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Automating AWS Glue Infra and Code Reviews With RAG and Amazon Bedrock

Automate AWS Glue reviews with infra-first RAG governance, enforcing enterprise standards, reducing manual work, and shifting checks left.

January 29, 2026

by pooja chhabra

· 1,951 Views

Cloud Systems Drift: What Happens When Exceptions Become the System

Cloud systems drift when exceptions accumulate, and decisions lose connection to original objectives. Clear requirements and early security design prevent sprawl.

January 29, 2026

by Kevin Maki

· 4,041 Views

Why Terraform Pipeline Failures Still Take 30 Minutes — and How We Cut Them to 2

AI system cuts Terraform pipeline failure resolution from 30 minutes to two with automated analysis and human-approved fixes.

January 29, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,092 Views

2 Hidden Bottlenecks in Large-Scale Azure Migrations

Moving a massive on-premise system to the cloud isn't just about copying VMs. Here is how to overcome the two hidden performance killers.

January 28, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 2,194 Views

AI-Powered DevSecOps: Automating Security with Machine Learning Tools

AI-driven development is outpacing security teams. This piece examines where AI-powered security actually help, where they fail, and how teams can use them responsibly.

January 28, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,212 Views · 1 Like

From Monolith to Modular Monolith: A Smarter Alternative to Microservices

Microservices introduce distributed-systems complexity most teams underestimate: failures, coordination drag, observability sprawl, and ballooning costs.

January 28, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,206 Views · 3 Likes

Zero Trust for Agents: Implementing Context Lineage in the Enterprise Data Mesh

Agent identity and its audit history will enforce zero-trust access for agents based on both identity and past behavior. This makes agent access more secure and reliable.

January 28, 2026

by Anshul Pathak

· 2,043 Views · 1 Like

The Serverless Ceiling: Designing Write-Heavy Backends With Aurora Limitless

Break the single-writer bottleneck by aligning AWS Lambda, RDS Proxy, and the Aurora Limitless router into a cohesive architecture.

January 28, 2026

by Nabin Debnath

· 3,935 Views · 2 Likes

GraphQL vs REST — Which Is Better?

Which API design paradigm should you choose for your application? GraphQL or REST. This article looks at the pros and cons of each.

January 27, 2026

by Ananth Iyer

· 7,019 Views · 7 Likes

Cost-Aware GenAI Architecture: Caching, Model Routing, and Token Budgets That Don’t Explode

Keep GenAI cheap and fast: cache aggressively, route models by confidence, cap tokens and tools, compress context, and monitor cost per successful outcome.

January 27, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 3,074 Views · 5 Likes

Designing Mathematical Software for Humans

Mathematical software should mirror how people reason, not just compute. Design APIs that express ideas clearly and make exploration intuitive.

January 27, 2026

by Dhyey Mavani

· 2,288 Views

Versioning Lies: A Date Contract Is a Promise That Never Breaks

Modify URI-based API versioning to use date-based versions, easing operations, ensuring immutability, and also separating core logic from API responses.

January 27, 2026

by Akash Rasal

· 1,314 Views · 1 Like

Edge-First AI Architecture: Designing Low-Latency, Offline-Capable Intelligence

Most Android AI features stall on flaky networks; an edge-first architecture runs key models on-device, with cloud used only as an optional upgrade.

January 27, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,687 Views · 5 Likes

An Introduction to the Four Pillars of Observability

The blog introduces you to the four pillars of observability, AWS and Azure cloud-native services, and ROI to help in architects and engineer's quest for system clarity.

January 27, 2026

by Akash Lomas

· 1,600 Views

Building an AI Agent Traffic Management Platform: APISIX AI Gateway in Practice

A global appliance leader uses APISIX AI Gateway for unified LLM traffic control, hybrid cloud routing, and multi-tenant isolation.

January 26, 2026

by Yilia Lin

· 1,288 Views

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: How Hackers Are Breaking into AI Systems

Prompt injection exploits token-level processing, making it hard for LLMs to distinguish between given instructions and user data.

January 26, 2026

by ava clark

· 2,227 Views

HAIP 1.0 for Verifiable Presentations: Securing the VP Flow

HAIP 1.0 mandates signed requests (JAR), encrypted responses, and certificate-based verifier identity for VP flows. Here's how to approach it with Spring and Android.

January 26, 2026

by Kyriakos Mandalas

CORE

· 2,209 Views · 1 Like

The Anatomy of an AI Agent and How to Build One With Docker Cagent

AI Agents perceive, reason, plan, and act autonomously using LLMs. This article breaks down the core components that power every agent and shows you how to build one.

January 26, 2026

by Siri Varma Vegiraju

CORE

· 2,248 Views · 1 Like

Secure AI Architecture for Payments: From Risk Signals to Real-Time Decisions

Secure AI architecture for Android payments that turns device, behavior, and transaction signals into real-time approve-or-challenge decisions.

January 23, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,136 Views · 7 Likes

PostgreSQL Trigram Similarity vs. Pattern Matching: A Performance Comparison

Compare planning and execution times for similarity searches using trigram matching, case-insensitive regex and wildcard patterns, with and without GiST or GIN indexing.

January 23, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 3,614 Views · 7 Likes

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