Performance Resources

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

· 3,220 Views

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

· 1,885 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

· 2,090 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

· 2,442 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

· 2,841 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

· 2,339 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

· 8,771 Views · 6 Likes

Algorithmic Circuit Breakers: Engineering Hard Stop Safety Into Autonomous Agent Workflows

Autonomous agents fail by persisting: they retry, replan, and chain tools, increasing risk, cost, and potential blast radius without strict safety controls.

April 22, 2026

by Williams Ugbomeh

· 2,650 Views · 1 Like

Why Angular Performance Problems Are Often Backend Problems

Your Angular app isn’t slow your API is. Fix backend bottlenecks like request waterfalls, overfetching, and slow queries before touching a single Angular component.

April 17, 2026

by Bhanu Sekhar Guttikonda

CORE

· 3,018 Views · 2 Likes

Fine-Tuning of Spring Cache

Caching is a fundamental concept for making web applications faster and more scalable. In the following, I explain how to configure and optimize Spring caching.

April 17, 2026

by Constantin Kwiatkowski

· 2,577 Views · 1 Like

Advanced Auto Loader Patterns for Large-Scale JSON and Semi-Structured Data

Databricks Auto Loader efficiently ingests JSON and semi-structured files into Delta Lake, handling schema evolution and large-scale streaming.

April 16, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,618 Views · 1 Like

Seeing the Whole System: Why OpenTelemetry Is Ending the Era of Fragmented Visibility

By a technology correspondent who has sat through enough war rooms to know that the data you need is almost always in a system nobody thought to connect.

April 16, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 4,509 Views

Stop Burning Money on AI Inference: A Cloud-Agnostic Guide to Serverless Cost Optimization

Most teams waste money on AI inference. Five cloud-agnostic tactics—model routing, prompt trimming, response caching, smart batching, GPU offloading—can cut costs 40‑80%.

April 16, 2026

by Rajesh Kumar Pandey

· 2,790 Views · 1 Like

Optimizing Java Back-End Performance Profiling and Best Practices

Java performance profiling helps identify bottlenecks and apply best practices to improve backend speed, efficiency, and scalability.

April 16, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 3,170 Views · 1 Like

Build High-Performance Web Systems Using Adaptive Edge-Native Performance Governance Framework

Learn how to build high-performance web systems using edge-native architecture, CI/CD performance budgets, and real user monitoring to prevent regressions.

April 14, 2026

by jerald selvaraj

· 2,382 Views · 1 Like

Building an AI-Powered SRE Incident Response Workflow With AWS Strands Agents

Learn how to automate CloudWatch alerts, Kubernetes remediation, and incident reporting using multi-agent AI workflows with the AWS Strands Agents SDK.

April 14, 2026

by Ayush Raj Jha

· 2,934 Views · 1 Like

Boost Your Spark Jobs: How Photon Accelerates Apache Spark Performance

Photon is Databricks’ native C++ engine that bypasses JVM bottlenecks by processing data in vectorized, SIMD-accelerated batches instead of row by row.

April 13, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,937 Views · 1 Like

AI in SRE: What's Actually Coming in 2026

A practical look at where AI genuinely helps SRE teams, and what “AI-powered operations” can realistically deliver in production.

April 13, 2026

by Ashly Joseph

· 4,788 Views · 1 Like

Pushdown-First Modernization: Engineering Execution-Plan Stability in SAP HANA Migrations

In this article, you'll understand the behind-the-scenes of how the HANA SQL and view work during high and low record volume.

April 13, 2026

by Rajaganapathi Rangdale Srinivasa Rao

· 2,285 Views

Enhancing SQL Server Performance with Query Store and Intelligent Query Processing

This article explores how to boost SQL Server performance using Query Store and Intelligent Query Processing to effectively resolve query regressions.

April 10, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 3,816 Views · 2 Likes

The Latest Performance Topics