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From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026
Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.
July 24, 2026
by Nathan Smith
· 2,881 Views · 1 Like
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The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability
Agentic SRE speeds up incident response, but it also requires clear guardrails, strong observability, and human oversight.
July 23, 2026
by Neel Shah
· 4,866 Views · 1 Like
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Why AI-Generated Code Fails Security Reviews 45% of the Time
AI coding tools produce security flaws in 45% of outputs, yet developers trust the code more despite no security gains in two years.
July 23, 2026
by sunil paidi
· 3,118 Views
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Stop Writing If-Else Spaghetti: Architecting Cleaner Java with the Strategy Pattern
Stop writing messy nested conditionals. Learn how to combine Java Enums, Functional Interfaces, and Spring to build a scalable Strategy Pattern.
July 23, 2026
by Rahul Tewari
· 7,578 Views · 3 Likes
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API Testing Frameworks: How to Pick the Right One and Actually Use It Well
Learn how to choose the right API testing framework, including REST Assured, Supertest, pytest, Postman, Karate, and Keploy, for better API test automation.
July 23, 2026
by Himanshu Mandhyan
· 3,222 Views · 1 Like
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Why MCP Servers Lose Session State Behind Load Balancers
Moving an MCP server behind a load balancer changes how sessions behave, and can break long-running tool calls without obvious errors.
July 22, 2026
by Tanushree Das
· 5,434 Views · 2 Likes
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Refresh Token Rotation in Node.js: Stopping Token Theft Without Logging Users Out
Implementing refresh token rotation with reuse detection, a pattern that limits the damage of a stolen token while keeping legitimate users logged in.
July 22, 2026
by Bilal Azam
· 3,353 Views
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React 19 Killed Half My Performance Optimization Code, and I'm Grateful
React 19's compiler eliminated most of my useMemo and useCallback code. Table virtualization, optimistic updates, and route splitting still need manual attention.
July 22, 2026
by Rohit G
· 5,796 Views · 1 Like
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Will AI Keep Us Stuck in 2020 Architectures?
AI coding assistants are deeply fluent in current Spring conventions, which raises a real question: does that lock architecture into 2020-era patterns? It turns out, no.
July 21, 2026
by Daniel Sagenschneider
· 3,331 Views · 1 Like
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Hardening MCP Gateways: Mitigating July 28 Security Risks in Java Applications
The latest MCP updates introduce security risks like protocol confusion. Quarkus mitigates these vectors using strict request filtering and enterprise security layers.
July 21, 2026
by Daniel Oh DZone Core CORE
· 3,539 Views
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Why Do Some Proxies Work Fine for Search But Fail Once You Start Filtering Results?
Root searches are cached and easy to access. Filtering forces requests to hit the backend database directly, triggering stricter anti-bot checks that block basic proxies.
July 21, 2026
by xiyun chen
· 2,516 Views
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Spec-Driven Development Renamed an Old Problem; It Didn't Solve It
Spec-driven development improves AI coding, but keeping specs in sync remains the same challenge teams have faced with docs and READMEs for years.
July 21, 2026
by Sam K
· 4,034 Views · 1 Like
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Reducing CI Execution Time Using Impact-Based Test Selection Across Repositories
CI optimization using Git diff and JGit to selectively run impacted Karate tests, reducing regression execution while preserving safe fallback coverage.
July 21, 2026
by Raakesh Rajagopalan
· 3,961 Views
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Scaling Row-Level Security With ABAC on Databricks Unity Catalog
Learn how to scale row-level security in Databricks Unity Catalog using a tag-driven ABAC pattern that reduces maintenance and simplifies onboarding.
July 20, 2026
by Sriram Vadlamani
· 2,655 Views
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Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026
Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report. Read it. It's the most comprehensive look at AI in production available now.
July 20, 2026
by AJAY DEVINENI
· 4,015 Views · 1 Like
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7 Essential Guardrails for Building AI SRE Agents
AI agents can take over the first minutes of incident response, but only with the right boundaries. Seven guardrails that keep an SRE agent from becoming the outage.
July 20, 2026
by Akhilesh Rao Meesala
· 2,642 Views · 3 Likes
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Fix Circular Dependencies in PostgreSQL Row-Level Security With SECURITY DEFINER Functions
Circular RLS policy dependencies in PostgreSQL silently return no rows. Here is why it happens and how SECURITY DEFINER functions fix it.
July 20, 2026
by Lex Mulier
· 2,451 Views · 1 Like
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Security Is a Platform Property, Not a Pipeline Step
Security works best when it is built into the platform: Terraform guardrails, CI/CD checks, and golden path templates make secure delivery the default.
July 20, 2026
by Naveen Kalapala
· 2,570 Views
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The Agent Security Split: Tool Layer vs Sandbox Layer
Why enterprise agent security requires decoupling the tool layer from the sandbox layer, and how the helmdeck + NVIDIA OpenShell architecture enforces it.
July 20, 2026
by Tosin Akinosho
· 1,899 Views
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Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That
Agent systems discard the reasoning behind decisions. Capture workflow IDs, semantic logs, and prompt context before production deployment.
July 17, 2026
by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla
· 36,421 Views · 2 Likes
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