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Debugging Performance Regressions in High-Scale Java Web Services: A Systematic Approach

High-scale Java systems degrade quietly, minor regressions in GC, logging, or threads can cascade into latency and revenue loss.

November 11, 2025

by Karthik Puthraya

· 4,548 Views · 1 Like

Gatherers in Java: What They Are and Why They Matter

With Stream API, developers could only customize terminal operations using Collector. Stream Gatherers allow developers to define custom intermediate operations.

November 11, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 5,168 Views · 8 Likes

Creating an MCP Server With Spring AI

This article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Spring AI and explains the advantages of using MCP.

November 11, 2025

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 5,420 Views · 6 Likes

Decentralized Identity Management: The Future of Privacy and Security

As more of our information goes digital and cybersecurity awareness increases, DIM feels like the natural next step of identity management.

November 11, 2025

by Ben Hartwig

· 3,912 Views · 2 Likes

Kubernetes Guardrail Extension: Bringing Compliance-as-Code to Your Browser

The Chrome extension validates Kubernetes YAML files directly inside GitHub and GitLab — empowering developers to catch compliance drifts early.

November 11, 2025

by Sajal Nigam

· 2,208 Views · 1 Like

Docker Security: 6 Practical Labs From Audit to AI Protection

Master Docker security with six practical labs that take you from basic configuration audits to advanced AI workload protection

November 10, 2025

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 5,348 Views · 6 Likes

How Tool-Call Observability Enables You to Support Reliable and Secure AI Agents

Observability is key for performance and data security. Here's how to build the essential components into your AI agent infrastructure

November 10, 2025

by Gil Feig

· 2,352 Views · 2 Likes

Event-Driven Architecture Patterns: Real-World Lessons From IoT Development

Real-world lessons on building event-driven systems for IoT and microservices — and model optimization with practical code examples.

November 10, 2025

by Bhavna Hirani

· 8,221 Views · 6 Likes

GitOps-Backed Agentic Operator for Kubernetes: Safe Auto-Remediation With LLMs and Policy Guardrails

Create an AI-driven Kubernetes Operator that analyzes failures, generates fixes with LLMs, validates them with OPA, and applies changes safely via GitOps.

November 10, 2025

by Sajal Nigam

· 5,365 Views · 4 Likes

Regression Analysis for Time Series Data: Models and Applications

Ready to use regression analysis for time series data? Explore how this method works in practice to effectively predict future outcomes and drive growth.

November 10, 2025

by Oleksandr Stefanovskyi

· 1,799 Views · 1 Like

Understanding Proxies and the Importance of Japanese Proxies in Modern Networking

Understand how proxies work and why Japanese proxies offer superior speed, security, and regional access for businesses, developers, and online tasks.

November 7, 2025

by Adamo Tonete

· 3,186 Views · 1 Like

Workload Identities: Bridging Infrastructure and Application Security

Replace static secrets with verifiable workload identities to close security gaps and build a stronger zero-trust foundation.

November 7, 2025

by Maria Pelagia

· 1,575 Views

A Beginner's Guide to Docker Compose

Learn how to use Docker Compose to manage multi-container setups. Help overcome the need of running multiple docker-run statements to manage applications.

November 6, 2025

by Akaash Vishal Hazarika

· 5,179 Views · 4 Likes

Unlocking Modernization: SUSE Virtualization on Arm64 With Harvester

Learn about how SUSE Virtualization and Ampere enable energy-efficient cloud modernization with Arm64 support, unifying VMs and containers on one platform.

November 6, 2025

by Craig Hardy

· 3,397 Views · 2 Likes

A Beginner's Guide to Essential Commands to Fix Container Setup Issues

The five essential commands that all developers should know in order to develop and build applications in Docker. This will pinpoint the exact reasons for failure.

November 6, 2025

by Akaash Vishal Hazarika

· 3,737 Views · 4 Likes

A Practical Guide to Modernizing Data Serving Architectures Using DBSQL

Learn how we replaced our traditional RDS serving layer with direct lakehouse querying to improve performance, reduce cost, and achieve real-time data freshness.

November 6, 2025

by PRAVEEN DOOTAGANI

· 3,112 Views

The JVM Pause That Wasn't: A War Story

A high-throughput Java service was stalling. The culprit? Stop-the-World GC pauses were blocked by synchronous log writes to a busy disk.

November 6, 2025

by Nataraj Mocherla

· 3,881 Views · 11 Likes

Bridging the Divide: Tactical Security Approaches for Vendor Integration in Hybrid Architectures

Learn about real-world hybrid security use cases and learn tactical strategies for securely integrating vendor software in cloud and on-prem environments.

November 5, 2025

by Dipankar Saha

· 2,013 Views · 2 Likes

Monolith vs Microservices vs Modulith

Monolithic and microservices architecture have been widely adopted, while modulithic architecture has been gaining traction. Learn about their differences and benefits.

November 5, 2025

by RENJITH RAMACHANDRAN

· 2,911 Views · 1 Like

Modular Monoliths Explained: Structure, Strategy, and Scalability

Modular monoliths: one deployable unit, cleanly split into modules. Simpler ops, strong boundaries, no microservice overhead.

November 4, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 3,388 Views · 5 Likes

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