Software Design and Architecture Resources

AI as a SQL Performance Tuning Assistant: A Structured Evaluation

Can AI genuinely provide engineering‑grade SQL optimization insights, or does it mainly offer confident‑sounding but shallow guidance?

March 20, 2026

by Manish Adawadkar

· 4,212 Views · 3 Likes

Why Agentic AI Demands Intent-Based Chaos Engineering

Intent-based chaos engineering tests AI systems with calculated stress, using topology, sensitivity, and SLA insights to ensure predictable resilience.

March 20, 2026

by Sayali Patil

· 6,446 Views · 4 Likes

Secrets Management With Infisical and External Secrets Operator

No secrets in Git, but GitOps needs secrets. Learn how to use Infisical with the External Secrets Operator to bridge the gap in Kubernetes.

March 20, 2026

by Ian Packard

· 3,727 Views

Scalable Cloud-Native Java Architecture With Microservices and Serverless

Learn all about scalable, cloud-native architectures with microservices and serverless technologies, boosting agility, performance, and cost-efficiency.

March 20, 2026

by Harris Anderson

· 5,158 Views · 1 Like

Why Security Scanning Isn't Enough for MCP Servers

A secure MCP server can still break production. Twenty heuristic rules score readiness by catching missing timeouts, unsafe retries, and absent error schemas.

March 19, 2026

by Nik Kale

· 5,070 Views · 1 Like

Nvidia’s Open Model Super Panel Made a Strong Case for Open Agents

At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang, Aravind Srinivas, Harrison Chase, Mira Murati, and Michael Truell made a compelling case that the future of AI belongs to open agent systems, not just open models.

March 19, 2026

by Corey Noles

· 4,203 Views

Microsoft Fabric: The Developer's Guide on API Automation of Security and Data Governance

The article discusses popular scenarios for automation governance in Microsoft Fabric, which may help organizations more easily govern Fabric.

March 19, 2026

by Iurii Iurchenko

· 3,748 Views · 1 Like

From DLT to Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines: A Practical Migration Playbook

Migrating from DLT to Lakeflow is mostly an API refactor, swapping DLT for pipelines, separating streaming and materialized tables, and updating CDC logic.

March 19, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 4,566 Views · 1 Like

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

· 4,591 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

· 3,603 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

· 4,095 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

· 6,678 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

· 5,134 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

· 3,559 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

CORE

· 5,213 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

· 3,577 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

· 3,047 Views