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Setting Up a Data Catalog With Azure Purview and Collibra: What Three Attempts Taught Me

Setting up a data catalog isn’t just a tool problem. My work with Azure Purview and Collibra showed success depends on governance, metadata, and adoption.

May 27, 2026

by Kuladeep Sandra

· 4,963 Views

Beyond Partitioning and Z-Order: A Deep Dive into Liquid Clustering for Unity Catalog Managed Tables

Liquid Clustering replaces rigid partitioning and Z-Order with adaptive clustering in Unity Catalog, improving performance with less maintenance.

May 26, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 3,385 Views · 1 Like

Architecting an Embedded Efficiency Layer: A Platform Deep Dive into Day-Two Operational Tuning

Learn how platform teams can embed continuous optimization into internal developer platforms using GitOps, HITL workflows, and full-stack tuning.

May 26, 2026

by Graziano Casto

CORE

· 2,669 Views · 2 Likes

When Perfect Data Breaks: The Journey from Data Quality to Data Observability

Data quality checks often miss silent failures. Use data observability to monitor data in motion and catch issues traditional tools miss.

May 25, 2026

by Divyakumar Savla

· 2,151 Views

Build Self-Managing Data Pipelines With an LLM Agent

A practical, step-by-step guide to building an LLM-driven orchestrator with safety guardrails, autonomous recovery, and lower operational cost for data pipelines.

May 25, 2026

by Naga Krishna Reddy Muppidi

· 2,781 Views

One Query, Four GPUs: Tracing a Distributed Training Stall Across Nodes

One SQL query across 4 GPU nodes found a straggler in under a second using eBPF fleet fan-out, no central collector needed.

May 25, 2026

by Ingero Team

· 4,004 Views

Product-Led Software Delivery: Intelligent Platforms for DevOps at Scale

Platform engineering helps DevOps teams scale with golden paths, DevEx metrics, automation, and AI guardrails that reduce friction and improve delivery.

May 25, 2026

by Fawaz Ghali, PhD

CORE

· 3,174 Views · 1 Like

What Nobody Tells You About Multimodal Data Pipelines for AI Training

Hard lessons from building multimodal data pipelines at scale — the unglamorous work where most AI projects quietly fall apart.

May 22, 2026

by Yunfei Zhao

· 2,706 Views

Why AI-Generated Code Breaks Your Testing Assumptions

AI generates code faster than tests can cover. Coverage stays green while gaps grow. Treat AI code as untested by default and scale testing to match generation speed.

May 22, 2026

by Oliver Howard

· 3,138 Views

How Retry Storms Crash API-Led Systems: Bounded Reliability Patterns for Distributed Architectures

Unbounded retries and autoscaling can turn minor latency into cascading outages. API reliability must be bounded and load-aware to prevent retry storms.

May 22, 2026

by Manjeera Chanda

· 3,017 Views

11 Agentic Testing Tools to Know in 2026

This article is a review of tools used to autonomously plan, generate, maintain, and execute tests.

May 22, 2026

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 3,248 Views

AWS Managed Database Observability: Monitoring DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift Beyond CloudWatch

Three AWS managed databases, three dashboards, and one cascade you can only trace by hand. This guide fills the gap CloudWatch leaves open.

May 22, 2026

by Damaso Sanoja

· 4,540 Views · 1 Like

Stop Poisoning Your Models: How I Built a CV Dataset Quality Toolkit I Can Reuse Forever

CV data issues keep recurring. I built cv-quality — a toolkit to audit datasets, catch annotation errors, find mislabeled samples, and streamline labeling.

May 22, 2026

by Sai Teja Erukude

· 4,865 Views

Architecting Petabyte-Scale Hyperspectral Pipelines on AWS

Learn how to overcome serverless bottlenecks to process and route petabyte-scale hyperspectral agricultural data on AWS.

May 21, 2026

by Anil Bodepudi

· 3,954 Views

Self-Hosted Inference Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare: How to Use GPUStack

GPUStack is an open-source tool that turns a bunch of scattered GPU machines into one managed cluster for deploying AI models behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

May 21, 2026

by Sandeep Sadarangani

· 4,708 Views · 1 Like

Evaluating SOC Effectiveness Using Detection Coverage and Response Metrics

Coverage plus response speed, not alert counts, ATT&CK-mapped detections, emulation-validated claims, timed from structured incident timestamps.

May 21, 2026

by Krishnaveni Musku

· 2,643 Views

Why SAP S/4HANA Landscape Design Impacts Cloud TCO More Than Compute Costs

SAP cloud TCO is driven more by landscape sprawl than by EC2 costs; optimize environments and use Terraform, S3, and EFS lifecycle policies to reduce costs.

May 20, 2026

by Deepika Paturu

· 3,220 Views

Retesting Best Practices for Agile Teams: A Quick Guide to Bug Fix Verification

Retesting isn’t a checkbox — it’s discipline: reproduce, verify fixes, test edges, run regression, validate in staging, document, automate, and never skip it.

May 19, 2026

by Alok Kumar

· 3,540 Views · 2 Likes

Improving DAG Failure Detection in Airflow Using AI Techniques

A practical approach to enhancing DAG failure detection using AI to improve pipeline reliability and enable proactive intervention in large-scale data environments.

May 19, 2026

by Bruno Bocardo Guzoni

· 2,966 Views · 1 Like

Agentic Testing: Moving Quality From Checkpoint to Control Layer

Learn how agentic testing reshapes QA by adding governance, traceability, and accountability to AI-driven workflows, ensuring speed doesn’t compromise quality.

May 19, 2026

by Kailash Pathak

CORE

· 2,375 Views · 1 Like

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