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Secrets Sprawl and AI: Why Your Non-Human Identities Need Attention Before You Deploy That LLM

Your RAG implementation can expose secrets in some unexpected ways. Secure your LLM deployments and scrub knowledge bases to prevent your secrets from leaking.

May 20, 2025

by Dwayne McDaniel

· 3,463 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build Real-Time BI Systems: Architecture, Code, and Best Practices

This guide walks you through building a real-time Business Intelligence (BI) pipeline using tools like Apache Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and Apache Druid.

May 20, 2025

by Jagjot Bhardwaj

· 2,964 Views · 4 Likes

How Kubernetes Cluster Sizing Affects Performance and Cost Efficiency in Cloud Deployments

Learn how Kubernetes cluster sizing impacts performance and cost efficiency. Learn best practices for optimal resource management and cloud deployment success.

May 20, 2025

by Hitesh Jodhavat

· 6,318 Views · 2 Likes

Cloud Security and Privacy: Best Practices to Mitigate the Risks

Ransomware attacks, outages, and human errors all threaten your data. What cloud security and privacy measures should you take to address them?

May 20, 2025

by Milosz Jesis

· 3,406 Views · 3 Likes

Operational Principles, Architecture, Benefits, and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems that generate human-like text by learning from extensive datasets and employing deep learning neural networks.

May 19, 2025

by Venkata Suresh Babu Chilluri

· 3,489 Views · 1 Like

Metrics at a Glance for Production Clusters

Cut through the complexity and spotlight the essential metrics you need on your radar to quickly detect and address issues in production Kubernetes clusters.

May 19, 2025

by Ruturaj Kadikar

· 4,259 Views · 2 Likes

The Smart Way to Talk to Your Database: Why Hybrid API + NL2SQL Wins

Plain-English questions against a live MySQL database in DBConvert Streams — and the five-table joins text-to-SQL wrote to answer them.

May 19, 2025

by Dmitry Narizhnykh

CORE

· 7,537 Views · 3 Likes

Building Resilient Identity Systems: Lessons from Securing Billions of Authentication Requests

Learn how resilient identity systems combine AI, automation, and zero-trust to defend against threats while maintaining secure and seamless user access.

May 19, 2025

by Kalyan Chakradhar Regula

· 3,411 Views

How To Build Resilient Microservices Using Circuit Breakers and Retries: A Developer’s Guide To Surviving

To prevent microservices from crashing due to flaky APIs, use circuit breakers, retries, and fallbacks. Build systems that fail smart, not hard.

May 19, 2025

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 6,327 Views · 4 Likes

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Beyond the Basics

IaC has matured beyond basic scripting to offer scalable, secure cloud ops with reusable modules, testing, policy-as-code, and built-in cost optimization.

May 16, 2025

by Neha Surendranath

· 5,420 Views · 1 Like

Endpoint Security Controls: Designing a Secure Endpoint Architecture, Part 2

This outlines a layered approach to endpoint security, covering Zero Trust, Secure by Default, device approval, hardening, patching, malware protection, and encryption.

May 16, 2025

by Akanksha Pathak

CORE

· 5,274 Views · 1 Like

Secure by Design: Modernizing Authentication With Centralized Access and Adaptive Signals

Discover a scalable approach to centralized authentication using modern identity providers, reducing risk and improving access across enterprise systems.

May 16, 2025

by Sumana Malkapuram

· 3,421 Views

Accelerating Debugging in Integration Testing: An Efficient Search-Based Workflow for Impact Localization

Parallelized 5-Point Adaptive Search boosts debugging in CI/CD by rapidly finding failing builds using parallelism and early test result analysis.

May 16, 2025

by Arun Vishwanathan

· 3,076 Views · 1 Like

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis in SRE: Enhancing Incident Resolution

This article examines how AI is transforming root cause analysis (RCA) in Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident resolution and improving system reliability.

May 16, 2025

by Nikhil Kapoor

· 4,893 Views · 5 Likes

AWS to Azure Migration: A Cloudy Journey of Challenges and Triumphs

Migrating from AWS to Azure isn’t a simple swap — it needs planning, testing, and adaptation, from cost benefits to Microsoft integration.

May 15, 2025

by Abhi Sangani

· 5,550 Views

Integrating Google BigQuery With Amazon SageMaker

This guide explains how to connect Google BigQuery to Amazon SageMaker Studio using Data Wrangler for real-time machine learning.

May 15, 2025

by Shamnad Mohamed Shaffi

· 5,526 Views · 1 Like

Endpoint Security Controls: Designing a Secure Endpoint Architecture, Part 1

This outlines a layered approach to endpoint security, covering Zero Trust, Secure by Default, device approval, hardening, patching, malware protection, and encryption.

May 15, 2025

by Akanksha Pathak

CORE

· 5,784 Views · 2 Likes

Detection and Mitigation of Lateral Movement in Cloud Networks

Learn how hackers bypass lateral movement detection, their advanced techniques, and practical strategies like microsegmentation and AI to secure your network.

May 15, 2025

by Tanvir Kaur

· 6,700 Views · 1 Like

Optimizing Integration Workflows With Spark Structured Streaming and Cloud Services

Learn how Spark Structured Streaming and cloud services optimize real-time data integration with scalable, fault-tolerant workflows for modern applications.

May 15, 2025

by Bharath Muddarla

· 7,810 Views · 3 Likes

Designing a Java Connector for Software Integrations

A Java connector unites different systems by allowing them to send information effectively while making crucial data freely available through interoperable interfaces.

May 15, 2025

by Anant Wairagade

· 7,535 Views · 1 Like

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