithra Ravikumar

· 2,123 Views

One Stolen Key, One Stolen Token: Why Machine Identity Is Cloud-Native's Quietest Crisis — and the Only Fix That Actually Holds

Learn how stolen machine credentials fuel major cloud breaches and how policy-as-code and short-lived identities help stop modern attacks.

July 1, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,894 Views

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