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AI Agent Harness Lock-In: 5 Portability Tests to Run Before You Commit

Five harness portability tests — memory, tools, skills, orchestration, and governance — that reveal what you trade when committing to an AI agent platform.

July 16, 2026

by Deneesh Narayanasamy

· 2,245 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

· 3,339 Views · 1 Like

Do We Test Just to Find Bugs?

Framing testing as just a bug-finding activity results in a number of consequences that this article discusses.

July 14, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 3,798 Views · 2 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

· 2,599 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

· 3,187 Views · 2 Likes

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 Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,848 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

· 2,798 Views · 1 Like

Building Reliable Async Processing Pipelines Using Temporal

Temporal replaces complex retry, recovery, and queue-handling logic with durable workflows that automatically recover from failures and resume execution reliably.

July 13, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

· 1,967 Views · 1 Like

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

· 3,253 Views · 3 Likes

Candidate Generation Decides Your Pipeline's Cost, Not the LLM

LLM-powered document intelligence pipelines rarely blow their budgets on summarization. The failure is one layer up: a missing triage and candidate generation layer.

July 9, 2026

by Deepak Gupta

· 1,900 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

· 2,002 Views

When Build-Time Infrastructure Assumptions Meet Real Hardware

As hardware evolves faster than infrastructure, build-time assumptions become liabilities and runtime adaptability becomes essential.

July 9, 2026

by Arun Anbumani

· 1,703 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 Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,749 Views

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

Learn RabbitMQ basics with Spring Boot, including exchanges, queues, routing keys, consumers, and Docker Compose in a hands-on example.

July 8, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,005 Views

Reading Playwright Traces When Browser Automation Fails

When browser automation fails, the thrown error is usually three steps removed from the actual cause. Treat the Playwright trace as the source of truth.

July 8, 2026

by Cornelius Renken

· 1,330 Views

Building Production-Grade Delta Lake Pipelines With Apache Spark on Databricks

This article walks through building a modern Databricks pipeline using the Medallion Architecture, explains Delta Lake's transaction log and ACID guarantees.

July 8, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,432 Views · 1 Like

AI Won't Keep You from Hitting the Scalability Wall

AI coding tools can dramatically speed up integration builds — but speed isn't the bottleneck. The real issue is the long-term ownership cost.

July 8, 2026

by Bru Woodring

· 1,607 Views

R&D Engineering: Balancing Prototyping, Infrastructure, and Risk

R&D succeeds when teams build just enough infrastructure to validate the highest-risk technical assumptions without over-engineering or over-researching the problem.

July 7, 2026

by Chris Wardman

· 1,471 Views · 1 Like

How We Know What We Know

Testing produces evidence, evidence becomes feedback, and feedback helps us make decisions — even as AI reshapes how code is written and tested.

July 7, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 3,721 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build a Production-Ready RAG Pipeline With Vector DBs

RAG prototypes are easy. Production RAG is not. This covers vector DB tradeoffs, chunking patterns, re-ranking, and evaluation setups that hold up at scale.

July 6, 2026

by Mark Saxon

· 3,119 Views · 1 Like

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