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Cloud Cost Optimization Was Hard; AI Cost Optimization Will Be Worse.

Cloud cost optimization was hard because cloud made infrastructure consumption easy; AI cost optimization will be worse because AI makes decision consumption easy.

July 15, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 5,366 Views · 3 Likes

Architecting Autonomous Network Ecosystems: From Reactive Monitoring to Agentic AI Orchestration

A strategic blueprint for integrating sophisticated multi-agent systems designed to drive proactive, zero-touch network operations.

July 15, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 4,464 Views · 2 Likes

Debugging and Performance Tuning in Pega Using PAL, Tracer, and Clipboard

Use PAL to find where time and memory go, Tracer to see which rule caused it, and Clipboard to confirm the state in that order, every time.

July 15, 2026

by Anil guntupalli

· 2,922 Views

Does 100% Code Coverage Mean Tested?

Learn why 100% code coverage doesn't guarantee software quality, and how behavior coverage and mutation testing provide more meaningful testing insights.

July 15, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 4,034 Views · 1 Like

How to Build a Brand Monitoring Dashboard With SerpApi and Python

Track your brand across Google News, YouTube, and online discussions in a single Python dashboard with data from SerpApi.

July 14, 2026

by Tomas Murua

· 3,743 Views · 1 Like

12 Factor Framework for Building Secure and Compliant Cloud Applications

Learn how a practical 12-factor framework embeds security, compliance, resilience, and governance into cloud-native applications.

July 14, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 3,144 Views · 3 Likes

Scaling Teams, Scaling Systems: Unlocking Developer Productivity With Platform Engineering

Platform engineering scales teams and systems, streamlines workflows, and reduces friction—driving faster delivery, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

July 14, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 3,046 Views · 1 Like

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

Learn eight AWS Glue ETL design principles for building production PySpark pipelines that are maintainable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.

July 14, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,553 Views · 2 Likes

Differential Flamegraphs in Java in Jeffrey Microscope

How to set up a secondary profile and pinpoint the precise frames responsible for a performance change between two JFR recordings.

July 14, 2026

by Petr Bouda

CORE

· 2,159 Views · 1 Like

API Facade vs. Orchestration vs. Eventing, Now With AI in the Loop

Discover architectural patterns for integrating AI into enterprise systems without sacrificing governance, reliability, observability, or loose coupling.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 3,072 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Zero-Trust Networking and Identity for Microsoft Foundry Agents

This article explains how to implement a zero-trust security architecture for Microsoft Foundry agents by combining identity-first authentication.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,895 Views

Machine Identity Debt: Why Human Identity Is No Longer Cloud Security's Primary Boundary

Machine identities now outnumber human ones in cloud environments. Learn how to secure workloads with modern identity governance and trust.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 6,641 Views · 1 Like

Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry

This article walks through building a production-ready multi-agent AI system using Microsoft's AI stack, focusing on the operational capabilities.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,237 Views

Performance Testing RAG Applications: Complete Engineering Guide

In this blog post, we will see how to perform a performance test on a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application properly, covering both speed and correctness.

July 13, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,362 Views · 1 Like

Goodbye, Skeleton Keys: Why Machine Identity Broke IAM, and What SPIFFE Is Doing About It

The Salesloft Drift breach showed why machine identity has outgrown IAM. Here’s how SPIFFE can reduce token sprawl and trust risk.

July 13, 2026

by Igboanugo David Ugochukwu

CORE

· 2,936 Views

Building Cross-Team SLO Contracts for Performance Accountability

Cross-team latency problems are accountability problems, not just profiling problems. An SLO contract is one way to solve this.

July 10, 2026

by Ujjwal Gulecha

· 3,300 Views

Service Industry Evolution: Beyond 99.9% Uptime With Evolving Technology

Learn how AI, observability, predictive maintenance, and resilience are helping service organizations move beyond reactive operations and improve uptime.

July 10, 2026

by Abhishek Sharma

· 3,602 Views · 3 Likes

Disaster Recovery as a Governance System

DR failures often occur due to unclear decision ownership. Treat recovery as a governed process with explicit modes, approvals, and evidence.

July 9, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 1,845 Views · 1 Like

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,373 Views

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,000 Views

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