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Securing AI/ML Workloads in the Cloud: Integrating DevSecOps with MLOps

ML systems introduce security risks most teams aren’t prepared for. The piece explores emerging ML-specific threats and what effective MLSecOps looks like in practice.

January 23, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,716 Views · 1 Like

Docker Runtime Escape: Why Mounting docker.sock Is Worse Than Running Privileged Containers

Tested mounting docker.sock in a container. Five minutes later: full host root access, all secrets stolen, backdoors installed. Here's how.

January 23, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 1,779 Views · 2 Likes

Design and Implementation of Cloud-Native Microservice Architectures for Scalable Insurance Analytics Platforms

How cloud-native microservices transform insurance analytics by enabling scalability, real-time processing, and seamless modernization of legacy platforms.

January 23, 2026

by Afroz Mohammad

· 2,050 Views · 1 Like

The Future of AI Integration: Why Model Context Protocol Is the New API

A deep dive into how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) redefines AI interoperability by standardizing the way agents connect to tools and data sources.

January 23, 2026

by Padmanabham Venkiteela

· 1,402 Views

Feature Flags and Safe Rollouts With Azure App Configuration for Large SPA Teams

Feature flags and safe rollouts with Azure App Configuration for large SPA teams, hands-on setup, core principles, TypeScript code for backend and frontend.

January 22, 2026

by Hanna Labushkina

· 1,800 Views

Agentic AI with Bedrock and DynamoDB Integration

This article walks through how to build an Agentic AI customer service agent using Amazon Bedrock, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda via Boto3.

January 22, 2026

by Balakumaran Sugumar

· 3,884 Views · 1 Like

MCP Isn't Just Convenience; It's a Security Problem and a Governance Opportunity

MCP makes LLM tool access easy and turns it into a bigger security surface. Treat it like infrastructure: least privilege, tight tool scope, and strong audit logs.

January 22, 2026

by Sai Teja Erukude

· 3,744 Views

An Automated Inventory Pattern for Managing AWS EC2

Here is a practical automation pattern using Python, Boto3, and Pandas to visualize your AWS EC2 inventory without expensive SaaS tools.

January 21, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 1,881 Views

Where AI Fits and Fails in Workday Integrations

AI enhances Workday integrations by improving mapping, testing, and monitoring, but it fails when used without human oversight, domain expertise, and strong governance.

January 21, 2026

by Suresh Kurapati

· 2,586 Views · 1 Like

The No-Buffering Strategy: Streaming Search Results

Streaming search delivers fast results immediately while slower ones load, dramatically improving perceived user speed and responsiveness.

January 21, 2026

by VIVEK KATARYA

· 1,745 Views

MERGE and Liquid Clustering: Common Performance Issues

A practical look at common pitfalls and performance challenges when using MERGE operations on liquid-clustered Delta tables, and how to avoid them.

January 21, 2026

by Avi Yehuda

· 1,717 Views

Multimodal AI Architecture: Unifying Vision, Text, and Sensor Intelligence

Most Android AI features stay single-modal; this architecture fuses vision, text, and sensor inputs to deliver smarter, context-aware, privacy-conscious experiences.

January 21, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 1,687 Views · 5 Likes

Enterprise LLM Architecture Patterns, From RAG to Agentic Systems

A practical guide to 11 proven LLM architecture patterns, with real-world examples for building scalable, trustworthy, production-ready AI systems.

January 20, 2026

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 6,122 Views · 6 Likes

Docker Hardened Images for Container Security

Docker Hardened Images (DHI) let Docker handle base image security, so your team can focus on building features instead of chasing vulnerabilities.

January 20, 2026

by Siri Varma Vegiraju

CORE

· 2,473 Views · 2 Likes

The Messaging Challenges No One Talks About in Regulated, Air-Gapped, and Hybrid Environments

For platform engineering, today's solutions fall short, creating a gap between operational security requirements and modernization goals.

January 20, 2026

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 1,729 Views

Why High Performance Storage is Important for AI Cloud Build

Learn the technology and architecture behind building AI Cloud and why high performance storage is important. Explore the latest benchmarks and understand the market.

January 20, 2026

by Anjul Sahu

· 1,907 Views

A Step-by-Step Guide to AWS Lambda Durable Functions

Build long-running workflows by separating orchestration from execution, persisting state, and using events or callbacks to pause and resume without holding compute.

January 20, 2026

by Lakshmi Narayana Rasalay

· 3,556 Views

Caching Issues With the Spring Expression Language

Spring Expression Language is a flexible way to evaluate expressions at runtime. However, in the context of caching, this flexibility can lead to errors.

January 20, 2026

by Constantin Kwiatkowski

· 2,403 Views

“Just Don’t Put PII in the Prompt” Is a Trap: A Two-Plane Architecture for Safe LLM Apps

Separate Data Plane (sensitive data/actions) from Prompt Plane (sanitized context). Use IDs + summaries so secrets never enter prompts.

January 20, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 1,359 Views · 5 Likes

Top 5 Payment Gateway APIs for Indian SaaS: A Developer’s Analysis

Compare 5 international payment APIs for Indian SaaS. Choose APIs that enable automated FIRC retrieval — and test the sandbox.

January 19, 2026

by Sarang S Babu

· 5,539 Views

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