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The technical limitations that created the divide between the inner and outer loops are being solved just in time for agentic workflows to make merging them a necessity.

March 9, 2026

by Arjun Iyer

· 2,813 Views

Hands-On With Kubernetes 1.35

Tested K8s 1.35's four key features on Azure VM: zero-downtime pod resizing, gang scheduling, structured auth, and node capabilities. All scripts and configs on GitHub.

March 6, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,198 Views · 1 Like

When Million Requests Arrive in a Minute: Why Reactive Auto Scaling Fails and the Predictive Fix

Learn how to handle flash crowds with predictive, schedule-aware autoscaling, readiness checks, and tier-based capacity to prevent downtime and lag.

March 6, 2026

by Shalini Sudarsan

· 2,522 Views

Fabric's Resource Governance and Scaling Pitfalls

An overview of Microsoft Fabric scaling. Teams that optimize, isolate workloads, and monitor capacity can avoid performance issues and operational costs.

March 6, 2026

by Vishwa Kishore Mannem

· 2,016 Views

Implementing Sharding in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide

PostgreSQL sharding distributes data by key across servers for horizontal scale. This guide shows how to shard a Sales table with practical SQL.

March 5, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 4,523 Views · 2 Likes

Best OpenLens Alternatives for Kubernetes Visibility in 2025

OpenLens is a solid Kubernetes IDE, but as environments scale, teams need alternatives with better multi-cluster visibility and governance.

March 5, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,146 Views

Why Front-End Performance Issues Are Commonly Back-End Issues

A significant portion of the front-end performance issues that arise are not due to the frontend at all but to the back-end APIs, dependencies, and infrastructure.

March 5, 2026

by Satyam Nikhra

· 2,410 Views · 1 Like

A Transaction-Grade Performance Blueprint for Spring Boot FinTech Microservices (Tracing, Histograms, and Kubernetes)

A practical guide for improving FinTech microservice latency and reliability on Kubernetes using OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and SLOs.

March 4, 2026

by Sibasis Padhi

· 3,088 Views · 1 Like

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Setup (Password + SSH Key Users) Using Lambda Identity Provider + S3

Deploy a managed AWS Transfer Family SFTP server backed by S3, using a Lambda identity provider for password and SSH-key logins.

March 4, 2026

by Praveen Chaitanya Jakku

· 4,626 Views

Token-Efficient APIs for the Agentic Era

TOON and TRON reduce token consumption by removing JSON's repetitive keys and delimiters, with TOON for tabular data and TRON for schema-stable agent flows.

March 4, 2026

by Vineet Bhatkoti

· 2,372 Views · 1 Like

Lessons From Our Network Crash (And What I Wish I'd Known Sooner)

Network administration done right requires data-driven strategies and real-time insights that prevent problems before they affect users.

March 4, 2026

by Sascha Neumeier

· 1,056 Views

Infrastructure as Code Is Not Enough

Learn about why Infrastructure as Code alone can't ensure reliability and how intent, policy, and feedback loops create self-correcting, resilient systems.

March 4, 2026

by Venkatesan Thirumalai

· 2,801 Views

Implementing Decentralized Data Architecture on Google BigQuery: From Data Mesh to AI Excellence

Traditional centralized data lakes don’t scale for AI. A Data Mesh not only decentralizes data ownership by domain but also enforces federated governance.

March 3, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,858 Views · 1 Like

Probabilistic Data Structures for Software Security

Learn how bloom filters and count-min sketch make security systems fast and scalable by trading perfect accuracy for speed and memory efficiency.

March 3, 2026

by Shashank Gollapudi

· 1,847 Views · 1 Like

Network Fundamentals Every Backend Developer Must Know

Learn essential network fundamentals that every backend developer needs to master. Understand TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP protocols, and debugging to build better applications.

March 3, 2026

by Kamal Rawat

· 3,700 Views · 1 Like

What Actually Breaks During Large-Scale S/4HANA Conversions (And How to Prevent It)

S/4HANA migrations break custom ABAP code and interfaces unless you proactively refactor code, SQL, and integrations to support the new data model and semantics.

March 3, 2026

by Deepika Paturu

· 1,568 Views

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 Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,743 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

· 1,330 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

· 1,507 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

· 2,240 Views

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