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DevSecConflict: How Google Project Zero and FFmpeg Went Viral For All the Wrong Reasons

The tension between security and open source highlights the struggle over responsibility as AI uncovers vulnerabilities faster than we can respond.

November 24, 2025

by Katie Paxton-Fear

· 7,144 Views · 6 Likes

When Chatbots Go Rogue: Securing Conversational AI in Cyber Defense

Chatbots boost business but pose data risks. Strong security and AI risk management protect trust, compliance, and customer safety.

November 24, 2025

by Arun Goyal

· 3,183 Views · 1 Like

Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System in Java With Spring AI, Vertex AI, and BigQuery

Build a Java RAG application using Spring Boot, Vertex AI embeddings, BigQuery vector search, and a web UI for interactive PDF-based question answering.

November 24, 2025

by Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

· 7,744 Views · 8 Likes

Creating an MCP Client With Spring AI

This blog post outlines the creation of an MCP client using Spring AI, building upon a previously established MCP server.

November 24, 2025

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 5,325 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying a Serverless Application on Google Cloud

Deploy a Python serverless app on Google Cloud Functions with ease. Learn setup, deployment steps, best practices, and how to secure and optimize your function.

November 20, 2025

by Neel Shah

· 3,019 Views · 3 Likes

The Slow/Fast Call Orchestration: Parallelizing for Perception

By delivering a fast, lightweight response first and upgrading it with a slower, richer one later, slow/fast orchestration creates the illusion of zero latency.

November 20, 2025

by VIVEK KATARYA

· 2,483 Views · 2 Likes

How I Cut Kubernetes Debugging Time by 80% With One Bash Script

Built a bash script that analyzes Kubernetes clusters in 60 seconds, generating HTML/JSON/Markdown reports. Saved 70 minutes daily across 8 clusters.

November 20, 2025

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 5,939 Views · 4 Likes

Kubernetes CSI Drivers

What does a storage standard specification look like? Why do we need it, and which problem does it solve? How does it work in practice, and what impact can it have?

November 20, 2025

by Ramesh Sinha

· 3,440 Views · 2 Likes

Building Smarter Systems: Architecting AI Agents for Real-World Tasks

Event-driven agents use rules, not AI, to build scalable, reactive systems that automate tasks, boost resilience, and reduce complexity

November 20, 2025

by Vinod Veeramachaneni

· 2,280 Views

Iceberg Compaction and Fine-Grained Access Control: Performance Challenges and Solutions

Implementing fine-grained access control on Apache Iceberg can create major performance challenges. Learn how Glue, Redshift, and Athena handle FGAC at scale.

November 19, 2025

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,520 Views · 2 Likes

Zero Trust in API Gateways: Building Bulletproof Infrastructure With Istio and OPA

Traditional API security is broken. Perimeter defenses can't protect distributed microservices architectures where 83% of web traffic is now API-based.

November 19, 2025

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 3,002 Views · 2 Likes

DPDK Cryptography Build and Tuning Guide

This is a guide to building and tuning DPDK with ARMv8, OpenSSL, and IPSec crypto libraries on Ampere processors for optimal packet-processing performance.

November 19, 2025

by David Zeng

· 1,813 Views · 1 Like

Why Your Architecture Team Is Slow (And It's Not the Technology)

Stop treating decisions as events. Start measuring decision throughput, consensus latency, and time-to-clarity. Implement async-first patterns.

November 19, 2025

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 3,228 Views · 2 Likes

Smart AI Agent Targeting With MCP Tools

Transform your basic multi-agent system with business tiers, geographic targeting, and MCP tool integration using LaunchDarkly AI Configs.

November 19, 2025

by Scarlett Attensil

· 2,038 Views · 2 Likes

From Zero to Local AI in 10 Minutes With Ollama + Python

In under ten minutes, install Ollama, pull a modern model, call it from Python or REST, and ship a repeatable Modelfile with a quick glance at the security checklist.

November 18, 2025

by Parthiban Rajasekaran

· 24,663 Views · 10 Likes

Building Gateway Analytics: My Journey to Making API Traffic Data Useful

Learn how to use OpenSearch to turn raw API gateway logs into insights, monitor performance, detect failures, and optimize distributed systems.

November 18, 2025

by Rihana Suhail

· 2,071 Views · 3 Likes

NVIDIA GPU Operator Explained: Simplifying GPU Workloads on Kubernetes

Learn how NVIDIA GPU Operator simplifies GPU management in Kubernetes. Explore features, setup steps, and best practices for AI/ML workloads.

November 18, 2025

by Sagar Parmar

· 3,524 Views · 1 Like

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

· 5,225 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

· 3,607 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

· 5,869 Views · 1 Like

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