Software Design and Architecture Resources

Building a Containerized Quarkus API on AWS ECS/Fargate With CDK

Build production-ready Quarkus API on AWS ECS with CDK Infrastructure as Code. Includes database integration, caching, and comprehensive testing.

November 18, 2025

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 5,114 Views

Private AI at Home: A RAG-Powered Secure Chatbot for Everyday Help

Secure RAG chatbot built with Spring AI with local embeddings and PostgreSQL. Hosted on Linux PCs, it ensures privacy, context‑aware answers, reproducible deployments.

November 17, 2025

by Soham Sengupta

· 3,494 Views · 1 Like

From Data Lakes to Intelligence Lakes: Augmenting Apache Iceberg With Generative AI Metadata on AWS

Build an AI-augmented data lake using Iceberg, Glue, and Bedrock to turn static metadata into searchable intelligence with semantic tags and AI summaries.

November 17, 2025

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 5,645 Views · 1 Like

Kubernetes CNI Drivers

Learn how Kubernetes assigns pod IPs using CNI. This guide breaks down how container networking works and walks through building a simple custom CNI plugin.

November 17, 2025

by Ramesh Sinha

· 2,875 Views · 2 Likes

How Agentic AI Enhances API Testing

Agentic AI addresses API testing issues through test creation and maintenance, intelligent test coverage, and more. Here's how to prepare development workflows for AI.

November 17, 2025

by Zac Amos

· 3,221 Views · 3 Likes

Beyond Outages: Building True Resilience After the AWS Outage

True resilience means multi-cloud architecture, spreading critical workloads across AWS, Azure, or GCP with shared data, global load balancing, and unified monitoring.

November 17, 2025

by Jas Tandon

· 2,689 Views · 4 Likes

Integrating AWS With Okta for Just-in-Time (JIT) Access: A Practical Guide From the Field

Static IAM users, login roles were killing our security posture and slowing everyone down. So we wired Okta and AWS with SAML and Okta Workflows for JIT access.

November 17, 2025

by Sanjay Kurra

· 4,698 Views · 3 Likes

From Agent AI to Agentic AI: Building Self-Healing Kubernetes Clusters That Learn

Evolving from reactive Agent AI to autonomous Agentic AI: a self-healing Kubernetes system that learns from fixes and applies patterns automatically.

November 17, 2025

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,476 Views · 1 Like

Evaluating AI Vulnerability Detection: How Reliable Are LLMs for Secure Coding?

Can AI spot real-world security bugs? Semgrep’s research compares LLMs on their ability to catch SQLi, XSS, and IDOR vulnerabilities.

November 14, 2025

by Jayson DeLancey

· 4,655 Views · 4 Likes

Spectre and Meltdown: How Modern CPUs Traded Security for Speed

Spectre and Meltdown exploit CPU optimizations like out-of-order and speculative execution, leaking sensitive data despite software-level protections.

November 14, 2025

by Yash Gupta

· 1,710 Views · 1 Like

Proactive vs Reactive: Rethinking Your AWS Monitoring Approach

Dynamic AWS environments require both reactive and proactive monitoring approaches for secure and reliable operations. Learn about their differences and best practices.

November 14, 2025

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,220 Views · 1 Like

Databricks vs Snowflake: Complete Architecture Mapping for Enterprise AI and Big Data

This guide maps core data, big data, and AI/ML concepts between Databricks and Snowflake, with examples, diagrams, and a framework for choosing or combining the two.

November 13, 2025

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 7,484 Views · 7 Likes

Versioned Caching: A Practical Pattern for High-Performance Lookup Data

A practical guide to versioned caching for static lookup data using cache-control headers, local storage, and data version synchronization between client and server.

November 13, 2025

by Artsiom Lazouski

· 1,883 Views · 1 Like

When Memory Overflows: Too Many ApplicationContexts in Spring Integration Tests

Spring Boot makes integration testing incredibly convenient: you have the entire application up and running in your test. But sometimes you can see memory usage spikes.

November 13, 2025

by Constantin Kwiatkowski

· 4,715 Views · 7 Likes

DocumentDB Goes Cloud-Native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator

Deploy, manage, and scale DocumentDB on Kubernetes with the new open-source DocumentDB Operator — cloud-native, PostgreSQL-based, and MongoDB-compatible.

November 13, 2025

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 3,096 Views · 2 Likes

How 8x8 Saved and Boosted Performance 30% by Adopting Ampere®

8x8 scaled Jitsi during COVID by moving to Ampere-based Arm64 OCI instances, cutting costs up to 30% and boosting video performance with minimal effort.

November 13, 2025

by Scott Fulton III

· 1,583 Views · 1 Like