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Push Filters Down, Not Up: The Data Layer Design Principle Most Developers Learn Too Late

Data fetching without filters or limits is a costly, hidden bug in the backend. API parameters must flow into SQL queries, not filter after full data transfer.

March 19, 2026

by Sanjay Mishra

· 4,535 Views · 1 Like

Latency Is Cheap, Bandwidth Is Not

Bandwidth — not compute — is what quietly blows up cloud bills. Measure bytes. Minimize payloads. Treat caching and topology as cost controls.

March 19, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,570 Views · 1 Like

Building Fault-Tolerant Spring Boot Microservices With Kafka and AWS

Build fault-tolerant Spring Boot microservices with Kafka using retries, DLTs, idempotency, and AWS Lambda for scalable, resilient event processing.

March 19, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 3,999 Views

Java Microservices (SCS) vs. Spring Modulith

This article examines both architectures, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, trade-offs, and guidance on when each is most appropriate.

March 18, 2026

by Sven Loesekann

· 6,367 Views · 3 Likes

Zero-Cost AI with Java

Create a zero-cost AI application quickly using Ollama and Java with Spring AI — with no extra costs and full compatibility with other LLMs like OpenAI.

March 18, 2026

by Fernando Boaglio

· 4,955 Views · 5 Likes

How LLMs Reach 1 Million Token Context Windows — Context Parallelism and Ring Attention

Learn how Ring Attention and context parallelism enable LLMs to scale to 10M tokens through distributed GPU training and memory optimization.

March 18, 2026

by Kevin Vu

· 3,482 Views

Fast Data Access Part 2: From Manual Hacks to Modern Stacks

Rebuild a legacy risk pipeline with GemFire, Spark, and Spring Boot. Sub-2ms alerts, ACID upserts, real-time dashboards, and a one-command demo.

March 18, 2026

by Viquar Khan

· 5,168 Views

Essential Monitoring Metrics for Cloud Native Systems: Part 1

Master cloud-native observability. Learn essential monitoring metrics — from Golden Signals to saturation — to keep your distributed systems reliable.

March 18, 2026

by Gaurav Gaur

CORE

· 3,509 Views

The Invisible Bleed: A Field Guide to Cloud Costs That Hide in Plain Sight

Healthy cloud systems can still hemorrhage money. This article outlines FinOps strategies, from tagging and anomaly detection to CI/CD cost guardrails.

March 18, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,009 Views

Automating IBM MQ Console (MQ Web Server) Startup Post-Server Reboot

This article provides simple steps to configure the IBM MQ Web Server for automatic startup as a system service on both Windows and Linux.

March 17, 2026

by Ram Kasivisvanathan

· 2,985 Views

Beyond Chatbots: Supercharging Feather Wand With Claude Code Integration

When I first introduced Feather Wand, the goal was simple: to make performance testing more accessible and efficient by leveraging the power of AI.

March 17, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,299 Views · 1 Like

From SAST to “Shift Everywhere”: Rethinking Code Security in 2026

Code security no longer lives in scans. It lives in architecture, dependencies, and continuous lifecycle risk management.

March 17, 2026

by Alex Vakulov

CORE

· 3,899 Views · 1 Like

Observability in AI Pipelines: Why “The System Is Up” Means Nothing

AI systems can be fully “up” yet behave unpredictably, expensively, or incorrectly. Observability must track job state, retries, token usage, and cost.

March 17, 2026

by Aditya Gupta

· 3,709 Views · 1 Like

Zero Trust, Build High Scale TLS Termination Layer

Automated TLS termination for thousands of custom domains on HAProxy. DigiCert HTTP DCV, internal KMS, sync agents, HAProxy runtime API for zero-downtime cert updates.

March 16, 2026

by Ramesh Sinha

· 6,614 Views

How Multimodal AI Is Reshaping Kubernetes Workflows: Future-Proofing Your Platform

Kubernetes is becoming the backbone of multimodal AI — combining GPUs, smart schedulers, and model-serving tools to run text, image, etc., cost-effectively.

March 16, 2026

by Vamshidhar Parupally

· 3,890 Views

Performance Unlocked: Introducing the Ampere Performance Toolkit (APT)

Ampere Performance Toolkit (APT) helps developers port, benchmark, and optimize Arm64 workloads with tools for migration, profiling, and performance analysis.

March 16, 2026

by Pete Baker

· 2,837 Views

The Clandestine Culprits: Unmasking Modern Web Security Misconfigurations (And Their Automated Nemeses)

A focused deep dive into security misconfigurations — CORS, headers, cookies, admin exposure — and how to eliminate them with hardening and automated CI/CD enforcement.

March 13, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,411 Views

Extending Java Libraries with Service Loader

How to dynamically use Java’s Service Loader to discover and load SPI implementations at runtime for plugin-like extensions.

March 13, 2026

by Dominik Przybysz

· 3,821 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 4,373 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

· 4,626 Views · 2 Likes

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