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The DevSecOps Paradox: Why Security Automation Is Both Solving and Creating Pipeline Vulnerabilities

This article examines how DevSecOps and AI automation shifted attacks to CI/CD pipelines, making security tools themselves a growing attack surface.

February 24, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,017 Views · 1 Like

Performance-Centric Platform Engineering: Shared Responsibility, Guardrails, and Tenant Isolation

Performance becomes predictable when platforms embed guardrails, autoscaling, isolation, observability, and continuous testing.

February 24, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce, Ph.D

CORE

· 1,502 Views · 2 Likes

Azure SLM Showdown: Evaluating Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic for Production

Evaluate Phi-3, Llama 3, and Snowflake Arctic. Learn to deploy cost-effective, high-performance SLMs on Azure for production workloads.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,796 Views

Supply Chain Security for Tools and Prompts

Tools, routers, signatures, versioned prompts, and semantic models enforce pinned bundles at runtime and emit audit-proof evidence stamps.

February 23, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 1,378 Views

Data Driven API Testing in Java with Rest-Assured and TestNG: Part 1

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with Rest-Assured using object arrays and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

February 23, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,491 Views · 2 Likes

The Quantum Computing Mirage: What Three Years of Broken Promises Have Taught Me

Despite steady progress, quantum computing remains decades from practical advantage, with cryptography upgrades as its only near-term impact.

February 23, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,285 Views · 5 Likes

Building a Sentiment Analysis Pipeline With Apache Camel and Deep Java Library (DJL)

This tutorial shows how to build a sentiment analysis pipeline entirely in Java using Apache Camel and Deep Java Library (DJL).

February 23, 2026

by Vignesh Durai

· 3,188 Views · 2 Likes

Azure AI Search at Scale: Building RAG Applications with Enhanced Vector Capacity

Azure AI Search now supports massive vector scale (tens of millions per index) with better performance and cost efficiency.

February 23, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,412 Views

Observability Without Cost Telemetry Is Broken Engineering

Treating cost as a first-class signal lets teams spot financial regressions early and make informed infrastructure trade-offs before cloud spend becomes a surprise.

February 20, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,347 Views · 1 Like

Amazon Q Developer for AI Infrastructure: Architecting Automated ML Pipelines

Master Amazon Q Developer for ML infrastructure. Automate SageMaker pipelines, optimize GPU resources, and accelerate AI development cycles.

February 20, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,028 Views · 1 Like

Architecting Zero-Trust Database Access in Kubernetes With Vault Dynamic Secrets

Replace static passwords with dynamic, ephemeral credentials using Vault and sidecar injection to automate database security in Kubernetes workloads.

February 20, 2026

by Niranjan Kumar Sharma

· 4,002 Views · 2 Likes

Hurley: A High-Performance HTTP Client and Load Testing Tool Engineered in Rust

Technical architecture, capabilities, and use cases of hurley, a project developed in Rust that functions as a general-purpose HTTP client and a performance testing tool.

February 20, 2026

by Dursun Koç

CORE

· 2,131 Views

Why End-to-End Testing Fails in Microservice Architectures

End-to-end testing fails in microservices due to non-determinism, complex environments, slow feedback, and unclear ownership, making tests flaky and unreliable.

February 20, 2026

by Alok Kumar

· 2,782 Views

A Unified Defense Against MITRE’s Top Injection Attacks

Attackers continue to exploit injection flaws — all ranked among the most dangerous weaknesses in MITRE’s 2025 CWE Top 25 list with 41 actively exploited vulnerabilities.

February 20, 2026

by Ravi Sastry Kadali

· 1,491 Views · 1 Like

AWS SageMaker HyperPod: Distributed Training for Foundation Models at Scale

Master distributed training at scale with AWS SageMaker HyperPod's resilient cluster management and high-performance interconnects.

February 19, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,751 Views

Automating Unix Security Across Hybrid Clouds

Here is an architectural pattern for building a fully automated, cross-cloud patching engine using GitLab CI, Docker, and Ansible.

February 19, 2026

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 2,088 Views

Mastering Serverless Data Pipelines: AWS Step Functions Best Practices for 2026

AWS Step Functions is central to modern serverless data engineering, yet many teams struggle to build pipelines that scale reliably in production.

February 19, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,249 Views

Embedding Store as a Platform on AWS: OpenSearch + Bedrock + S3 Needs SLAs, Governance, and Quotas

Vector search is not "just OpenSearch." It just needs to be run as a platform with SLAs, governance, and quotas to control drift, leaks, and out-of-control costs.

February 19, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 1,633 Views · 1 Like

Production-Ready Observability for Analytics Agents: An Open Telemetry Blueprint Across Retrieval, SQL, Redaction, and Tool Calls

Standardize analytics agent observability with OpenTelemetry spans for policy, retrieval, SQL, verification, redaction, tools, capturing proof without sensitive payloads

February 18, 2026

by Anusha Kovi

CORE

· 2,706 Views · 1 Like

Mastering the Gemini 3 API: Architecting Next-Gen Multimodal AI Applications

Explore Google Gemini 3 API’s architecture, native multimodality, and agentic workflows with a hands-on guide to building a production-ready multimodal AI.

February 18, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,110 Views · 1 Like

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