Microservices Resources

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

· 3,223 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

· 7,512 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

· 3,311 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

· 3,888 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

· 2,585 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

· 2,516 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

· 3,007 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

· 4,332 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

· 4,575 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

· 2,445 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

· 2,415 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

· 2,231 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

· 3,999 Views

Architecting Trustworthy AI: Engineering Patterns for High-Stakes Environments

This post presents three domain-agnostic engineering patterns for building AI systems that remain safe even when the model is wrong.

June 29, 2026

by Sujay Puvvadi

· 1,757 Views

Building Production-Safe Agentic Remediation With Docker MCP Gateway: Lessons From 43% to 100% Accuracy

We built an AI Docker remediation system on MCP Gateway. First version: 43% correct. After 9 engineering fixes: 100%. Here's what changed.

June 29, 2026

by Mohammad-Ali Arabi

· 2,618 Views

Implementing Asynchronous Communication Between Microservices Using Kafka and Spring Boot

Kafka decouples services, buffers spikes, and routes failures to a DLT. Schemas are contracts; consumers must be idempotent.

June 24, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 3,516 Views · 1 Like

Who Owns the Data Stack?: How AI Is Reshaping Ownership, Architecture, and Accountability Across Teams

Build AI-native data systems with clear ownership, semantic contracts, and governance. Learn how accountability, retrieval, and data quality shape AI behavior.

June 24, 2026

by Miguel Garcia

CORE

· 1,587 Views · 2 Likes