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Optimizing Databricks Spark Pipelines Using Declarative Patterns

This article explains why hand-tuning Spark is becoming the slow path — and what the declarative alternatives actually look like in production.

June 1, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 1,354 Views · 1 Like

Offline-First Patch Management for 10,000 Edge Nodes: A Practical Architecture That Scales

How we stopped fighting the network and started treating bandwidth as a scarce resource — and what happened to our patch success rate when we did.

June 1, 2026

by srinivas thotakura

· 1,543 Views

Implementing Observability in Distributed Systems Using OpenTelemetry

Instrument a Python Flask service with OpenTelemetry auto trace requests, export metrics to Prometheus, and inject trace IDs into logs for observability in one setup.

May 29, 2026

by Mugunth Chandran

· 2,851 Views · 1 Like

Event-Driven Pipelines With Apache Pulsar and Go

Build scalable, real-time pipelines with Apache Pulsar and Go using event-driven producers and consumers that communicate via Pulsar topics.

May 29, 2026

by Shivi Kashyap

· 2,963 Views

Zero-Downtime Deployments for Java Apps on Kubernetes

Achieve zero-downtime deployments for Java applications on Kubernetes using rolling updates, readiness/liveness probes, and graceful shutdown strategies.

May 29, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 4,122 Views

Pragmatica Aether: Let Java Be Java

A modern, distributed, fault-tolerant runtime environment for the language that was intentionally designed for managed environments.

May 29, 2026

by Sergiy Yevtushenko

· 4,351 Views · 1 Like

Contract-First Integration: Building Scalable Systems With Flyway, OpenAPI, and Kafka

Define API, event, and DB contracts upfront to enable parallel development, catch breaking changes in CI, and maintain consistent, reliable integrations.

May 29, 2026

by Wallace Espindola

· 2,644 Views

Building a Zero-Cost Approval Workflow With AWS Lambda Durable Functions

Learn how to build an ETL pipeline with human-in-the-loop approval that costs nothing while waiting — and see real cost data from processing 1,000 documents.

May 28, 2026

by Harpreet Siddhu

· 4,490 Views · 1 Like

Your AI Agent Tests Are Passing, But Your Agent Is Still Broken

How to test AI agents that call tools — five patterns using traces and behavior contracts to catch bugs your current tests miss.

May 28, 2026

by Biresh Patel

· 2,637 Views

Building a DevOps-Ready Internal Developer Platform: A Hands-On Guide to Golden Paths, Self-Service, and Automated Delivery Pipelines

Learn how to build an internal developer platform with golden paths, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and governance built into workflows.

May 28, 2026

by Mirco Hering

CORE

· 2,724 Views · 1 Like

Stateless JWT Auth Microservice Architecture With Spring Boot 3 and Redis Sentinel

Design a stateless JWT auth service with Spring Boot 3, Redis caching, and Sentinel for high availability, faster token validation, and reduced DB load.

May 27, 2026

by Erkin Karanlık

· 3,734 Views · 1 Like

Feature Flag Debt: Performance Impact in Enterprise Applications

Feature flags help teams move fast, but when they’re not cleaned up, they quietly add extra code, slow down performance, and make applications harder to maintain.

May 27, 2026

by Poornakumar Rasiraju

· 4,172 Views · 1 Like

Docker Hardened Images Are Free Now — Here's What You Still Need to Build

Docker Hardened Images solve the CVE problem. But CVEs aren't why containers fail in production — governance gaps are. Here's the trust architecture that closes them.

May 27, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 4,294 Views

DevOps and Platform Engineering Readiness Checklist: Everything Needed for a Scalable, Secure, High-Velocity Delivery Platform

A practical checklist for platform engineering teams to improve DevOps, golden paths, reliability, governance, and developer experience at scale.

May 27, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 2,978 Views · 1 Like

Setting Up a Data Catalog With Azure Purview and Collibra: What Three Attempts Taught Me

Setting up a data catalog isn’t just a tool problem. My work with Azure Purview and Collibra showed success depends on governance, metadata, and adoption.

May 27, 2026

by Kuladeep Sandra

· 4,248 Views

Beyond Partitioning and Z-Order: A Deep Dive into Liquid Clustering for Unity Catalog Managed Tables

Liquid Clustering replaces rigid partitioning and Z-Order with adaptive clustering in Unity Catalog, improving performance with less maintenance.

May 26, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,700 Views · 1 Like

Architecting an Embedded Efficiency Layer: A Platform Deep Dive into Day-Two Operational Tuning

Learn how platform teams can embed continuous optimization into internal developer platforms using GitOps, HITL workflows, and full-stack tuning.

May 26, 2026

by Graziano Casto

CORE

· 2,200 Views · 1 Like

When Perfect Data Breaks: The Journey from Data Quality to Data Observability

Data quality checks often miss silent failures. Use data observability to monitor data in motion and catch issues traditional tools miss.

May 25, 2026

by Divyakumar Savla

· 1,786 Views

Build Self-Managing Data Pipelines With an LLM Agent

A practical, step-by-step guide to building an LLM-driven orchestrator with safety guardrails, autonomous recovery, and lower operational cost for data pipelines.

May 25, 2026

by Naga Krishna Reddy Muppidi

· 2,434 Views

One Query, Four GPUs: Tracing a Distributed Training Stall Across Nodes

One SQL query across 4 GPU nodes found a straggler in under a second using eBPF fleet fan-out, no central collector needed.

May 25, 2026

by Ingero Team

· 3,644 Views

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