Performance Resources

Why Front-End Performance Issues Are Commonly Back-End Issues

A significant portion of the front-end performance issues that arise are not due to the frontend at all but to the back-end APIs, dependencies, and infrastructure.

March 5, 2026

by Satyam Nikhra

· 2,629 Views · 1 Like

A Transaction-Grade Performance Blueprint for Spring Boot FinTech Microservices (Tracing, Histograms, and Kubernetes)

A practical guide for improving FinTech microservice latency and reliability on Kubernetes using OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and SLOs.

March 4, 2026

by Sibasis Padhi

· 3,431 Views · 1 Like

Lessons From Our Network Crash (And What I Wish I'd Known Sooner)

Network administration done right requires data-driven strategies and real-time insights that prevent problems before they affect users.

March 4, 2026

by Sascha Neumeier

· 1,301 Views

Network Fundamentals Every Backend Developer Must Know

Learn essential network fundamentals that every backend developer needs to master. Understand TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP protocols, and debugging to build better applications.

March 3, 2026

by Kamal Rawat

· 4,060 Views · 1 Like

Why Your "Stateless" Services Are Lying to You

“Stateless” systems aren’t. Hidden state — caches, pools, SDK retries, kernel buffers — breaks deployments and scaling. Make it explicit, externalized, and observable.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,670 Views

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug

Cloud systems scale — but unchecked, they can bankrupt you. Measure, automate, and optimize costs to keep your infrastructure resilient and your budget intact.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,485 Views

Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures

Retries can amplify failures into outages. Use backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency, load shedding, and observability to keep systems stable under pressure.

February 27, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,867 Views · 1 Like

The Hidden Cost of Custom Logic: A Performance Showdown in Apache Spark

A deep dive into PySpark UDF performance, showing why standard Python UDFs slow pipelines and when to use Pandas UDFs or native Spark functions instead.

February 26, 2026

by Abhilash Rao Mesala

· 2,135 Views

A Unified Framework for SRE to Troubleshoot Database Connectivity in Kubernetes Cloud Applications

Troubleshoot Kubernetes database connectivity using a layered diagnostic framework and achieve rapid root-cause identification and production stability.

February 25, 2026

by Prakash Velusamy

· 3,466 Views

Performance-Centric Platform Engineering: Shared Responsibility, Guardrails, and Tenant Isolation

Performance becomes predictable when platforms embed guardrails, autoscaling, isolation, observability, and continuous testing.

February 24, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce, Ph.D

CORE

· 1,470 Views · 2 Likes

Observability Without Cost Telemetry Is Broken Engineering

Treating cost as a first-class signal lets teams spot financial regressions early and make informed infrastructure trade-offs before cloud spend becomes a surprise.

February 20, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,338 Views · 1 Like

Hurley: A High-Performance HTTP Client and Load Testing Tool Engineered in Rust

Technical architecture, capabilities, and use cases of hurley, a project developed in Rust that functions as a general-purpose HTTP client and a performance testing tool.

February 20, 2026

by Dursun Koç

CORE

· 2,113 Views

Production-Ready Observability for Analytics Agents: An Open Telemetry Blueprint Across Retrieval, SQL, Redaction, and Tool Calls

Standardize analytics agent observability with OpenTelemetry spans for policy, retrieval, SQL, verification, redaction, tools, capturing proof without sensitive payloads

February 18, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 2,681 Views · 1 Like

How to Build Permission-Aware Retrieval That Doesn't Leak Across Teams

Permission-aware retrieval ensures that the assistant uses only allowed information. A context graph enforces access control to prevent cross-team leakage.

February 18, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 2,039 Views · 1 Like

When Kubernetes Forgets: The 90-Second Evidence Gap

Kubernetes heals too fast, losing diagnostic context. Engineers reconstruct incidents manually. Time-bounded queries, correlation, and intent tracking preserve evidence.

February 18, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,680 Views · 2 Likes

Automatic Data Correlation: Why Modern Observability Tools Fail and Cost Engineers Time

Your observability stack is complete. So why does debugging still take hours, sifting through data across eight different tools?

February 16, 2026

by Thomas Johnson

· 1,685 Views · 1 Like

Building a Self-Correcting GraphRAG Pipeline for Enterprise Observability

Self-correcting GraphRAG uses LangGraph agents to autonomously traverse knowledge graphs and search into a deterministic, multi-hop reasoning system.

February 16, 2026

by Vamshidhar Parupally

· 3,191 Views

AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases: Comparing S3 Vector Store, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and Neptune for Cost and Performance

In this article, we compare the performance of AWS OpenSearch and S3 Vector Store to find the optimal balance between cost and speed.

February 12, 2026

by Artem Tokarev

· 3,211 Views

Golden Paths for AI Workloads - Standardizing Deployment, Observability, and Trust

Golden Paths enable scalable AI by standardizing deployment, observability, drift detection, and governance as built-in platform defaults.

February 12, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce, Ph.D

CORE

· 2,841 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Self-Healing Observability System with AWS Bedrock AgentCore

This article explains how to build a self-healing observability system with AWS Bedrock AgentCore using AI agents to analyze and remediate infrastructure issues.

February 9, 2026

by Lakshmi Narayana Rasalay

· 1,976 Views

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