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I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,350 Views · 2 Likes

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,877 Views · 4 Likes

Building a Config-Driven SOAP/REST Integration Layer: One Service, Many Protocols

Learn how to build protocol-agnostic middleware that supports SOAP and REST integrations with configurable authentication and customer-specific transformations.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,991 Views · 1 Like

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 9,149 Views · 2 Likes

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

A practical framework for graduated autonomy in self-healing infrastructure, covering three remediation tiers and policy-driven blast-radius controls for cloud SRE teams.

July 29, 2026

by Shraddhaben Gajjar

· 3,654 Views · 3 Likes

How I Built a Star Wars Grogu Product Research Agent With Codex, Lark, and SerpApi

Built with Codex, SerpApi, OpenAI, and Lark, this lightweight AI agent compares Amazon products across the U.S. and Japan using live search data.

July 29, 2026

by Magenta Qin

· 2,266 Views · 2 Likes

What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker

At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.

July 29, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,945 Views · 3 Likes

How to Protect Your AI Agents from Prompt Injection Attacks: An Active Defense Approach

Stop just blocking prompt injections. Learn how to use MIRAGE to trap AI agents in honeypots and force them to burn their own API tokens.

July 29, 2026

by Victoria Fonareva

· 3,427 Views · 1 Like

From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.

July 28, 2026

by DZone Staff

· 12,121 Views · 2 Likes

Microservices Architecture in Production: 7 Engineering Decisions That Determine Success or Failure

Microservices succeed when they're designed with clear service boundaries, reliable communication, independent data ownership, and strong operational practices.

July 28, 2026

by Mahipal Nehra

· 3,169 Views · 4 Likes

Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 2: The Guardrails

Learn how production AI agents use tool contracts, authorization scopes, audit trails, and risk-based human approval to safely take autonomous actions.

July 28, 2026

by Ram Ravishankar

· 2,370 Views · 1 Like

OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors

A look at the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) that has been created by the CNCF OpenTelemetry project and how it could deliver beyond OTel's needs.

July 27, 2026

by Phil Wilkins

· 2,347 Views · 1 Like

Designing Secure REST APIs With Spring Boot

Learn how to secure Spring Boot REST APIs with JWT validation, method-level authorization, input validation, rate limiting, CORS, secure logging, and more.

July 27, 2026

by Srivenkata Gantikota

· 3,394 Views · 2 Likes

Securing Model Context Protocol Servers: 4 Gates From Code to Production

Secure MCP servers against prompt injection, data leaks, and denial-of-wallet with four practical, OWASP-aligned gates from code to production. Runnable code.

July 24, 2026

by Viquar Khan

CORE

· 4,285 Views · 3 Likes

From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026

Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.

July 24, 2026

by Nathan Smith

· 3,106 Views · 2 Likes

The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability

Agentic SRE speeds up incident response, but it also requires clear guardrails, strong observability, and human oversight.

July 23, 2026

by Neel Shah

· 5,137 Views · 2 Likes

Why AI-Generated Code Fails Security Reviews 45% of the Time

AI coding tools produce security flaws in 45% of outputs, yet developers trust the code more despite no security gains in two years.

July 23, 2026

by sunil paidi

· 3,196 Views · 1 Like

Stop Writing If-Else Spaghetti: Architecting Cleaner Java with the Strategy Pattern

Stop writing messy nested conditionals. Learn how to combine Java Enums, Functional Interfaces, and Spring to build a scalable Strategy Pattern.

July 23, 2026

by Rahul Tewari

· 7,752 Views · 4 Likes

API Testing Frameworks: How to Pick the Right One and Actually Use It Well

Learn how to choose the right API testing framework, including REST Assured, Supertest, pytest, Postman, Karate, and Keploy, for better API test automation.

July 23, 2026

by Himanshu Mandhyan

· 3,311 Views · 2 Likes

Why MCP Servers Lose Session State Behind Load Balancers

Moving an MCP server behind a load balancer changes how sessions behave, and can break long-running tool calls without obvious errors.

July 22, 2026

by Tanushree Das

· 5,572 Views · 3 Likes

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