Software Design and Architecture Resources

The Timeless Architecture: Enterprise Integration Patterns That Exceed Technology Trends

There are five core integration patterns that have proven to be long-lasting over the years and continue to shape up modern architectures.

January 13, 2026

by Anant Wairagade

· 2,936 Views · 1 Like

MCP Servers Are Everywhere, but Most Are Collecting Dust: Key Lessons We Learned to Avoid That

Teams rushing to build MCP servers are discovering that enthusiasm doesn’t translate into usefulness. This article unpacks why and how to make your MCP server valuable.

January 13, 2026

by Thomas Johnson

CORE

· 2,798 Views · 4 Likes

Supercharge AI Workflows on Azure: Remote MCP Tool Triggers + Your First TypeScript MCP Server

Remote MCP in Azure Functions exposes serverless tools for AI assistants, enabling scalable, cloud-native workflows with Azure services and bindings.

January 13, 2026

by Swapnil Nagar

· 2,201 Views · 1 Like

The Night We Split the Brain: A Telling of Control & Data Planes for Cloud Microservices

Split control and data planes with versioned snapshots and four contracts — routing, policy, limits, release — for safer rollouts and reliably boring systems.

January 12, 2026

by Bharath Kumar Reddy Janumpally

· 8,467 Views · 2 Likes

Leveraging AI-Based Authentication Factors in Modern Identity and Access Management Solutions

Discover how AI is revolutionizing identity management by making authentication smarter, faster, more adaptive, and highly secure against evolving cyber threats.

January 12, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 1,493 Views · 1 Like

Why Encryption Alone Is Not Enough in Cloud Security

Practical Lessons from Real-World Scenarios That Clearly Demonstrate Why Relying on Encryption Alone Cannot Fully Protect Cloud Workloads

January 9, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 5,825 Views · 1 Like

Beyond Extensions: Architectural Deep-Dives into File Upload Security

Secure uploads by using whitelisted extensions, verifying "Magic Bytes," and storing files with randomized names in a non-executable sandbox.

January 9, 2026

by Akanksha Pathak

CORE

· 1,887 Views · 1 Like

Mastering Fluent Bit: Developer Guide to Telemetry Pipeline Routing (Part 12)

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers telemetry pipeline routing mechanisms, tag-based, conditional, and label-based, with hands-on examples for developers.

January 9, 2026

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 1,662 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build and Deploy an AI Agent on Kubernetes With AWS Bedrock, FastAPI and Helm

Learn how to build, containerize, and deploy a lightweight, cloud-native AI agent on Amazon EKS using FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, Docker, and Helm.

January 9, 2026

by Chandrasekhar Rao Katru

· 3,744 Views · 6 Likes

Multi-Region Apache Kafka using Synchronous Replication for Disaster Recovery With Zero Data Loss (RPO=0)

Kafka isn’t one-size-fits-all. Choose between self-managed, serverless, or BYOC deployments. New RPO=0 options now enable zero data loss for real-time applications.

January 9, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,689 Views · 2 Likes

From Code to Runtime: How AI Is Bridging the SAST–DAST Gap

A practical exploration of how AI connects static code vulnerabilities with their potential runtime exploitability in modern cloud-native applications

January 9, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 1,806 Views · 1 Like

When Services Think for Themselves: Traditional Orchestration vs. Agentic AI Microservices

Why traditional orchestration falls short and how agentic AI enables predictive, autonomous microservices for modern cloud-native architectures.

January 8, 2026

by Atish Kumar Dash

· 2,609 Views · 1 Like

Telemetry-Driven AI Architecture: Closing the Loop from UX to Models

Most Android AI features fail after launch because they don’t learn from real users — this architecture logs predictions and user outcomes.

January 8, 2026

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,968 Views · 5 Likes

Enterprise Kubernetes Failures: 20 Critical Misconfigurations Guardon Catches Before Outages

Kubernetes Misconfigurations Are Costing Enterprises Millions — Guardon Fixes More Than Just the “Top 20” YAML Mistakes.

January 8, 2026

by Sajal Nigam

· 2,307 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Containerized Quarkus API and a CI/CD Pipeline on AWS EKS/Fargate with CDK

This project demonstrates a production-ready approach to deploying a containerized Quarkus API on AWS EKS/Fargate, leveraging Infrastructure as Code through the AWS CDK.

January 8, 2026

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 2,448 Views · 1 Like

Secure Log Tokenization Using Aho–Corasick and Spring

This article shows how to use the Aho–Corasick algorithm and deterministic tokenization in Spring Boot to intercept logs in real time, remove sensitive values.

January 8, 2026

by Balakumaran Sugumar

· 2,202 Views · 3 Likes

Managing Changing Hardware/Peripherals in a Robust Point of Sale System

This analysis discusses my thoughts on implementing a secure, scalable architecture to manage changing peripherals through programming to interface.

January 8, 2026

by Vaibhav Rastogi

· 1,720 Views

Handling Logging After Migrating UiPath to Automation Cloud

Learn about logging challenges after migrating UiPath Orchestrator to Automation Cloud and robot-level log ingestion as a scalable observability approach.

January 7, 2026

by RAVINDRA REDDY MADIREDDY

· 2,616 Views · 2 Likes