Software Design and Architecture Resources

Securing Cloud Applications: Best Practices for Developers

Securing cloud applications requires IAM, encryption, API security, monitoring, DevSecOps, Zero Trust, compliance, and proactive threat detection.

August 21, 2025

by Bhanuprakash Madupati

· 53,902 Views · 9 Likes

AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis: Introducing the Incident Investigator

Resolve cloud incidents faster with the AI Incident Investigator — an agent that finds the root cause of production issues and explains them in plain English.

August 21, 2025

by Marija Naumovska

CORE

· 3,012 Views · 3 Likes

Operationalizing the OWASP AI Testing Guide: Building Secure AI Foundations Through NHI Governance

Align your AI pipelines with OWASP AI Testing principles using identity-based insights to monitor, enforce, and audit secrets and token usage best practices.

August 20, 2025

by Dwayne McDaniel

· 1,480 Views · 3 Likes

MCP Client-Server Integration With Semantic Kernel

Learn to integrate Semantic Kernel with Azure OpenAI and MCP to discover tools, register them as functions, and enable AI agents to invoke them dynamically.

August 20, 2025

by Anup Rao

· 5,576 Views · 3 Likes

Amadeus Cloud Migration on Ampere Altra Instances

Amadeus migrated flight search workloads to Ampere ARM VMs on Azure, achieving better performance, efficiency, and hybrid deployment flexibility.

August 20, 2025

by Craig Hardy

· 2,873 Views · 5 Likes

Containerized Intelligence: Running LLMs at Scale Using Docker and Kubernetes

Deploy powerful LLMs easily using Docker and Kubernetes. Scale with GPUs, fine-tune models, and automate inference workloads effortlessly.

August 20, 2025

by Anjan Kumar Ayyadapu

· 11,907 Views · 5 Likes

Data Engineering for AI-Native Architectures: Designing Scalable, Cost-Optimized Data Pipelines to Power GenAI, Agentic AI, and Real-Time Insights

AI-native data platforms demand more than upgrades — learn how teams are building scalable systems for RAG, streaming, embeddings, and orchestration.

August 19, 2025

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 3,295 Views · 2 Likes

Not only AI: What Else Drives Team Performance Today?

Learn how a GenAI team improved performance by 20% in 3 months—without more tools or pressure, but with systems, clarity, and smarter product decisions.

August 19, 2025

by Kateryna Korotieieva

· 2,118 Views · 1 Like

What We Learned Migrating to a Pub/Sub Architecture: Real-World Case Studies from High-Traffic Systems

Kafka-powered migration of an e-commerce platform—focused on scalability, fault tolerance, and clean event-driven design.

August 19, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 8,401 Views · 4 Likes

Building SQLGenie: A Natural Language to SQL Query Generator with LLM Integration

This article explores the journey of building SQLGenie, testing various Language Models (LLMs) to find the optimal solution for converting natural language to SQL queries

August 19, 2025

by Sangame Krishnamani

· 4,241 Views · 5 Likes

Building a Secure and Unified Data Platform

Learn to build a secure GCP stack using a custom VPC, VM with private access, managed Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, and BigQuery for real-time federated queries.

August 19, 2025

by Vani Gundu

· 5,836 Views · 2 Likes

The Kill Switch: A Coder's Silent Act of Revenge

A bitter developer plants a hidden kill switch, exposing the dangers of insider threats and how a single line of code can cripple entire systems from within.

August 18, 2025

by Omkar Bhalekar

· 2,421 Views · 1 Like

Expert Techniques to Trim Your Docker Images and Speed Up Build Times

Use -slim base images, multi-stage builds, smart layer caching, and chained RUN commands to build lean, fast, and production-ready Docker images.

August 18, 2025

by Chirag Agrawal

· 4,564 Views · 5 Likes

Real-Time Analytics Using Zero-ETL for MySQL

Learn how to set up a zero-ETL integration from Amazon RDS for MySQL to Amazon Redshift using AWS CLI for real-time analytics without complex pipelines.

August 18, 2025

by Harpreet Kaur Chawla

· 1,953 Views · 2 Likes

Architecting Compound AI Systems for Scalable Enterprise Workflows

Learn how to architect modular and secure agentic workflows using compound AI systems for scalable enterprise automation.

August 18, 2025

by Srinivas Sandiri

· 2,359 Views · 2 Likes

Green DevOps: Building Sustainable Pipelines and Energy-Aware Cloud Deployments

This article explores how teams are measuring energy usage, optimizing pipelines, and deploying eco-conscious applications using modern tools and techniques.

August 15, 2025

by Gideon Ali

· 3,061 Views · 2 Likes

How to Architect a Compliant Cloud for Healthcare Clients (Azure Edition)

We share how we built a secure, compliant cloud on Azure for healthcare clients using native services like RBAC, CMK encryption, and policy enforcement.

August 15, 2025

by Kishore Thota

· 3,515 Views · 3 Likes

How to Build ML Experimentation Platforms You Can Trust?

Trustworthy ML needs more than dashboards — it relies on layered systems with monitoring, testing, and statistical tools to ensure reliable experimentation.

August 15, 2025

by Arun Thomas

· 1,890 Views · 1 Like

Consumer Ecosystem Design for Efficient Configuration Based Product Rollouts

Distributed architectures enable insurance teams to build scalable, configurable ecosystems—minimizing code changes and accelerating time to market.

August 15, 2025

by Ashish Shetti

· 1,710 Views · 1 Like

Virtualized Containers vs. Bare Metal: The Winner Is…

With the performance of VMs rapidly increasing, is weighing the benefits of containers running on VMs versus bare metal as straightforward as it used to be?

August 15, 2025

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 5,066 Views · 7 Likes

The Latest Software Design and Architecture Topics