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Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,721 Views · 4 Likes

Spark Performance Deep Dive on Databricks: Shuffle Tuning, Skew Handling, and Z-Ordering With Delta Lake + Unity Catalog

Learn Spark performance tuning on Databricks with shuffle optimization, skew handling, AQE, broadcast joins, and Delta Lake Z-Ordering best practices.

July 31, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,748 Views

Securing Loop Engineering: Six Trust Boundaries for Autonomous Agents

Loop engineering makes agents act repeatedly. Security decides which inputs, credentials, memories, evaluators, and triggers are allowed to influence action.

July 31, 2026

by Jithu Paulose

· 1,662 Views · 1 Like

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 2,792 Views · 2 Likes

SRE Best Practices for Production Alerting

Learn how to reduce alert noise, improve production monitoring, and create more effective alerts for large-scale distributed systems.

July 30, 2026

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 2,207 Views · 1 Like

The Trust Surface: The Missing Complement to Attack Surface

Trust Surface framework for measuring risks from trusted identities, credentials, AI agents, and third-party integrations beyond the traditional attack surface.

July 30, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,441 Views · 1 Like

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,230 Views · 1 Like

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,774 Views · 3 Likes

Building a Config-Driven SOAP/REST Integration Layer: One Service, Many Protocols

Learn how to build protocol-agnostic middleware that supports SOAP and REST integrations with configurable authentication and customer-specific transformations.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,844 Views

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 8,823 Views · 1 Like

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

A practical framework for graduated autonomy in self-healing infrastructure, covering three remediation tiers and policy-driven blast-radius controls for cloud SRE teams.

July 29, 2026

by Shraddhaben Gajjar

· 3,418 Views · 2 Likes

How I Built a Star Wars Grogu Product Research Agent With Codex, Lark, and SerpApi

Built with Codex, SerpApi, OpenAI, and Lark, this lightweight AI agent compares Amazon products across the U.S. and Japan using live search data.

July 29, 2026

by Magenta Qin

· 2,114 Views · 1 Like

What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker

At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.

July 29, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,795 Views · 2 Likes

How to Protect Your AI Agents from Prompt Injection Attacks: An Active Defense Approach

Stop just blocking prompt injections. Learn how to use MIRAGE to trap AI agents in honeypots and force them to burn their own API tokens.

July 29, 2026

by Victoria Fonareva

· 3,338 Views

From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.

July 28, 2026

by DZone Staff

· 12,027 Views · 1 Like

Microservices Architecture in Production: 7 Engineering Decisions That Determine Success or Failure

Microservices succeed when they're designed with clear service boundaries, reliable communication, independent data ownership, and strong operational practices.

July 28, 2026

by Mahipal Nehra

· 2,971 Views · 3 Likes

Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 2: The Guardrails

Learn how production AI agents use tool contracts, authorization scopes, audit trails, and risk-based human approval to safely take autonomous actions.

July 28, 2026

by Ram Ravishankar

· 2,260 Views

OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors

A look at the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) that has been created by the CNCF OpenTelemetry project and how it could deliver beyond OTel's needs.

July 27, 2026

by Phil Wilkins

· 2,245 Views

Designing Secure REST APIs With Spring Boot

Learn how to secure Spring Boot REST APIs with JWT validation, method-level authorization, input validation, rate limiting, CORS, secure logging, and more.

July 27, 2026

by Srivenkata Gantikota

· 3,288 Views · 1 Like

Securing Model Context Protocol Servers: 4 Gates From Code to Production

Secure MCP servers against prompt injection, data leaks, and denial-of-wallet with four practical, OWASP-aligned gates from code to production. Runnable code.

July 24, 2026

by Viquar Khan

CORE

· 4,067 Views · 2 Likes

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