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Best Practices to Make Your Data AI-Ready

In this article, I share best practices for building a high-quality data management framework to support AI initiatives.

March 9, 2026

by Mykhailo Kopyl

· 4,590 Views · 1 Like

Why Low Latency Financial Systems Still Favor Determinism

Low-latency financial systems value predictable worst-case behavior over speed. Near execution, control, determinism, and debuggability outweigh abstraction.

March 9, 2026

by Krishna Kandi

· 1,627 Views · 1 Like

Software Testing in LLMs: The Shift Towards Autonomous Testing

Software testing is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades in the LLM era. Intelligent testing and self-verifying agents redefine testing across SDLC pipelines.

March 6, 2026

by Kathiresan Jayabalan

· 2,987 Views

Hands-On With Kubernetes 1.35

Tested K8s 1.35's four key features on Azure VM: zero-downtime pod resizing, gang scheduling, structured auth, and node capabilities. All scripts and configs on GitHub.

March 6, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,986 Views · 1 Like

Best OpenLens Alternatives for Kubernetes Visibility in 2025

OpenLens is a solid Kubernetes IDE, but as environments scale, teams need alternatives with better multi-cluster visibility and governance.

March 5, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 1,967 Views

Clean Code in the Age of Copilot: Why Semantics Matter More Than Ever

Your codebase is essentially a prompt: messy abstractions and "God Classes" pollute the context window, causing AI models to hallucinate or generate bugs.

March 5, 2026

by Nikita Kothari

· 1,723 Views · 3 Likes

Autoscaling Is Not Elasticity

Autoscaling is reactive, not resilient. Without caps, metrics, or overrides, it can worsen failures. True elasticity requires policy, testing, and bottleneck awareness.

March 5, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,788 Views

A Transaction-Grade Performance Blueprint for Spring Boot FinTech Microservices (Tracing, Histograms, and Kubernetes)

A practical guide for improving FinTech microservice latency and reliability on Kubernetes using OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and SLOs.

March 4, 2026

by Sibasis Padhi

· 2,805 Views · 1 Like

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Setup (Password + SSH Key Users) Using Lambda Identity Provider + S3

Deploy a managed AWS Transfer Family SFTP server backed by S3, using a Lambda identity provider for password and SSH-key logins.

March 4, 2026

by Praveen Chaitanya Jakku

· 4,228 Views

Lessons From Our Network Crash (And What I Wish I'd Known Sooner)

Network administration done right requires data-driven strategies and real-time insights that prevent problems before they affect users.

March 4, 2026

by Sascha Neumeier

· 933 Views

Infrastructure as Code Is Not Enough

Learn about why Infrastructure as Code alone can't ensure reliability and how intent, policy, and feedback loops create self-correcting, resilient systems.

March 4, 2026

by Venkatesan Thirumalai

· 2,641 Views

Implementing Decentralized Data Architecture on Google BigQuery: From Data Mesh to AI Excellence

Traditional centralized data lakes don’t scale for AI. A Data Mesh not only decentralizes data ownership by domain but also enforces federated governance.

March 3, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 2,612 Views · 1 Like

What Actually Breaks During Large-Scale S/4HANA Conversions (And How to Prevent It)

S/4HANA migrations break custom ABAP code and interfaces unless you proactively refactor code, SQL, and integrations to support the new data model and semantics.

March 3, 2026

by Deepika Paturu

· 1,265 Views

Open-Source GitOps at the Edge: Deploying to Thousands of Clusters With Rancher Fleet

Establish GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines to create zero-downtime deployments across thousands of edge locations with automated rollbacks.

March 3, 2026

by Prakash Velusamy

· 972 Views

AWS Step Functions + AI: Smarter Orchestration in Modern Applications

Learn to combine AWS Step Functions with Generative AI for scalable orchestration, featuring architecture patterns and code examples

March 2, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,549 Views

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug

Cloud systems scale — but unchecked, they can bankrupt you. Measure, automate, and optimize costs to keep your infrastructure resilient and your budget intact.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,918 Views

Kubernetes for DevOps Engineers: Mastering Modern Patterns

Kubernetes v1.35 marks a turning point: cgroups v1 is deprecated, Ingress-NGINX is retiring, and Gateway API becomes the ingress standard.

March 2, 2026

by Parthiban Rajasekaran

· 1,115 Views · 1 Like

Hands-On with Azure Local via the Azure Portal

This guide explains how to deploy LocalBox with Azure Bicep and create Azure VMs, covering setup, networking, images, and deployment without physical hardware.

March 2, 2026

by Sanjeev Kumar

· 1,271 Views

Code Rewriting With AI and TDD

Exploring the use of TDD and AI to rewrite projects with architectural debt, and how TDD in these cases can be a guardrail against hallucinations.

March 2, 2026

by Baubak Gandomi

· 2,048 Views

Mastering the AWS Well-Architected AI Stack: A Deep Dive into ML, GenAI, and Sustainability Lenses

Use AWS’s ML, GenAI, and Sustainability lenses together to build AI systems that are production-ready, governed, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,622 Views · 1 Like

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