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How to Perform Response Verification in REST-Assured Java for API Testing: Part 2

Master REST-Assured response verification in Java with Hamcrest Matchers, JSON assertions, API validations, and real-world examples.

September 11, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,907 Views · 3 Likes

Why Continuous Application Security Testing Is No Longer Optional

Point-in-time vulnerability testing is just a snapshot. In today’s threat environment, continuous application security testing shows real security posture.

September 11, 2026

by Jigar Shah

· 2,525 Views

Replacing JSON With Protobuf in Your Microservice Mesh: A Zero-Downtime Migration Blueprint

JSON hurts at scale. Protobuf cuts payload size by ~72%, reduces CPU overhead, and enforces typed contracts. However, it needs careful schema management.

September 11, 2026

by Bansidhar kadiya

· 3,165 Views · 2 Likes

Improving Repeated Analytics Workloads With Databricks Disk Cache

Databricks disk cache speeds up repeated reads from curated Parquet or Delta tables, but it works best with good table design and partitioning.

September 11, 2026

by Harsh Patel

· 2,328 Views

How to Test GET API Requests With Playwright TypeScript

Learn how to test GET API requests using Playwright with TypeScript, including params, headers, timeouts, and status code validation.

September 10, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,878 Views · 4 Likes

Kubernetes Says Ready. Your LLM Still Isn’t.

Kubernetes can say Ready before an LLM can infer. Measure the gap, then make the readiness check a real inference in production.

September 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,070 Views · 1 Like

Cutting Telemetry Volume Is Not the Same as Cutting Noise

A volume target removes bytes, not noise. Once easy cuts run out, you pay in answers you won't have. Govern the questions your team asks, not bytes per day.

September 8, 2026

by Severin Neumann

· 2,718 Views · 2 Likes

What Actually Makes AI Infrastructure Agents More Reliable (It's Not More Agents)

Single AI agents fail during incidents. Four specialized agents — supervisor, telemetry, reasoning, action — handle observability more reliably.

September 8, 2026

by Kinjal Vaishnav

· 2,136 Views · 1 Like

DORA Metrics Assume Your CI Pipeline Is Telling the Truth. What If It Is Not?

When mock files drift from current service behavior, DORA metrics underreport failures. Deployment rework rate is the metric that shows what change failure rate missed.

September 7, 2026

by Sancharini Panda

· 1,533 Views · 1 Like

Building Agentic RAG, Step by Step: From Static Retrieval to Reasoning Pipelines

Build an agentic RAG system that plans retrieval, grades results, reformulates queries, and self-checks answers to improve grounding.

September 4, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,921 Views · 1 Like

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Spring Boot pods reload the same classes on every start. A CDS training run inside your Dockerfile caches that work once and cuts startup time roughly in half.

September 3, 2026

by Garima Agarwal

· 3,451 Views · 3 Likes

How I Run Two AI Coding Agents on One Codebase

Isolated worktrees, explicit ownership boundaries, and automated validation enable multiple AI coding agents to develop safely in parallel.

September 3, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 3,009 Views · 2 Likes

Making Running Optional: Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes With Agent Substrate

Learn how an early-stage open-source project separates workload lifecycle from compute allocation for bursty, stateful, and massively concurrent AI workloads.

September 3, 2026

by Mayowa Fajobi

· 2,702 Views

Shift-Left Without Losing the Audit Trail: Test Automation for Regulated Surgical Software

Stop maintaining audit trails by hand. Here's how regulated software teams can make traceability a byproduct of automation, not a separate deliverable.

September 2, 2026

by Dimple Bajaj

· 2,115 Views

Ampere PMU Profiler: A Guide to Microarchitecture Profiling

APP uses PMU metrics to pinpoint CPU stalls, cache misses, and other microarchitectural bottlenecks on Ampere processors

September 1, 2026

by Bhakti Hinduja

· 2,880 Views · 2 Likes

Designing Replay-Safe CDC Pipelines With Kafka, Debezium, and Recovery Contracts

How to design CDC pipelines with Kafka, Debezium, idempotent writes, deterministic projections, replay workflows, reconciliation checks, and recovery evidence.

September 1, 2026

by Ishan Shah

· 3,125 Views · 1 Like

Building a Zero-Cost Daily Job Alert Pipeline on GitHub Actions

Run a daily cron job on GitHub Actions for free by committing a JSON file back to the repo as your database, plus the gotchas from 139 production runs.

September 1, 2026

by Mandar Chaudhari

· 4,158 Views · 1 Like

Stop Hardcoding Database Checks: Building a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework

Decouple validation from code. Learn how to build a dynamic, metadata-driven data quality framework using Databricks, Snowflake, and Python.

September 1, 2026

by Kshitish Nath

· 2,326 Views

Why Ping-Based Uptime Checks Are Failing Modern SaaS Architectures

Legacy server ping checks are obsolete. Synthetic monitoring solves this by simulating real user journeys to validate that actual business workflows function correctly.

August 31, 2026

by Arun Kulkarni

· 1,863 Views

When "Roughly Right" Looks Like a Liability: Engineering Financial-Grade Data Pipelines

Learn how to build financial-grade pipelines using idempotent merges, hard-blocking dbt tests, and automated freshness alerts.

August 31, 2026

by Kiran Kumar Javangula

· 1,666 Views

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