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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

· 8,531 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

· 1,536 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

· 5,855 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

· 1,970 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

· 1,703 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

· 4,000 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

· 1,733 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

· 1,867 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

· 2,672 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

· 3,037 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

· 2,384 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

· 2,491 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

· 2,285 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

· 1,774 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

· 2,848 Views · 2 Likes

AWS Bedrock vs Azure OpenAI vs Gemini API: A Practical Comparison

Bedrock = multi-model flexibility, Azure OpenAI = Microsoft-centric enterprise, Gemini = long-context and multimodal with free tier.

January 7, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,367 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Idempotency in Distributed Spring Boot Applications Using MySQL

Implementing idempotency in distributed Spring Boot applications using MySQL row-level locking and transactions to handle concurrent requests safely.

January 7, 2026

by Balakumaran Sugumar

· 6,075 Views · 7 Likes

How to Send .NET Crash Dumps to Slack From an ECS Fargate Task

Get .NET crash dumps from AWS ECS Fargate automatically: leverage Amazon EFS, Amazon S3, AWS DataSync, and AWS Lambda to make debugging easier for your dev team.

January 7, 2026

by Alexander Sharov

· 2,072 Views · 2 Likes

Automated Deployment Using a CI/CD Pipeline (Mule 4 | CloudHub 2.0)

This tutorial demonstrates automated deployment using a CI/CD pipeline with Mule 4. It shows how code pushed to a Git repository triggers deployment automatically.

January 7, 2026

by ARINDAM GOSWAMI

· 2,945 Views · 1 Like

The Hidden Security Risks in ETL/ELT Pipelines for LLM-Enabled Organizations

As LLMs enter data pipelines, ETL/ELT becomes part of the AI security boundary, where untrusted inputs can introduce upstream risks.

January 7, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 5,048 Views · 2 Likes

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