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Every SOC Today Is Answering the Wrong Question

Rethink SOC architecture with Continuous Evidence Graphs that connect identities, sessions, and resources instead of relying on alert timelines.

July 17, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,664 Views

Designing Scalable Containerized Backend Services

Learn to build high-concurrency relational microservices using Python and Docker, focusing on async connection pooling and state management.

July 17, 2026

by Estefanio Fernando

· 2,165 Views · 1 Like

Anti-Patterns of Microservices Architecture From Real Production Experience

Microservices don't fix complexity; they shift it to the network. They require strict data, runtime, and business autonomy — not just split codebases.

July 17, 2026

by Ivan Balashov

· 1,973 Views

When AI Agents Call Your Microservices: 5 Assumptions That No Longer Hold

Five assumptions break predictable volume, rare duplicates, human-owned auth, fault-only retries, and log-based debugging, and five targeted fixes address each one.

July 16, 2026

by Maryna Klochkova

· 2,543 Views · 2 Likes

Going Stateless: Scaling MCP Servers to Cloud-Native Java and HTTP

The Model Context Protocol has evolved to be entirely stateless over HTTP, removing complex session bottlenecks. Pairing this update with cloud-native Java, Quarkus!

July 16, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,050 Views · 2 Likes

Your Agent Trusts That Wiki. Should It?

AI agents need more than execution correctness. Instruction provenance must be a first-class security property before privileged actions are trusted.

July 16, 2026

by Abhinav Srivastava

· 3,892 Views

Cloud Cost Optimization Was Hard; AI Cost Optimization Will Be Worse.

Cloud cost optimization was hard because cloud made infrastructure consumption easy; AI cost optimization will be worse because AI makes decision consumption easy.

July 15, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 3,539 Views · 1 Like

Architecting Autonomous Network Ecosystems: From Reactive Monitoring to Agentic AI Orchestration

A strategic blueprint for integrating sophisticated multi-agent systems designed to drive proactive, zero-touch network operations.

July 15, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,793 Views · 2 Likes

Debugging and Performance Tuning in Pega Using PAL, Tracer, and Clipboard

Use PAL to find where time and memory go, Tracer to see which rule caused it, and Clipboard to confirm the state in that order, every time.

July 15, 2026

by Anil guntupalli

· 2,311 Views

Does 100% Code Coverage Mean Tested?

Learn why 100% code coverage doesn't guarantee software quality, and how behavior coverage and mutation testing provide more meaningful testing insights.

July 15, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 3,188 Views · 1 Like

How to Build a Brand Monitoring Dashboard With SerpApi and Python

Track your brand across Google News, YouTube, and online discussions in a single Python dashboard with data from SerpApi.

July 14, 2026

by Tomas Murua

· 2,492 Views · 1 Like

12 Factor Framework for Building Secure and Compliant Cloud Applications

Learn how a practical 12-factor framework embeds security, compliance, resilience, and governance into cloud-native applications.

July 14, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 2,684 Views · 3 Likes

Scaling Teams, Scaling Systems: Unlocking Developer Productivity With Platform Engineering

Platform engineering scales teams and systems, streamlines workflows, and reduces friction—driving faster delivery, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

July 14, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 2,532 Views · 1 Like

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

Learn eight AWS Glue ETL design principles for building production PySpark pipelines that are maintainable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.

July 14, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,123 Views · 2 Likes

Differential Flamegraphs in Java in Jeffrey Microscope

How to set up a secondary profile and pinpoint the precise frames responsible for a performance change between two JFR recordings.

July 14, 2026

by Petr Bouda

CORE

· 1,804 Views · 1 Like

API Facade vs. Orchestration vs. Eventing, Now With AI in the Loop

Discover architectural patterns for integrating AI into enterprise systems without sacrificing governance, reliability, observability, or loose coupling.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 2,230 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Zero-Trust Networking and Identity for Microsoft Foundry Agents

This article explains how to implement a zero-trust security architecture for Microsoft Foundry agents by combining identity-first authentication.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,739 Views

Machine Identity Debt: Why Human Identity Is No Longer Cloud Security's Primary Boundary

Machine identities now outnumber human ones in cloud environments. Learn how to secure workloads with modern identity governance and trust.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 4,856 Views

Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry

This article walks through building a production-ready multi-agent AI system using Microsoft's AI stack, focusing on the operational capabilities.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,807 Views

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

· 2,718 Views · 1 Like

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