Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Resources

From Load Testing to Performance Engineering: Why the Shift Matters

Modern cloud systems need performance engineering, not just load testing. Proactively ensure reliability, scalability, and resilience across the lifecycle.

April 1, 2026

by Roopa Bhavikatti

· 2,411 Views

AI Coding Agents Have Created a New Problem: The Validation Bottleneck

AI coding agents can refactor a microservice in seconds. So why are developers still spending half their day waiting to find out if their code actually works?

April 1, 2026

by Arjun Iyer

· 4,310 Views · 5 Likes

Delta Change Data Feed Deep Dive: Building Incremental Pipelines Without Complexity

Delta CDF in Databricks enables pipelines to process only changed rows with commit metadata, simplifying incremental ETL without full scans.

April 1, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 3,099 Views · 1 Like

Shift-Left Isn't Enough: Why Security Governance Must Be Baked Into Your CI/CD Pipeline From Day One

Shift-left alone won't protect your pipeline. Learn all about how security governance, policy-as-code, and SBOMs create a CI/CD pipeline built to last.

April 1, 2026

by Anirudh Mantha

· 3,770 Views

Inside Zero Downtime Option (ZDO): When It Works and When It Doesn’t

ZDO can deliver near-zero downtime for S/4HANA upgrades, but only if all prerequisites are perfectly met; otherwise, it quickly reverts to a standard downtime upgrade.

April 1, 2026

by Deepika Paturu

· 3,209 Views

DocumentDB on Kubernetes

Securely connect to a MongoDB DocumentDB replica set in Kubernetes using mongosh with credentials retrieved dynamically from Kubernetes secrets for direct access.

April 1, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 3,086 Views

Reliability Is Security: Why SRE Teams Are Becoming the Frontline of Cloud Defense

In cloud systems, reliability and security are the same problem — security changes can cause outages, and attacks often appear as operational issues.

March 31, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 3,608 Views · 1 Like

Kubernetes Autoscaling: What Breaks Under Real Traffic

Under real production traffic, Kubernetes autoscaling can struggle with delayed metrics, startup latency, and downstream pressure.

March 31, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,754 Views · 2 Likes

Shipping GenAI Into an Existing App: How to Integrate AI Features Without Rewriting Your Stack

Learn a repeatable pattern for safely adding GenAI to existing apps. Choose workflows, define contracts, handle latency, build fallbacks, and roll out with telemetry.

March 31, 2026

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

CORE

· 1,873 Views · 2 Likes

Data-Driven API Testing in Java With REST Assured and TestNG: Part 5

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with REST Assured using Excel Files and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

March 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,353 Views · 2 Likes

A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Embedded Analytics

Embedded analytics implementations deliver in-context insights within everyday tools—while introducing integration, governance, and performance challenges for developers.

March 30, 2026

by Philip Piletic

CORE

· 2,179 Views

Beyond Static Checks: Designing CI/CD Pipelines That Respond to Live Security Signals

CI/CD pipelines miss runtime risk. Learn how to integrate real-time security signals into deployment decisions for safer, context-aware releases.

March 30, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 1,481 Views

Feature Flag-Based Rollout: A Safer Way to Ship Software

Feature flags let teams release code without exposing it to everyone at once. They make rollouts safer, faster, and easier to control, especially in production.

March 30, 2026

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 2,314 Views · 1 Like

Deploying Java applications on Arm64 with Kubernetes

Tuning Java on Kubernetes (Arm64): align CPU/memory limits with JVM, use container-aware settings, optimize placement, and leverage OS tuning for better performance.

March 30, 2026

by Dave Neary

· 2,031 Views · 1 Like

Azure Cosmos DB Playground: Learn and Experiment With Queries in Your Browser

Interactive, browser-based Azure Cosmos DB playground to learn, prototype, and test SQL queries instantly — no setup, installation, or cloud costs required.

March 30, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 1,115 Views

The Hidden Cost of Legacy Infrastructure in Asset-Heavy Game Development

Today’s software and game dev bottleneck is legacy pipelines. Modern VCS gives studios the edge to scale and thrive in a high-velocity, agent-driven era.

March 27, 2026

by Sasha Medvedovsky

· 2,690 Views

The Hidden Cost of Flaky Tests in Test Automation

Flaky tests erode developer trust, slow delivery, and waste engineering time. Learn why flakiness happens and how teams restore reliability in test automation.

March 27, 2026

by Sancharini Panda

· 2,717 Views