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What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker
At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.
July 29, 2026
by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla
· 34,281 Views · 2 Likes
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Why Standard Test Automation Misses the Failures That Matter in AI Agent Systems
Evaluation has real costs (inference spend, latency, storage) — budget for it explicitly, and treat every user-reported regression as a permanent new test case.
July 28, 2026
by Dimple Bajaj
· 2,369 Views · 2 Likes
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From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling
As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.
July 28, 2026
by DZone Staff
· 3,007 Views · 1 Like
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Building Reliable Data Pipelines for Enterprise Analytics Using PySpark
Build reliable PySpark pipelines with techniques for data validation, schema evolution, transformation design, partition management, and operational monitoring at scale.
July 28, 2026
by Harsh Patel
· 1,699 Views
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More Tests, More Confidence? Test Suites Are Investment Portfolios
Learn how to manage test suites as investment portfolios by measuring evidence value, reducing maintenance costs, and pruning liabilities.
July 28, 2026
by Stelios Manioudakis DZone Core CORE
· 2,849 Views · 1 Like
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OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors
A look at the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) that has been created by the CNCF OpenTelemetry project and how it could deliver beyond OTel's needs.
July 27, 2026
by Phil Wilkins
· 1,928 Views
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Designing a Page Object Model + TestNG Hybrid Framework: Patterns That Actually Scale
Basic Page Object Model doesn't scale. Here are the four real-world patterns needed to maintain a 2,400-test Selenium suite.
July 27, 2026
by Rajasekhar sunkara
· 1,292 Views
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From DevOps to AIOps: How Agentic AI Tamed Our Multi-Substrate Chaos
Legacy VMware on-prem, reactive AWS, and a ticket queue that never emptied — we deployed agentic AI across both substrates and changed how the team operates entirely.
July 27, 2026
by Mayank Jain
· 1,639 Views · 1 Like
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Securing Model Context Protocol Servers: 4 Gates From Code to Production
Secure MCP servers against prompt injection, data leaks, and denial-of-wallet with four practical, OWASP-aligned gates from code to production. Runnable code.
July 24, 2026
by Viquar Khan
· 3,762 Views · 2 Likes
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Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 1: The Pipeline
Learn how to engineer production-ready AI agent context with a five-stage pipeline for retrieval, enrichment, verification, compression, and prompt injection.
July 24, 2026
by Ram Ravishankar
· 2,695 Views
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One of Waterfall's Most Resilient Artifacts
Learn about why QA-as-a-phase persists, the costs it creates, and how teams can transition to continuous quality across the software development lifecycle.
July 24, 2026
by Stelios Manioudakis DZone Core CORE
· 3,642 Views · 3 Likes
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The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability
Agentic SRE speeds up incident response, but it also requires clear guardrails, strong observability, and human oversight.
July 23, 2026
by Neel Shah
· 4,167 Views · 1 Like
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Avoid 10 Pitfalls of Overautomation in Software Development
Pitfalls of overautomation include automating a flawed process, relying only on automated security triggers, automating with unclean data, and more.
July 23, 2026
by Zac Amos
· 2,861 Views · 1 Like
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API Testing Frameworks: How to Pick the Right One and Actually Use It Well
Learn how to choose the right API testing framework, including REST Assured, Supertest, pytest, Postman, Karate, and Keploy, for better API test automation.
July 23, 2026
by Himanshu Mandhyan
· 2,779 Views · 1 Like
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How to Build a Solid Test Pipeline in the Era of Agentic AI Development
Learn to build a strong testing pipeline to ensure code quality, as in enterprises today most code is generated by AI agents at a huge volume and scale.
July 22, 2026
by Sai Rakshit Yerram
· 4,644 Views · 2 Likes
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Engineering Complexity: Implied vs. Induced Complexity
Learn to separate unavoidable system complexity from complexity your engineering choices create—and know what to contain, design for, or remove.
July 21, 2026
by Yogeshwar Srikrishnan
· 2,911 Views
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Reducing CI Execution Time Using Impact-Based Test Selection Across Repositories
CI optimization using Git diff and JGit to selectively run impacted Karate tests, reducing regression execution while preserving safe fallback coverage.
July 21, 2026
by Raakesh Rajagopalan
· 3,535 Views
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Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026
Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report. Read it. It's the most comprehensive look at AI in production available now.
July 20, 2026
by AJAY DEVINENI
· 3,399 Views · 1 Like
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Green Unit Tests Are a Comfort Blanket
A green test suite checks only the inputs you imagined. Point Hypothesis at a parser and it finds the garbage you did not, before production does.
July 20, 2026
by Mikhail Golikov
· 1,759 Views · 1 Like
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7 Essential Guardrails for Building AI SRE Agents
AI agents can take over the first minutes of incident response, but only with the right boundaries. Seven guardrails that keep an SRE agent from becoming the outage.
July 20, 2026
by Akhilesh Rao Meesala
· 2,259 Views · 3 Likes
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