Software Design and Architecture Resources

Memory-First Indexes in SQL Server 2025: Redefining Performance for Hybrid Workloads

Learn how SQL Server 2025 memory-first indexing can accelerate hybrid transactional and analytical workloads by reducing disk I/O and latency.

September 9, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,352 Views · 2 Likes

Cutting Telemetry Volume Is Not the Same as Cutting Noise

A volume target removes bytes, not noise. Once easy cuts run out, you pay in answers you won't have. Govern the questions your team asks, not bytes per day.

September 8, 2026

by Severin Neumann

· 2,682 Views · 2 Likes

Optimize an AI Agent to Sound Human, Judged by an AI Detector

Use LaunchDarkly agent optimization to make an AI agent's replies sound human against GPTZero, an AI detector, as an inverted judge.

September 8, 2026

by Scarlett Attensil

· 2,689 Views · 1 Like

What Actually Makes AI Infrastructure Agents More Reliable (It's Not More Agents)

Single AI agents fail during incidents. Four specialized agents — supervisor, telemetry, reasoning, action — handle observability more reliably.

September 8, 2026

by Kinjal Vaishnav

· 2,082 Views · 1 Like

Architecting Trust: Agentic Microservice Testing Strategies in the Era of Non-Deterministic AI

Learn how to test, monitor, and deploy reliable agentic AI and multi-agent systems in enterprise environments using modern testing and CI/CD strategies.

September 8, 2026

by Viquar Khan

CORE

· 2,552 Views

Prevent Duplicate API Calls With Idempotency: Patterns That Work

A timeout doesn't prove failure. Reserve an Idempotency-Key before any side effect, back it with a unique DB index, and replay the recorded outcome on every retry.

September 8, 2026

by Manjeera Chanda

· 1,687 Views · 1 Like

Your Email Security Is a DNS Configuration Problem

Every email authentication control is really a DNS record, so most email security failures are DNS mechanics, not protocol misunderstandings.

September 8, 2026

by Vadim Ivanov

· 1,744 Views

How Performance Engineers Find and Fix Hidden System Bottlenecks

Performance engineers diagnose end-to-end bottlenecks using data over intuition, turning hours of system delays into smooth, efficient execution.

September 7, 2026

by Alex Vakulov

CORE

· 2,396 Views · 1 Like

Multilingual Conversational Payments Chatbot Architecture: Enterprise RAG With Safety Guardrails, Human Handoff, and Multi-Modal Support

A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline that grounds LLM responses directly in your website/document content to prevent hallucinations.

September 4, 2026

by Sriram Ramakrishnan

· 2,628 Views · 1 Like

Handling Large API Responses Without Freezing the Client: A Practical Architecture With Temporal, Kafka, and RAG

Use Temporal for orchestration, Kafka for chunk processing, object storage for payloads, and RAG to retrieve relevant data without overwhelming clients.

September 4, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,769 Views · 2 Likes

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Spring Boot pods reload the same classes on every start. A CDS training run inside your Dockerfile caches that work once and cuts startup time roughly in half.

September 3, 2026

by Garima Agarwal

· 3,342 Views · 3 Likes

The Bottleneck of Scaling

Learn how modern languages help developers take care of behind-the-scenes file descriptor management, kernel memory management, and heap management.

September 3, 2026

by Vishal Bhatia

· 2,852 Views · 1 Like

Building a Python API Client That Doesn’t Fall Apart When the API Misbehaves

Build a safer Python API client with timeouts, selective retries, exponential backoff, jitter, and better handling of rate limits and temporary failures.

September 3, 2026

by Ally Garcia

· 2,302 Views · 3 Likes

Gossip on Cryptography: Part 3

In Part 3 of this casual, jargon-free series, we break down hashing, salting, rainbow table attacks, and asymmetric encryption (RSA) — all with everyday analogies.

September 3, 2026

by Sahil Aggarwal

· 2,448 Views · 3 Likes

Making Running Optional: Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes With Agent Substrate

Learn how an early-stage open-source project separates workload lifecycle from compute allocation for bursty, stateful, and massively concurrent AI workloads.

September 3, 2026

by Mayowa Fajobi

· 2,596 Views

Portable Intelligence Architecture: When the Runtime Becomes the Hard Problem

As AI inference moves closer to live context, the hard problem shifts from model quality to runtime design. Portable Intelligence Architecture solves this.

September 2, 2026

by Punit Shah

· 2,494 Views · 1 Like

Node.js Microservices Architecture: A Complete Guide

This guide walks you through the core architecture components and design patterns needed to build scalable microservices with Node.js and explains when to use each.

September 2, 2026

by Megha Verma

· 3,281 Views · 1 Like

Beyond Agent-Washing: The Engineering Principles Behind Production-Ready AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents need secure execution boundaries, deterministic logic, identity, governance, and auditing—not just intelligent models—to safely act in production.

September 2, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,929 Views