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In this article, I share the key stages of building a secure startup — from IDPs and network planning to SIEM, SOAR, and post-live security best practices.

September 26, 2025

by Hleb Skuratau

· 3,608 Views · 3 Likes

Boosting Developer Productivity in Kubernetes-Driven Workflows: A Practical Checklist

Teams can ultimately boost Kubernetes productivity with the use of better tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering practices.

September 25, 2025

by Louis-Guillaume Morand

· 3,366 Views · 2 Likes

AWS Glue Crawlers: Common Pitfalls, Schema Challenges, and Best Practices

Learn key challenges and best practices for using AWS Glue crawlers, from handling CSV schema issues to schema evolution, partitions, and ETL jobs.

September 25, 2025

by Saradha Nagarajan

· 4,149 Views

Is Anyone There? Listening to Your Users Through Conversational AI Observability

Your AI chatbot is failing in ways traditional analytics can't see. This leaves you, the Product Manager, guessing what to fix based on vague user complaints.

September 25, 2025

by Harikrishnan Ramadass

· 1,871 Views

Lessons Learned From Building Production-Scale Data Conversion Pipelines

Converting large-scale enterprise data between systems is less about perfection than about making the right tradeoffs and engineering for scale and flexibility.

September 25, 2025

by Charles Wong

· 1,473 Views

Death by a Thousand YAMLs: Surviving Kubernetes Tool Sprawl

Kubernetes growth brings cluster and tool sprawl, driving complexity, cost, and security risks. Learn about emerging solutions like platform engineering and AI.

September 24, 2025

by Yitaek Hwang

CORE

· 4,455 Views · 1 Like

Resilient Data Pipelines in GCP: Handling Failures and Latency in Distributed Systems

Learn resilience strategies for Google Cloud data pipelines. Balance latency, reliability, and recovery with Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and SRE practices.

September 24, 2025

by Balakrishna Aitha

· 2,064 Views · 2 Likes

Shipping Responsible AI Without Slowing Down

Add robustness, monitoring, alignment, and systemic safety into the normal delivery pipeline using plain-language objectives and policy-as-code SLOs.

September 24, 2025

by Sarvenaz Ranjbar

· 1,969 Views · 4 Likes

Top 7 Mistakes When Testing JavaFX Applications

Testing JavaFX programs may seem non-trivial at first. This article describes the most common mistakes when testing desktop apps, their causes, and solutions.

September 24, 2025

by Catherine Edelveis

· 4,668 Views · 1 Like

Running AI/ML on Kubernetes: From Prototype to Production — Use MLflow, KServe, and vLLM on Kubernetes to Ship Models With Confidence

Run scalable, reliable AI/ML inference on Kubernetes with MLflow, KServe, and AutoML, and explore deployment, orchestration, and performance at scale.

September 23, 2025

by Boris Zaikin

CORE

· 8,358 Views · 3 Likes

AI Readiness: Why Cloud Infrastructure Will Decide Who Wins the Next Wave

Most cloud teams aren’t AI ready: Only 51% of infra is automated, and there are major governance gaps and rising costs. Infra maturity (not GPUs) will decide who thrives.

September 23, 2025

by Aharon Twizer

· 2,890 Views · 1 Like

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Output Plugins for Developers (Part 7)

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers handy tips and tricks for speeding up the inner development loop using output plugins in telemetry pipelines.

September 23, 2025

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 1,650 Views · 4 Likes

Testing Automation Antipatterns: When Good Practices Become Your Worst Enemy

This article provides a look at common test automation antipatterns, why they seem useful at first, and how they create long-term problems if not addressed.

September 23, 2025

by Francisco Moreno

CORE

· 2,016 Views · 1 Like

Scaling ML Experiments: The High-Throughput Playbook

Learn why A/B testing is vital for product decisions and how overlapping experiments boost speed, reduce bias, and scale learning across teams.

September 23, 2025

by Arun Thomas

· 1,058 Views · 1 Like

AI Infrastructure for Agents and LLMs: Options, Tools, and Optimization

This article explores the diverse infrastructure options and tools that are available for deploying and optimizing AI agents and large language models (LLMs).

September 22, 2025

by Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS

CORE

· 5,088 Views · 7 Likes

How to Build Secure Knowledge Base Integrations for AI Agents

Learn how to build secure AI knowledge base integrations that protect data, enforce permissions, and power trusted enterprise agents.

September 22, 2025

by Gil Feig

· 3,509 Views · 2 Likes

Integrating AI Into Test Automation Frameworks With the ChatGPT API

Learn how integrating AI can generate realistic data for an automation framework, detect log anomalies, and enhance the reliability of CI/CD runs.

September 22, 2025

by Serhii Romanov

· 4,362 Views · 7 Likes

Stop Reactive Network Troubleshooting: Monitor These 5 Metrics to Prevent Downtime

The difference between reactive and proactive monitoring comes down to tracking the right network metrics and catching issues before they impact users.

September 22, 2025

by Sascha Neumeier

· 3,078 Views · 2 Likes

Azure IOT Cloud-to-Device Communication Methods

Learning and choosing the correct cloud-to-device communication method to send a message to the device using the Azure IoT Hub to build an effective IoT system.

September 22, 2025

by Anup Rao

· 3,057 Views

Think in Graphs, Not Just Chains: JGraphlet for TaskPipelines

JGraphlet is a tiny, zero-dependency Java library for building task pipelines. It uses a graph model where you define tasks as nodes and connect them.

September 22, 2025

by Shaaf Syed

· 1,716 Views · 1 Like

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