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GraphQL Isn’t Dead Yet, AI Agents Revived It

GraphQL was good at a time, then it simmered off. Is GraphQL about to make a comeback because of AI? Will GraphQL be able to serve better for AI Agents?

August 10, 2026

by Akash Lomas

· 1,201 Views · 2 Likes

A Practical Pipeline for Identifying Sensitive Columns Before Test Data Masking

In this article, I will be introducing a pipeline designed to identify sensitive data columns before masking steps and improve the efficiency of the data masking process.

August 10, 2026

by Siyuan Feng

· 1,394 Views

How We Cut PyFlink Pipeline p99 Latency from 3-5 Seconds to ~500ms

We eliminated per-record Python-side Protobuf parsing and JVM-to-Python crossings by letting Flink's native Protobuf format decode records directly into typed columns.

August 7, 2026

by Arjun Shah

· 2,409 Views · 1 Like

Orchestration Meets MCP: Building Governed Agentic Workflows With Quarkus Flow and AGENTS.md

By combining Quarkus Flow, LangChain4j, MCP tools, and AGENTS.md, developers can construct deterministic, tool-augmented, and enterprise-governed AI agent loops.

August 7, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 2,496 Views

How RAG Cuts Hallucinations in Generative AI Chatbots

RAG cuts chatbot hallucinations by grounding answers in retrieved source data, not model memory. Retrieval quality and evaluation matter more than model size.

August 6, 2026

by Paul Schloss

· 1,687 Views

HTTP QUERY Method Explained: RFC 10008, Ecosystem Adoption, and a Quarkus Implementation

RFC 10008's new QUERY method is safe and cacheable like GET but carries content like POST. This article explains the spec and runs it on Quarkus today.

August 6, 2026

by Hüseyin Akdoğan

CORE

· 2,286 Views · 1 Like

VL-JEPA: End of LLMs? Or the End of How We Think About Them?

Learn how Meta's VL-JEPA challenges the assumptions behind LLMs by shifting AI from next-word prediction to semantic understanding and world modeling.

August 6, 2026

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 1,924 Views · 1 Like

Building an AI Visibility Checker With Cloudflare Workers (Without a Backend)

I built six AI visibility tools without a traditional backend, using one Cloudflare Worker to solve CORS while all scoring logic runs client-side in the browser.

August 6, 2026

by Nena Jasar

· 3,228 Views · 2 Likes

Build Your First Knowledge Graph From Unstructured Documents Using Python

Learn how to convert a small set of unstructured engineering documents into a searchable knowledge graph using Python, spaCy, and NetworkX.

August 6, 2026

by Sriharsha Makineni

· 2,001 Views · 1 Like

AI-Assisted Development Without Chaos

Learn how to govern AI-assisted software development with risk-based reviews, automated validation, security controls, and end-to-end traceability.

August 6, 2026

by Miguel Garcia

CORE

· 3,300 Views · 2 Likes

Orchestrating Trusted Environments: Securing Untrusted Code Execution With Docker and GKE Agent Sandbox

A technical blueprint for building multi-tenant AI platforms by securely executing untrusted code with Docker and GKE Agent Sandbox.

August 6, 2026

by Anuj Ashok Potdar

· 2,221 Views · 1 Like

Practical QA Workflow Showing How Teams Integrate LLM Testing into Real CI/CD Pipelines

Learn how QA teams integrate semantic evaluation, mocked unit tests, toxicity checks, and regression tracking into CI/CD pipelines.

August 5, 2026

by Minkle Kalra

· 1,634 Views · 1 Like

TensorFlow vs PyTorch: The Real Difference Isn’t Accuracy

A direct CNN benchmark on CIFAR-10 shows TensorFlow and PyTorch achieve identical accuracy (~68%). Choose TensorFlow for production and PyTorch for flexibility.

August 5, 2026

by Rakshath Naik

· 1,503 Views

Why LLM Pipelines Fail in Production and How Temporal and Kafka Fix Them

LLM pipelines fail from retries, failures, and long-running workflows; Kafka provides reliable event streaming, while Temporal ensures durable, fault-tolerant execution.

August 5, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 2,737 Views · 2 Likes

Securing AI Agents at the API Layer: 5 Controls That Actually Matter

AI agents don't break your API rules; they expose the ones you never enforced. This article covers five gateway-level controls that bring autonomous agents under control.

August 5, 2026

by Priyanka Jayavel

· 5,164 Views · 1 Like

Agentic RAG: Basic RAG Plus MCP Tool Calls

Classic RAG is great at answering "what does the policy say?" It's terrible at answering "how many leave days do I have left?"

August 4, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,356 Views

I Built a Java Version Manager by Fixing Other Tools' Open Bugs

There is no point in shipping another Java Version Manager unless it is best in class, so I mined the test suites and bug trackers of SDKMAN, jenv, mise, volta, and asdf.

August 4, 2026

by David Lerner

· 3,002 Views · 1 Like