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Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Six risk-driven patterns from a Fortune 50 insurer's first WebSphere-to-AWS migration — and why decoupling decided the outcome.

August 28, 2026

by Alka Nimje

· 2,327 Views · 2 Likes

Member Spotlight: Shamsher Khan

We caught up with Shamser to talk about golden prompts, AI-assisted engineering, and how teams can build more consistent and governed AI workflows.

August 28, 2026

by Dominique Roller

· 2,500 Views · 1 Like

Making User-Generated Sites Embeddable: X-Frame-Options vs CSP Frame-Ancestors

A blank “refused to connect” iframe is usually a legacy X-Frame-Options header. Here is how to make user content embeddable with CSP frame-ancestors and scoped headers.

August 28, 2026

by Ruslan Ianberdin

· 1,967 Views

Why Your Terraform Drift Alerts Are Useless (And How to Fix Them)

Terraform plan treats all drift equally, creating alert fatigue. A four-tier severity model (critical, high, medium, and low) based on resource type and attributes.

August 27, 2026

by Sudarshan Bhagvan Thakur

· 2,190 Views · 1 Like

How to Diagnose and Recover Stuck Temporal Workflows

Diagnose stuck Temporal workflows via event history, use LangGraph for triage, and recover safely with retry, reset, signal, or cancel.

August 27, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 2,177 Views · 3 Likes

When Guest Access Becomes an Attack Surface: A Technical Analysis of the City-Forum Campaign

Learn how attackers enumerated Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow portals, and how defenders can detect, audit, and prevent guest-access abuse.

August 27, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,462 Views

How Open Source Builds the Soft Skills Technical Leaders Need

Open source gives software engineers a real environment to practice soft skills like communication, influence, negotiation, trust, empathy, and collaboration.

August 27, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 1,935 Views · 1 Like

Understanding RabbitMQ Exchange Types in Spring Boot

This blog delves into various RabbitMQ exchange types used within a Spring Boot application, highlighting examples and configurations.

August 26, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,131 Views · 1 Like

The 2026 Observability Audit: Separating Single Vendor Silos From Community Innovation

Learn how to evaluate open-source observability projects, compare vendor contributions, and identify healthy community-driven projects beyond marketing claims.

August 26, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 2,285 Views

Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

Use Docker to create a local lakehouse environment that mirrors production, while improving data engineering workflows, Spark testing, and CI reliability.

August 25, 2026

by Aniket Abhishek Soni

· 2,158 Views · 1 Like

Tail-Based Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector: Keeping the Traces That Matter

Tail-based sampling keeps error and slow traces instead of a random slice, but it only works if all trace spans reach the same collector. Here's the fix.

August 25, 2026

by Mateen Ali Anjum

· 1,986 Views · 1 Like

Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Isolating PHI Workloads Without Slowing Down Engineering Teams

Multi-account AWS architecture enforces PHI workload isolation at the boundary level — making access control provable rather than arguable during security reviews.

August 24, 2026

by Garik H

· 1,893 Views

Ampere System Profiler: A Guide to System-Level Profiling

Learn how Ampere System Profiler collects CPU, network, disk, NUMA, and perf metrics to identify system-level performance bottlenecks.

August 24, 2026

by Tito Reinhart

· 1,279 Views · 2 Likes

Cutting AI Token Costs With MgntUtils Stack Trace Filtering

Learn how AI can reduce log volume and token costs by compressing stack traces while preserving the details needed for effective debugging and analysis.

August 24, 2026

by Michael Gantman

· 1,420 Views · 1 Like

From Chat Completions to Responses: Why Is OpenAI Upgrading Its Core API?

The Responses API simplifies complex agent workflows by unifying context, tool calls, and outputs, while Chat Completions remains suitable for simpler chat use cases.

August 24, 2026

by Jake Tao

· 1,011 Views · 1 Like

How to Secure Fintech REST APIs Against BOLA Vulnerabilities

Learn how to protect fintech REST APIs from BOLA attacks with object-level authorization, secure identifiers, access controls, and API security testing.

August 24, 2026

by Nanne Parmar

· 1,263 Views

Building Meeting Audio RAG on Microsoft Foundry With Fast Transcription and Foundry IQ

Build a production-ready meeting audio RAG pipeline with Microsoft Foundry, and connect to a Foundry agent that answers questions with meeting and time citations.

August 21, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,672 Views · 1 Like

From Bottlenecks to Reliability: A Practical Guide to Scaling Temporal in Production

Scale Temporal by right-sizing workers, isolating workloads with task queues, controlling concurrency, and designing regional failover before traffic spikes or outages.

August 21, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 1,487 Views · 2 Likes

Alert Fatigue as a System Design Problem: Engineering On-Call Reliability in Modern SRE Teams

Alert fatigue from excessive notifications exhausts on-call engineers, eroding SRE culture. True reliability requires resilient system design, not heroic human effort.

August 21, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 1,324 Views

Reliability Without Control: Operating SRE Practices in Platform–SaaS and API-Dependent Systems

Modern SRE shifts focus from component health to user experience, relying on accurate signals and human response to sustain reliability despite reduced control.

August 20, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 1,407 Views · 1 Like

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