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Optimizing High-Volume REST APIs Using Redis Caching and Spring Boot (With Load Testing Code)

Cache reads with Redis, use @CachePut for write-through consistency, and prevent stampedes with distributed locks, then prove it works under load with JMeter.

May 18, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 1,718 Views

Manual Investigation: The Hidden Bottleneck in Incident Response

Learn about why engineers are stuck investigating instead of fixing and how AI is changing the investigation process for modern systems.

May 18, 2026

by Brian Kaufman

· 1,567 Views

Observability in Spring Boot 4

Bridge observability gaps in Spring Boot 4 by injecting Micrometer Trace IDs via SQL comments and propagating context through Kafka.

May 15, 2026

by ha dinh thai

· 2,867 Views · 1 Like

AI Agents Expose a Design Gap in Microservices Resilience Architecture

Microservices assume predictable callers. AI agents break this with non-deterministic calls, fan-out, and retries. Here are 5 core assumption breaks and fixes.

May 13, 2026

by Vineet Bhatkoti

· 4,257 Views · 1 Like

The Cost of Knowing: When Observability Becomes the Outage

Observability costs spiral when teams optimize for visibility, not cost. Fix it by making spend visible, sampling aggressively, and cutting low-value data.

May 13, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,184 Views

Monitoring Spring Boot Applications with Prometheus and Grafana

Demonstrates how to expose Spring Boot metrics with Prometheus and build Grafana dashboards to track memory usage and error rates for production-grade Java services.

May 11, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 2,458 Views · 1 Like

The Death of "Text-Only" ChatOps: Why Google's A2UI Matters for DevOps and SRE

Google’s A2UI lets AI agents send secure JSON blueprints that render native, interactive UIs, replacing ChatOps text walls with click-to-act ops workflows.

May 8, 2026

by Deneesh Narayanasamy

· 2,164 Views

Designing Self-Healing AI Infrastructure: The Role of Autonomous Recovery

Distributed AI systems fail faster than humans can respond, making traditional response insufficient. Self-healing systems use telemetry and automation to recover early.

May 7, 2026

by Sayali Patil

· 4,980 Views · 5 Likes

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons From a 400-Module Codebase

Apereo CAS is one of the largest open-source Spring Boot applications in production. Learn about seven battle-tested patterns from its codebase that will improve yours.

May 5, 2026

by Dmitriy Kopylenko

· 2,485 Views · 5 Likes

Goodbye Mono: Why Unity is Switching to CoreCLR

By 2026, Unity 6.8 will replace its legacy Mono fork with CoreCLR and .NET 10. This update eliminates slow Domain Reloads for instant code iteration.

May 4, 2026

by Denis Kondratev

· 3,501 Views

Performance Optimization Techniques in Flutter 3.41 for Mobile App Development

Flutter 3.41 continues to improve rendering efficiency and developer tooling, but building high-performance mobile apps still depends on how developers structure the UI.

May 4, 2026

by Muhammed Harris Kodavath

· 1,744 Views · 2 Likes

Architecting Sub-Microsecond HFT Systems With C++ and Zero-Copy IPC

Building sub-microsecond HFT dispatchers requires bypassing the operating system. Learn how to achieve zero-copy IPC using C++ lock-free structures and memory mapping.

April 30, 2026

by Rodrigo Martinez Pinto

· 4,221 Views · 1 Like

Designing Intelligent AI Systems for Tax Anomaly Detection

A real intelligent AI system automatically detects anomalies, irregularities, and potential fraud by leveraging hybrid architectures and explainable predictive models.

April 29, 2026

by Sowjanya Karri

· 2,208 Views · 1 Like

The Bill You Didn't See Coming

Egress — not compute — drives surprise cloud costs. Fix it by designing for data locality, using compression/caching wisely, and actively monitoring data flows.

April 28, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,287 Views · 1 Like

Your AD Password Policies Are Security Theater

Active Directory password-complexity policies can be bypassed via certain password-set paths, rendering many common controls mere “security theater.”

April 28, 2026

by Alexei Belous

· 2,093 Views

Beyond Caching: Content Delivery Networks

How CDNs boost speed, security, and scalability. A guide for software engineers, professionals, and architects exploring modern web delivery.

April 27, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 2,152 Views

How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Software Security: Machine-Speed Delivery, Shifting Risk, and New Control Points

AI-driven development expands attack surfaces; this article shows how continuous security, zero trust, and runtime enforcement scale DevSecOps in AI pipelines

April 27, 2026

by Apostolos Giannakidis

CORE

· 2,500 Views · 2 Likes

Observability on the Edge With OTel and FluentBit

Master edge observability with OTel and Fluent Bit, leveraging tail sampling, persistent queues, and footprint optimization.

April 23, 2026

by Graziano Casto

CORE

· 2,985 Views

The Pod Prometheus Never Saw: Kubernetes' Sampling Blind Spot

Prometheus sampling gaps are irreducible — reducing the scrape interval just moves the threshold. The Kubernetes watch API eliminates it entirely.

April 23, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,403 Views · 1 Like

What AI Systems Taught Us About the Limits of Chaos Engineering

AI-driven infrastructure is non-deterministic. Chaos testing ensures systems maintain intended behavior under stress, improving reliability and safety.

April 22, 2026

by Sayali Patil

· 8,977 Views · 6 Likes

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