Software Design and Architecture Resources

GitOps Secrets Management: The Vault + External Secrets Operator Pattern (With Auto-Rotation)

Sealed Secrets broke at scale. Learn how Vault + External Secrets Operator solved our rotation nightmare with auto-sync, zero Git secrets, and multi-cluster support.

March 13, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 4,288 Views · 1 Like

Understanding Custom Authorization Mechanisms in Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync

This article compares the use of custom Lambda authorizers in AWS API Gateway and AWS AppSync, focusing on their respective approaches to API authorization.

March 13, 2026

by Leslie Daniel Raj

· 4,558 Views · 2 Likes

Why Reporting Is the Hardest Problem in Enterprise SaaS (And How We Solved It in Workday)

Workday solves real-time reporting with unified data, in-memory architecture and embedded analytics for fast, secure insights.

March 13, 2026

by Suresh Kurapati

· 3,275 Views

Google Cloud AI Agents With Gemini 3: Building Multi-Agent Systems That Actually Work

Build and scale multi-agent systems using Gemini 3 on Google Cloud Vertex AI, featuring code and architecture for technical experts.

March 12, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,957 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond the Heartbeat: Monitoring Agentic Systems

Agentic monitoring shifts from uptime to decision health — tracking reasoning, performance, resources, and outcomes across dynamic workflows.

March 12, 2026

by VIVEK KATARYA

· 3,158 Views

DPoP: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Bearer Tokens Aren't Enough

Bearer tokens grant access to anyone who holds them. DPoP fixes this by binding each token to a cryptographic key pair: every request must include a signed proof.

March 12, 2026

by Hüseyin Akdoğan

CORE

· 3,619 Views

What Enterprise Architects Get Wrong About “Simple” SaaS Integrations

“Simple” SaaS integrations often mask deep complexity in architecture, data security, scalability, governance and maintenance.

March 11, 2026

by Suresh Kurapati

· 3,248 Views · 1 Like

Building the Future-Proofing Forensics Pipeline with Dilithium

Future-proof forensic chains of custody against quantum attacks using Merkle trees, blockchain, and post-quantum cryptography.

March 11, 2026

by Rahul Karne

· 11,622 Views

AWS EventBridge as Your System's Nervous System: The Architecture Nobody Talks About

EventBridge handles our 4M daily events. When Stripe changed APIs, we spent $1,200 and 4 days instead of $180K and 6 weeks.

March 11, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 6,559 Views · 1 Like

Building Reliable Enterprise Systems with Workday: An Architect’s Perspective

In healthcare, Workday becomes a reliable enterprise platform when architects design resilient integrations, enforce data governance, and plan for scale.

March 11, 2026

by Suresh Kurapati

· 4,498 Views

Entangled Kubernetes Objects

A multimodal neural network that unifies per-modality losses and optimizers into a single cumulative loss, enabling flexible, scalable training across heterogeneous data.

March 11, 2026

by Paritosh Ranjan

· 2,601 Views

Building a Unified API Documentation Portal with React, Redoc, and Automatic RAML-to-OpenAPI Conversion

Learn how to build a modern static API documentation portal that supports both OpenAPI 3.x and RAML 1.0 specifications with automatic conversion.

March 11, 2026

by Sreedhar Pamidiparthi

· 5,647 Views

Unblocking a Failed Solr 5 to Solr 8 Migration in a Large-Scale Ads Retrieval System

The Solr 5 to Solr 8 upgrade failed due to silent behavior changes, not bad configs. Fixing it meant restoring compatibility, not tuning knobs.

March 10, 2026

by Parveen Saini

· 2,326 Views · 1 Like

Designing Production-Grade GenAI Data Pipelines on Snowflake: From Vector Ingestion to Observability

Learn to build production-ready GenAI pipelines on Snowflake with delta-aware ingestion, scalable retrieval, and observability for reliability and cost control.

March 10, 2026

by Abhijit Ubale

· 2,750 Views · 1 Like

How We Rebuilt a Legacy HBase + Elasticsearch System Using Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino, and Doris

We replaced HBase + Elasticsearch with an Iceberg lakehouse, cutting cost and complexity while supporting analytics and near-real-time access.

March 10, 2026

by Mikhail Povolotskii

· 4,079 Views · 1 Like

Optimizing Data Loader Jobs in SQL Server: Production Implementation Strategies

Accelerate SQL Server loads with bulk ops, partitioning, columnstore, minimal logging, smart batching, and tuned server settings, reducing production load times by 3–10x.

March 10, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 3,468 Views