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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

· 2,936 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

· 3,335 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

· 2,731 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

· 5,058 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

· 3,553 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

· 4,783 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

· 1,787 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

· 3,464 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

· 7,694 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

· 1,924 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

· 4,819 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

· 3,133 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

· 1,606 Views · 1 Like

Facilitate AI-Human Architectural Thinking

Three pillars of the thinking framework: landscape view, decisional view, and structural view — an effective architectural modeling approach.

November 12, 2025

by Sean Gu

· 4,647 Views · 2 Likes

The Terraform State Locking Migration You Need to Know About: Moving Beyond DynamoDB

What's happening: HashiCorp is deprecating DynamoDB-based state locking for Terraform's S3 backend. Native S3 locking is the new standard.

November 12, 2025

by kazeem mohammed

· 4,310 Views · 2 Likes

Compose Architecture, Done Right: MVI’s Unidirectional State vs. MVVM

TL;DR: Compose wants one-way data and a single UiState. MVI delivers that-fewer surprises, cleaner tests, and explicit effects.

November 12, 2025

by Mohan Sankaran

· 2,193 Views · 6 Likes

A Developer's Guide to Mastering Docker Networking Concepts

Learn the basics of creating Docker networks, the default network, and how to use Docker Compose to simplify the process of local development.

November 12, 2025

by Akaash Vishal Hazarika

· 3,312 Views · 5 Likes

GitLab CI/CD for Tenant-Specific ML Governance: Automating Model Registries in Databricks Unity Catalog on AWS

Automate multi-tenant ML governance in Databricks with GitLab CI/CD, ensuring secure, compliant model registration, validation, and deployment.

November 12, 2025

by Ankur Mahida

· 16,703 Views · 4 Likes

The DSPM Paradox: Perceived Controls for an Uncontrollable Data Landscape

You can't stop every burglar, but you can ensure your valuables are in a safe they can't crack. Why DSPM tools create an illusion of control in modern data security.

November 12, 2025

by Hamid Akhtar

· 1,365 Views

A Growing Security Concern: Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in Model Context Protocol Systems

Prompt injection can make AI assistants a privilege‑escalation risk. Learn attack patterns and layered defenses: isolation, sanitization, validation.

November 11, 2025

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 2,377 Views · 4 Likes

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