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How to Secure Secrets in CI/CD Pipelines

CI/CD pipelines are essential, but they carry risks if not designed correctly. This post discusses common security mistakes and shares practices to avoid them.

May 11, 2026

by Sandeep Kumar Khandelwal

· 1,828 Views · 1 Like

How AI Is Rewriting Full-Stack Java Systems: Practical Patterns with Spring Boot, Kafka and WebSockets

Decouple heavy processing with Spring Boot, Kafka, and WebSockets: AI consumers analyze events asynchronously, while WebSockets deliver real-time insights to users.

May 8, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 2,856 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

· 2,015 Views

Identity Security in the Age of Agentic AI: What Engineers Need to Know

A practical guide to why traditional identity systems break with agentic AI, and what engineers need to architect differently.

May 7, 2026

by Ashly Joseph

· 2,134 Views · 1 Like

Securing CI/CD Pipelines Against Supply Chain Attacks: Why Artifacts and Dependencies Matter More Than Ever

This article explains how placing the right security controls turns CI/CD from an implicit trust engine into a verifiable delivery system.

May 7, 2026

by Ifeoma Eleweke

· 2,455 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

· 4,745 Views · 4 Likes

Why AI Forces a Rethink of Everything We Know About Software Security

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

May 7, 2026

by Apostolos Giannakidis

CORE

· 2,770 Views · 1 Like

How to Test PUT API Request Using REST-Assured Java

This tutorial demonstrates how to test PUT requests with REST Assured in Java for API testing, including code examples to update data.

May 7, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,144 Views · 3 Likes

Comparing Top Gen AI Frameworks for Java in 2026

A practical, in-depth comparison of the top Generative AI frameworks for Java in 2026: Genkit Java, Spring AI, LangChain4j, and Google ADK

May 7, 2026

by Xavier Portilla Edo

CORE

· 3,639 Views · 2 Likes

Effective Engineering Feedback: Software Testing

Software testing is a feedback system that drives better decisions. Learn how effective feedback, CLEAR principles, and testing levels improve quality and teamwork.

May 6, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 6,033 Views · 1 Like

How Reactive Scaling Drains Your Cloud Budget Without Warning

Reactive auto-scaling wastes cloud budgets on idle servers. Learn to replace it with a predictive C# and ML.NET engine that forecasts latency and scales proactively.

May 6, 2026

by Rodrigo Martinez Pinto

· 2,187 Views · 1 Like

Security in the Age of MCP: Preventing "Hallucinated Privilege"

Prevent prompt injection in AI agents: default to read-only, require human approval for changes, and authenticate every tool call with end-user zero-trust permissions.

May 6, 2026

by Nikita Kothari

· 2,327 Views

From Monolith to Microservices: Practical Lessons From Real System Modernization

Microservices add flexibility and scalability but increase complexity. Learn key challenges in observability, DevOps, and data management when moving from monoliths.

May 5, 2026

by Jayapragash Dakshnamurthy

· 1,997 Views · 2 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

· 2,361 Views · 5 Likes

Engineering LLMOps: Building Robust CI/CD Pipelines for LLM Applications on Google Cloud

Master LLMOps on GCP by automating prompt evaluation, model deployment, and monitoring with Cloud Build and Vertex AI for robust AI apps.

May 5, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,999 Views

Setting Up Claude Code With Ollama: A Guide

Claude Code is a terminal-based AI coding assistant by Anthropic that can integrate with Ollama for local model inference.

May 5, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 3,348 Views · 3 Likes

Modernization Is Not Migration

CI/CD-driven modernization of data platforms, improving release speed, observability, and reliability through automation, parallelization, and job-level telemetry.

May 5, 2026

by vaibhav Sharma

· 1,862 Views

How We Diagnosed a Hidden Scheduler Failure in a Docker Swarm Cluster Serving 2 Million Users

A real production incident in a Docker Swarm cluster — how a routine service update triggered a silent scheduler failure, and how we uncovered it.

May 5, 2026

by Denis Tiumentsev

· 1,858 Views · 2 Likes

Evolving Spring Boot APIs to an Event-Driven Mesh

Learn to transform Spring Boot REST APIs into an event-driven architecture by utilizing Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS to enhance scalability, resilience, and responsiveness.

May 5, 2026

by Lavi Kumar

· 1,580 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,600 Views

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