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Your Email Security Is a DNS Configuration Problem

Every email authentication control is really a DNS record, so most email security failures are DNS mechanics, not protocol misunderstandings.

September 8, 2026

by Vadim Ivanov

· 1,879 Views · 1 Like

How Performance Engineers Find and Fix Hidden System Bottlenecks

Performance engineers diagnose end-to-end bottlenecks using data over intuition, turning hours of system delays into smooth, efficient execution.

September 7, 2026

by Alex Vakulov

CORE

· 2,690 Views · 2 Likes

Multilingual Conversational Payments Chatbot Architecture: Enterprise RAG With Safety Guardrails, Human Handoff, and Multi-Modal Support

A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline that grounds LLM responses directly in your website/document content to prevent hallucinations.

September 4, 2026

by Sriram Ramakrishnan

· 2,830 Views · 2 Likes

Handling Large API Responses Without Freezing the Client: A Practical Architecture With Temporal, Kafka, and RAG

Use Temporal for orchestration, Kafka for chunk processing, object storage for payloads, and RAG to retrieve relevant data without overwhelming clients.

September 4, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,971 Views · 3 Likes

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Spring Boot pods reload the same classes on every start. A CDS training run inside your Dockerfile caches that work once and cuts startup time roughly in half.

September 3, 2026

by Garima Agarwal

· 3,699 Views · 4 Likes

The Bottleneck of Scaling

Learn how modern languages help developers take care of behind-the-scenes file descriptor management, kernel memory management, and heap management.

September 3, 2026

by Vishal Bhatia

· 3,018 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Python API Client That Doesn’t Fall Apart When the API Misbehaves

Build a safer Python API client with timeouts, selective retries, exponential backoff, jitter, and better handling of rate limits and temporary failures.

September 3, 2026

by Ally Garcia

· 2,441 Views · 4 Likes

Gossip on Cryptography: Part 3

In Part 3 of this casual, jargon-free series, we break down hashing, salting, rainbow table attacks, and asymmetric encryption (RSA) — all with everyday analogies.

September 3, 2026

by Sahil Aggarwal

· 2,649 Views · 4 Likes

Making Running Optional: Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes With Agent Substrate

Learn how an early-stage open-source project separates workload lifecycle from compute allocation for bursty, stateful, and massively concurrent AI workloads.

September 3, 2026

by Mayowa Fajobi

· 2,919 Views · 1 Like

Portable Intelligence Architecture: When the Runtime Becomes the Hard Problem

As AI inference moves closer to live context, the hard problem shifts from model quality to runtime design. Portable Intelligence Architecture solves this.

September 2, 2026

by Punit Shah

· 2,595 Views · 2 Likes

Node.js Microservices Architecture: A Complete Guide

This guide walks you through the core architecture components and design patterns needed to build scalable microservices with Node.js and explains when to use each.

September 2, 2026

by Megha Verma

· 4,022 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond Agent-Washing: The Engineering Principles Behind Production-Ready AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents need secure execution boundaries, deterministic logic, identity, governance, and auditing—not just intelligent models—to safely act in production.

September 2, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 3,225 Views · 1 Like

Ampere PMU Profiler: A Guide to Microarchitecture Profiling

APP uses PMU metrics to pinpoint CPU stalls, cache misses, and other microarchitectural bottlenecks on Ampere processors

September 1, 2026

by Bhakti Hinduja

· 2,948 Views · 3 Likes

How to Detect AI-Generated Images in C# Using an API

Build a C# workflow that analyzes uploaded images for signs of AI generation and turns the returned risk score into a practical application decision.

September 1, 2026

by Brian O'Neill

CORE

· 3,472 Views · 2 Likes

Designing a Dynamic Multi-Hierarchy Security Model for Analytics and Decision Support Systems

How we built row-level security across Workday HCM, Salesforce, Snowflake, Power BI, and Adaptive Planning that survives a reorganization.

August 31, 2026

by Yadi Reddy Mangannagari

· 2,722 Views · 2 Likes

Securing Database Connections With Mutual TLS

Mutual TLS strengthens database security by authenticating both clients and servers, reducing the risks associated with password-based authentication.

August 31, 2026

by Rahul Roy

· 3,034 Views · 1 Like

Why Ping-Based Uptime Checks Are Failing Modern SaaS Architectures

Legacy server ping checks are obsolete. Synthetic monitoring solves this by simulating real user journeys to validate that actual business workflows function correctly.

August 31, 2026

by Arun Kulkarni

· 1,962 Views · 1 Like

Inside terraform-provider-archive: A Memory Pattern From 2016 That Scales With Your Lambdas

archive_file buffers whole files in memory. Enough lambdas and terraform apply OOM-kills your CI runner. The fix is ten lines of Go.

August 31, 2026

by Oleg Mamiev

· 1,979 Views · 2 Likes

Secure AI Systems: Defending Enterprise Applications Against Agent-Era Threats

Secure enterprise AI agents with zero-trust, prompt defenses, identity isolation, secure orchestration, and continuous observability against emerging agent-era threats.

August 31, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,670 Views · 4 Likes

How to Monitor AI Models Without Drowning in Alerts

In this article, we will discuss monitoring AI models wisely. Prioritize actionable alerts so that real issues stand out instead of getting lost in the noise.

August 28, 2026

by Aditya Shrivastava

· 3,129 Views · 3 Likes

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