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Building a Scope-Constrained AI Agent for Automated CI Failure Repair

Build a scope-constrained AI agent that diagnoses CI failures, limits code changes, generates minimal patches, and validates repairs through targeted tests and CI gates.

October 12, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 1,339 Views · 1 Like

Columnar Formats for AI Telemetry: Parquet vs Vortex With DuckDB

This article compares Parquet and Vortex with DuckDB for AI inference telemetry, showing how file format and row ordering affect query speed and storage.

October 12, 2026

by Bhala Ranganathan

CORE

· 1,874 Views

Kafka With Spring Boot: Introduction

An introduction to the internal architecture of Apache Kafka, covering event streaming and the end-to-end communication flow between producers and consumers.

October 12, 2026

by Sanjoy Kumer Deb

· 1,278 Views · 1 Like

Multi-Agent Orchestration on AWS With AgentCore Runtime and A2A

Multi-agent systems are common. Here we build a small multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime using the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol.

October 9, 2026

by Purnanga Borah

· 1,553 Views · 1 Like

How Cache Invalidation Caused Memory Pressure and API Failures at Scale

Aggressive cache invalidation caused memory pressure, latency spikes, and request failures. Reducing invalidations with time-based expiry restored success to 99.9%.

October 9, 2026

by Semyon Slepov

· 1,188 Views · 2 Likes

Threat Modeling Context-Aware AI: A STRIDE Walkthrough

How to secure enterprise AI pipelines: a hands-on walkthrough of six threat categories, one reference architecture, and a prioritized list of fixes.

October 9, 2026

by Sandeep Gadde

· 1,486 Views · 4 Likes

Production-Grade LLM Regression Testing: Contracts, Evals, and Quality Gates

AI regression testing combines deterministic contracts, behavioral evaluations, production failures, and baseline comparisons to prevent silent LLM regressions.

October 9, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 1,263 Views · 1 Like

Supercharging AI Agents with Azure Context: A Hands-On Guide to Azure MCP

Here’s a step-by-step guide for cloud engineers on how to bridge local AI assistants with live Azure infrastructure using the Model Context Protocol.

October 8, 2026

by Ammar Ekbote

· 1,519 Views · 1 Like

Why Your MCP Server Loses Session State Behind a Load Balancer

MCP's 2026-07-28 spec removes protocol-level sessions, allowing you to run servers behind round-robin load balancers. Here is the migration guide.

October 8, 2026

by Eshaan Jain

· 1,151 Views · 1 Like

Putting Guardrails Around What Your AI Agent Is Allowed to Touch

Governance that stops at the model is theater. Put a guardrail gate at the runtime boundary: bind identity, scope retrieval, gate actions, log everything.

October 8, 2026

by Avinash Maddineni

· 1,802 Views · 1 Like

Building High-Performance Time-Series Applications With Java and QuestDB

QuestDB combines fast time-series ingestion with a familiar SQL model. With Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.18, Java developers can use it through TimeSeriesTemplate and Jakarta Data.

October 7, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,082 Views · 2 Likes

Building and Serving a Custom Model With Azure ML, Then Wiring It Into a Foundry Agent

This guide walks through custom Azure ML model training and deployment to a Managed Online Endpoint and connecting it to a Microsoft Foundry agent as a function tool.

October 6, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,747 Views · 5 Likes

Beyond @Transactional: Solving the Dual-Write Problem in Distributed Microservices

Stop dual-write data inconsistencies. Learn how to architect the Transactional Outbox Pattern using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL for reliable Kafka events.

October 6, 2026

by Rahul Tewari

· 2,302 Views · 1 Like

OpenSearch Heap Sizing: Swap, Page Cache, and the 50% Rule

The story has two parts. In Act 1, we trace elevated latency back to a JVM heap, showing how anonymous memory can still end up in swap even with vm.swappiness=1.

October 6, 2026

by Maxim Muzafarov

· 1,524 Views · 1 Like

Nobody Designs an RBAC Mess; Everyone Ends Up With One

Role hierarchies decay in four predictable stages until nobody can answer "who does this break?" Learn how it happens and what prevents it.

October 5, 2026

by Mayank Sethi

· 1,068 Views · 4 Likes

Building Enterprise File-Heavy AI Workflows: From Secure Uploads to Governed Document Intelligence

A reference architecture for secure, scalable enterprise Document AI, covering ingestion, processing, retrieval, governance, and lifecycle management.

October 5, 2026

by Dr Gopala Krishna Behara

CORE

· 1,432 Views · 1 Like

Why Time Series Databases Matter for Modern Enterprise Applications

Time-series databases simplify temporal workloads by treating time as a first-class dimension for recent-state, historical, trend, telemetry, and high-frequency data.

October 2, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 1,433 Views · 2 Likes

Part 3: End-to-End Tracing and Observability Across Goose, agentgateway, and Quarkus

Add W3C Trace Context propagation across Goose, agentgateway, and Quarkus to turn opaque agentic tool loops into fully observable distributed traces in Jaeger.

October 2, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 1,263 Views · 2 Likes

Docker Sandboxes Beyond the Laptop: Running AI Agents in the Cloud

In this article, we will discuss how to run your coding agents in the cloud using sbx. Cloud compute is usage-billed, so keep track of your sandboxes accordingly.

October 2, 2026

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

CORE

· 1,556 Views · 1 Like

Gossips on Cryptography: Part 4

In this blog, we will continue our discussion from the previous parts. If you have not read them, please read them first.

October 1, 2026

by Sahil Aggarwal

· 1,300 Views · 1 Like

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