Software Design and Architecture Resources

Performance Testing RAG Applications: Complete Engineering Guide

In this blog post, we will see how to perform a performance test on a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application properly, covering both speed and correctness.

July 13, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,450 Views · 1 Like

Goodbye, Skeleton Keys: Why Machine Identity Broke IAM, and What SPIFFE Is Doing About It

The Salesloft Drift breach showed why machine identity has outgrown IAM. Here’s how SPIFFE can reduce token sprawl and trust risk.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,035 Views

Building Cross-Team SLO Contracts for Performance Accountability

Cross-team latency problems are accountability problems, not just profiling problems. An SLO contract is one way to solve this.

July 10, 2026

by Ujjwal Gulecha

· 3,434 Views

Service Industry Evolution: Beyond 99.9% Uptime With Evolving Technology

Learn how AI, observability, predictive maintenance, and resilience are helping service organizations move beyond reactive operations and improve uptime.

July 10, 2026

by Abhishek Sharma

· 3,720 Views · 3 Likes

Disaster Recovery as a Governance System

DR failures often occur due to unclear decision ownership. Treat recovery as a governed process with explicit modes, approvals, and evidence.

July 9, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 3,721 Views · 1 Like

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,482 Views

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,194 Views

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

Learn RabbitMQ basics with Spring Boot, including exchanges, queues, routing keys, consumers, and Docker Compose in a hands-on example.

July 8, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,460 Views

AI Won't Keep You from Hitting the Scalability Wall

AI coding tools can dramatically speed up integration builds — but speed isn't the bottleneck. The real issue is the long-term ownership cost.

July 8, 2026

by Bru Woodring

· 1,955 Views · 2 Likes

AI Can't Defend What It Can't See

AI can only defend what it can see. Give it incomplete data, and it won't warn you. It quietly reports everything as healthy while real attacks slip through unseen.

July 7, 2026

by Jithu Paulose

· 2,541 Views · 2 Likes

HTTP QUERY in Java: The Missing Method for Complex REST API Searches

HTTP QUERY gives Java REST APIs a cleaner way to handle complex searches with request bodies, avoiding long URLs and POST misuse while keeping reads explicit.

July 6, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,536 Views

Add Observability to Your React Native Application in 5 Minutes

A five-minute walkthrough for adding logs, traces, and error monitoring to a React Native iOS app using LaunchDarkly's Observability SDK, shown on a simple counter app.

July 6, 2026

by Alexis Roberson

· 2,148 Views · 5 Likes

Azure Databricks for Scalable MLOps and Feature Engineering With Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow

A practical guide to feature engineering at scale with Azure Databricks, covering distributed data processing with Spark and reliable storage with Delta Lake.

July 6, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,516 Views

Resilience Lost in the Stack: How Abstraction Layers Silently Mask Distributed Systems’ Topology Awareness

The focus is on distributed systems resilience, specifically the integration gap between application abstractions and high-availability infrastructure layers.

July 3, 2026

by Rithra Ravikumar

· 2,273 Views

Prompt Injection Attacks and Hidden Security Risks in LLM Applications

Prompt injection hijacks an LLM by exploiting its inability to separate data from commands. Direct and indirect attacks require layered defenses, not one fix.

July 3, 2026

by Karini Kapoor

· 3,212 Views · 2 Likes

Building Your API Gateway From OpenAPI Specs: A Spec-Driven Approach

Generate API gateways directly from OpenAPI specs to eliminate configuration drift, simplify maintenance, and keep your API contract as the single source of truth.

July 3, 2026

by sahil arora

· 1,701 Views

OBO SSO in Java Applications: Securely Calling Downstream APIs on Behalf of a User

OBO (On-Behalf-Of) allows a Java API to securely call downstream services using the authenticated user's identity instead of the application's identity.

July 3, 2026

by Muhammed Harris Kodavath

· 2,131 Views · 3 Likes