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Agentic Test Creation: From Plain-Language Requirements to End-to-End Test Cases

Days can be lost between “requirement ready” and “tests written,” where agentic pipelines can replace manual transcription and close the gap.

October 2, 2026

by John Vester

CORE

· 2,285 Views · 3 Likes

AI on Top of a Dysfunctional System

Explore 10 Product Backlog anti-patterns that AI can make worse by masking dysfunction, missing evidence, and flawed decision-making.

October 2, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 1,387 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond Clicking Buttons: Build a Browser Agent That Verifies Its Results With Playwright MCP

A browser agent uses Playwright MCP to verify outcomes, not just click. Explicit checks and evidence distinguish success from failure or uncertainty.

October 2, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 1,063 Views · 3 Likes

Part 3: End-to-End Tracing and Observability Across Goose, agentgateway, and Quarkus

Add W3C Trace Context propagation across Goose, agentgateway, and Quarkus to turn opaque agentic tool loops into fully observable distributed traces in Jaeger.

October 2, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 1,214 Views · 2 Likes

Docker Sandboxes Beyond the Laptop: Running AI Agents in the Cloud

In this article, we will discuss how to run your coding agents in the cloud using sbx. Cloud compute is usage-billed, so keep track of your sandboxes accordingly.

October 2, 2026

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

CORE

· 1,520 Views · 1 Like

The Telemetry Tax: Architecting Zero-Allocation Event Observability at 15B+ Daily Event Scale

Processing telemetry at hyper-scale creates a Telemetry tax. Here is an architectural blueprint for a zero-Allocation telemetry pipeline.

September 30, 2026

by Brindal Patel

· 1,418 Views · 2 Likes

The Silent Container Death: A TCP Dial That Never Times Out

A pod goes into CrashLoopBackOff. You pull the logs expecting a stack trace, a panic, an error string — and then nothing. No error. No exit message. Magic.

September 30, 2026

by Alexander Fo

· 2,113 Views · 1 Like

AWS 7R Migration Strategies: A Decision Framework for Engineering Teams

Learn how to classify workloads, choose the right migration path, and avoid the traps that turn 6-week projects into 6-month ones.

September 30, 2026

by Jerzy Kopaczewski

· 1,144 Views · 2 Likes

Why Databricks and Snowflake Speak the Kafka Protocol: Ingestion vs Architecture

Databricks and Snowflake speak the Kafka protocol, but Kafka for lakehouse ingestion is not Kafka as an event-driven architecture.

September 30, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 3,393 Views · 1 Like

Git Blame Isn’t Enough: Building Verifiable Provenance for AI-Generated Code

AI-generated code needs verifiable provenance linking intent, context, models, edits, approvals, commits, and artifacts across the software lifecycle.

September 30, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 1,556 Views · 3 Likes

Beyond HTTP Handoffs: Build Durable Agent-to-Agent Services With Temporal Nexus

Temporal Nexus enables durable agent-to-agent handoffs, managing long-running operations, retries, timeouts, and cancellation across service boundaries.

September 30, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 1,078 Views · 4 Likes

Predict, Repeat, Improve: Deterministic Simulation Testing Explained

Explore deterministic simulation testing — how predictable, repeatable outcomes boost QA, reliability, and confidence for engineers and architects.

September 29, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 1,738 Views · 3 Likes

A Deep Dive into the Microsoft Foundry Document Intelligence SDK: From PDF to Structured Data

A hands-on guide to Microsoft Foundry Document Intelligence SDK for extracting text, structured fields, and document data from PDFs for RAG and AI pipelines.

September 29, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 6,509 Views · 3 Likes

How to Test POST API Requests With Playwright TypeScript

Learn how to test POST API requests in Playwright with TypeScript using static JSON objects and arrays, JSON.stringify(), JSON files, and the Faker library.

September 29, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 971 Views · 1 Like

Mistaking Code Production for Engineering Progress: AI Productivity Myths Part 1

In this article, you will learn why lines of code generated are almost meaningless as a measure of AI-assisted development.

September 29, 2026

by Gaurav Gaur

CORE

· 1,342 Views · 2 Likes

The Request Timed Out, But the Payment Succeeded: Building Retry-Safe Mobile APIs

Build retry-safe mobile APIs that prevent duplicate transactions during network failures, timeouts, and automatic retries.

September 28, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 944 Views · 4 Likes

Software Quality Habits and AI

Software quality depends on daily habits. Learn how small habits compound and how AI can strengthen quality while weakening engineering judgment.

September 25, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 2,633 Views · 3 Likes

Building a Practical Cloud-Native Golden Path: A Guide to Kubernetes-Based Service Delivery, Self-Service, and Developer-Friendly Defaults

Golden paths standardize software delivery with self-service workflows, deployment guardrails, and observability while preserving team autonomy.

September 25, 2026

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

CORE

· 1,789 Views · 1 Like

Testing Business Programs Without Constructing Domain Objects

How can you test business rules and business-level orchestration without domain objects? Why is making domain objects for the business rules opaque a good restriction?

September 25, 2026

by Peter Verhas

CORE

· 965 Views · 1 Like

How to Verify Response Data in API Testing With Playwright TypeScript

Learn how to verify the response data, including structure checks, basic validations, and more, in API Testing with Playwright TypeScript

September 25, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,723 Views · 1 Like

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