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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

· 1,081 Views

Cagent: Dockers newest low code Agentic Platform

Docker’s cagent is a new open-source, low-code/ YAML-centric AI agent builder and runtime. Instead of writing code, you describe agents and cagent runs them.

February 25, 2026

by Siri Varma Vegiraju

CORE

· 1,694 Views

Edge Computing's Infrastructure Problem: What Two Years of Factory Visits Actually Revealed

Most edge computing remains cloud-dependent, with genuine use cases limited to strict latency or connectivity needs — making it more marketing than architecture.

February 25, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,500 Views · 2 Likes

How to Integrate an AI Chatbot Into Your Application: A Practical Engineering Guide

A practical engineering guide to integrating an AI chatbot into your application, covering architecture, backend flow, NLP handling, security, testing, and deployment.

February 24, 2026

by Manthan Bhavsar

· 1,439 Views

Integration Reliability for AI Systems: A Framework for Detecting and Preventing Interface Mismatch at Scale

Prevent AI system failure by enforcing contract consistency across four layers: validation, testing, runtime monitoring, and fail-fast boundaries.

February 24, 2026

by Anurag Jindal

· 1,634 Views

Swagger UI in a BFF World: Making Swagger UI Work Natively With BFF Architectures

This article introduces a Swagger UI plugin that integrates natively with BFFs using the Swagger UI extension mechanism.

February 24, 2026

by Raghuraman Ramaswamy

CORE

· 1,979 Views · 2 Likes

The DevSecOps Paradox: Why Security Automation Is Both Solving and Creating Pipeline Vulnerabilities

This article examines how DevSecOps and AI automation shifted attacks to CI/CD pipelines, making security tools themselves a growing attack surface.

February 24, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,637 Views · 1 Like

Performance-Centric Platform Engineering: Shared Responsibility, Guardrails, and Tenant Isolation

Performance becomes predictable when platforms embed guardrails, autoscaling, isolation, observability, and continuous testing.

February 24, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 1,037 Views · 2 Likes

Azure SLM Showdown: Evaluating Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic for Production

Evaluate Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic. Learn to deploy cost-effective, high-performance SLMs on Azure for production workloads.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,507 Views

Supply Chain Security for Tools and Prompts

Tools, routers, signatures, versioned prompts, and semantic models enforce pinned bundles at runtime and emit audit-proof evidence stamps.

February 23, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 1,092 Views

Data Driven API Testing in Java with Rest-Assured and TestNG: Part 1

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with Rest-Assured using object arrays and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

February 23, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,032 Views · 2 Likes

The Quantum Computing Mirage: What Three Years of Broken Promises Have Taught Me

Despite steady progress, quantum computing remains decades from practical advantage, with cryptography upgrades as its only near-term impact.

February 23, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 1,859 Views · 4 Likes

Building a Sentiment Analysis Pipeline With Apache Camel and Deep Java Library (DJL)

This tutorial shows how to build a sentiment analysis pipeline entirely in Java using Apache Camel and Deep Java Library (DJL).

February 23, 2026

by Vignesh Durai

· 2,850 Views · 2 Likes

Azure AI Search at Scale: Building RAG Applications with Enhanced Vector Capacity

Azure AI Search now supports massive vector scale (tens of millions per index) with better performance and cost efficiency.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,040 Views

Observability Without Cost Telemetry Is Broken Engineering

Treating cost as a first-class signal lets teams spot financial regressions early and make informed infrastructure trade-offs before cloud spend becomes a surprise.

February 20, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,879 Views · 1 Like

Amazon Q Developer for AI Infrastructure: Architecting Automated ML Pipelines

Master Amazon Q Developer for ML infrastructure. Automate SageMaker pipelines, optimize GPU resources, and accelerate AI development cycles.

February 20, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,744 Views · 1 Like

Architecting Zero-Trust Database Access in Kubernetes With Vault Dynamic Secrets

Replace static passwords with dynamic, ephemeral credentials using Vault and sidecar injection to automate database security in Kubernetes workloads.

February 20, 2026

by Niranjan Kumar Sharma

· 3,702 Views · 2 Likes

Hurley: A High-Performance HTTP Client and Load Testing Tool Engineered in Rust

Technical architecture, capabilities, and use cases of hurley, a project developed in Rust that functions as a general-purpose HTTP client and a performance testing tool.

February 20, 2026

by Dursun Koç

CORE

· 1,743 Views

Why End-to-End Testing Fails in Microservice Architectures

End-to-end testing fails in microservices due to non-determinism, complex environments, slow feedback, and unclear ownership, making tests flaky and unreliable.

February 20, 2026

by Alok Kumar

· 2,523 Views

A Unified Defense Against MITRE’s Top Injection Attacks

Attackers continue to exploit injection flaws — all ranked among the most dangerous weaknesses in MITRE’s 2025 CWE Top 25 list with 41 actively exploited vulnerabilities.

February 20, 2026

by Ravi Sastry Kadali

· 1,253 Views · 1 Like

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