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Testcontainers Explained: Bringing Real Services to Your Test Suite

Testcontainers enables realistic integration testing with broad language support while balancing fidelity, performance, and nuanced adoption strategies.

January 30, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 1,563 Views · 2 Likes

TPU vs GPU: Real-World Performance Testing for LLM Training on Google Cloud

H100 GPUs are best for flexibility, fast iteration, and custom CUDA work. TPU v5p wins on GCP for large-scale LLM training with better cost efficiency and scaling.

January 30, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 3,487 Views

Designing Irreversible Security Release at Hyper-Scale: Lessons Learned From Things You Can’t Undo

Engineers rely on rollback to keep systems stable—but sometimes it isn’t possible. This article explores irreversible changes and why baking and testing matter.

January 30, 2026

by Arun Anbumani

· 1,010 Views

Reliable AI Agent Architecture for Mobile: Timeouts, Retries, and Idempotent Tool Calls

Ship reliable mobile agents: timeout everything, retry by error class, persist steps across restarts, and require idempotency keys for write tools.

January 29, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 1,838 Views · 6 Likes

5 Technical Strategies for Scaling SaaS Applications

In this article, I want to take a closer look at the pitfalls of popular SaaS scaling strategies, drawing on my own experience, and share the lessons learned.

January 29, 2026

by Mykhailo Kopyl

· 1,850 Views · 1 Like

Cognitive Load-Aware DevOps: Improving SRE Reliability

SRE reliability depends on human cognition as much as infrastructure. Reducing cognitive load is key to resilient systems.

January 29, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 2,191 Views

Automating AWS Glue Infra and Code Reviews With RAG and Amazon Bedrock

Automate AWS Glue reviews with infra-first RAG governance, enforcing enterprise standards, reducing manual work, and shifting checks left.

January 29, 2026

by pooja chhabra

· 1,836 Views

Cloud Systems Drift: What Happens When Exceptions Become the System

Cloud systems drift when exceptions accumulate, and decisions lose connection to original objectives. Clear requirements and early security design prevent sprawl.

January 29, 2026

by Kevin Maki

· 3,938 Views

Why Terraform Pipeline Failures Still Take 30 Minutes — and How We Cut Them to 2

AI system cuts Terraform pipeline failure resolution from 30 minutes to two with automated analysis and human-approved fixes.

January 29, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,018 Views

2 Hidden Bottlenecks in Large-Scale Azure Migrations

Moving a massive on-premise system to the cloud isn't just about copying VMs. Here is how to overcome the two hidden performance killers.

January 28, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 2,104 Views

AI-Powered DevSecOps: Automating Security with Machine Learning Tools

AI-driven development is outpacing security teams. This piece examines where AI-powered security actually help, where they fail, and how teams can use them responsibly.

January 28, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,080 Views · 1 Like

From Monolith to Modular Monolith: A Smarter Alternative to Microservices

Microservices introduce distributed-systems complexity most teams underestimate: failures, coordination drag, observability sprawl, and ballooning costs.

January 28, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,016 Views · 3 Likes

Zero Trust for Agents: Implementing Context Lineage in the Enterprise Data Mesh

Agent identity and its audit history will enforce zero-trust access for agents based on both identity and past behavior. This makes agent access more secure and reliable.

January 28, 2026

by Anshul Pathak

· 1,963 Views · 1 Like

The Serverless Ceiling: Designing Write-Heavy Backends With Aurora Limitless

Break the single-writer bottleneck by aligning AWS Lambda, RDS Proxy, and the Aurora Limitless router into a cohesive architecture.

January 28, 2026

by Nabin Debnath

· 3,845 Views · 2 Likes

GraphQL vs REST — Which Is Better?

Which API design paradigm should you choose for your application? GraphQL or REST. This article looks at the pros and cons of each.

January 27, 2026

by Ananth Iyer

· 6,781 Views · 7 Likes

Cost-Aware GenAI Architecture: Caching, Model Routing, and Token Budgets That Don’t Explode

Keep GenAI cheap and fast: cache aggressively, route models by confidence, cap tokens and tools, compress context, and monitor cost per successful outcome.

January 27, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,855 Views · 5 Likes

Designing Mathematical Software for Humans

Mathematical software should mirror how people reason, not just compute. Design APIs that express ideas clearly and make exploration intuitive.

January 27, 2026

by Dhyey Mavani

· 2,217 Views

Versioning Lies: A Date Contract Is a Promise That Never Breaks

Modify URI-based API versioning to use date-based versions, easing operations, ensuring immutability, and also separating core logic from API responses.

January 27, 2026

by Akash Rasal

· 1,117 Views · 1 Like

Edge-First AI Architecture: Designing Low-Latency, Offline-Capable Intelligence

Most Android AI features stall on flaky networks; an edge-first architecture runs key models on-device, with cloud used only as an optional upgrade.

January 27, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,483 Views · 5 Likes

An Introduction to the Four Pillars of Observability

The blog introduces you to the four pillars of observability, AWS and Azure cloud-native services, and ROI to help in architects and engineer's quest for system clarity.

January 27, 2026

by Akash Lomas

· 1,490 Views

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