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AWS Step Functions + AI: Smarter Orchestration in Modern Applications

Learn to combine AWS Step Functions with Generative AI for scalable orchestration, featuring architecture patterns and code examples

March 2, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,657 Views

Why Your "Stateless" Services Are Lying to You

“Stateless” systems aren’t. Hidden state — caches, pools, SDK retries, kernel buffers — breaks deployments and scaling. Make it explicit, externalized, and observable.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,221 Views

5 Security Considerations for Deploying AI on Edge Devices

When securing AI on edge devices, consider data protection in transit and at rest, secure OTA updates, identity and access management, and more.

March 2, 2026

by Zac Amos

· 1,420 Views

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug

Cloud systems scale — but unchecked, they can bankrupt you. Measure, automate, and optimize costs to keep your infrastructure resilient and your budget intact.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,048 Views

Kubernetes for DevOps Engineers: Mastering Modern Patterns

Kubernetes v1.35 marks a turning point: cgroups v1 is deprecated, Ingress-NGINX is retiring, and Gateway API becomes the ingress standard.

March 2, 2026

by Parthiban Rajasekaran

· 1,177 Views · 1 Like

Hands-On with Azure Local via the Azure Portal

This guide explains how to deploy LocalBox with Azure Bicep and create Azure VMs, covering setup, networking, images, and deployment without physical hardware.

March 2, 2026

by Sanjeev Kumar

· 1,372 Views

Agentic AI: An Architecture Blueprint for Intelligent Clients

Agentic AI turns Android apps into intelligent clients that understand user goals, plan multi-step tasks, and call tools safely.

March 2, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 1,176 Views · 2 Likes

Mastering the AWS Well-Architected AI Stack: A Deep Dive into ML, GenAI, and Sustainability Lenses

Use AWS’s ML, GenAI, and Sustainability lenses together to build AI systems that are production-ready, governed, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,721 Views · 1 Like

Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures

Retries can amplify failures into outages. Use backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency, load shedding, and observability to keep systems stable under pressure.

February 27, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,473 Views

Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?

While many developers run containers on bare metal in development, in production, it's almost all VMs. What does this mean for the broader cloud landscape?

February 27, 2026

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 1,726 Views

Unified Intelligence: Mastering the Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning Integration

Bridge the gap between Big Data and production ML. Learn to integrate Azure Databricks with Azure Machine Learning for a seamless, scalable end-to-end MLOps workflow.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,283 Views

AWS Bedrock vs. SageMaker: Choosing the Right GenAI Stack in 2026

Deciding between Bedrock's serverless ease and SageMaker's deep control? This guide breaks down the 2026 AWS GenAI landscape for you.

February 26, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,439 Views · 1 Like

I Watched an AI Agent Fabricate $47,000 in Expenses Before Anyone Noticed

This explores AI agent failures with organizations deploying autonomous systems faster than their governance, monitoring, and security controls can safely support.

February 26, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,197 Views

The Hidden Cost of Custom Logic: A Performance Showdown in Apache Spark

A deep dive into PySpark UDF performance, showing why standard Python UDFs slow pipelines and when to use Pandas UDFs or native Spark functions instead.

February 26, 2026

by Abhilash Rao Mesala

· 1,661 Views

Terraform AWS Provider Explained Like You’re Five (With Real Code)

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that allows teams to define AWS infrastructure using declarative configuration files instead of manual console clicks.

February 26, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 1,430 Views

Zero-Trust Cross-Cloud: Calling AWS From GCP Without Static Keys Using MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging Google ID tokens for temporary AWS STS credentials to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

February 26, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,356 Views · 3 Likes

OAuth Gone Wrong: The Hidden Token Issue That Brought Down Our Login System

A reused expired refresh token caused widespread login failures in our Node.js app. This article shows how it happened, how we fixed it, and how to avoid it.

February 26, 2026

by Bhanu Sekhar Guttikonda

CORE

· 1,020 Views · 1 Like

A Unified Framework for SRE to Troubleshoot Database Connectivity in Kubernetes Cloud Applications

Troubleshoot Kubernetes database connectivity using a layered diagnostic framework and achieve rapid root-cause identification and production stability.

February 25, 2026

by Prakash Velusamy

· 3,073 Views

How We Cut AI API Costs by 70% Without Sacrificing Quality: A Technical Deep-Dive

Intelligent caching and model routing reduced our AI API costs from $12,340 to $3,680 per month. Production-tested optimizer. Open source. MIT license.

February 25, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 1,524 Views · 1 Like

Cutting P99 Latency From ~3.2s To ~650ms in a Policy‑Driven Authorization API (Python + MongoDB)

We cut tail latency by making queries index-friendly, removing cold-start connection costs, and overlapping third‑party I/O with computation.

February 25, 2026

by Rohit Muthyala

· 1,080 Views

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