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Security Is a Platform Property, Not a Pipeline Step

Security works best when it is built into the platform: Terraform guardrails, CI/CD checks, and golden path templates make secure delivery the default.

July 20, 2026

by Naveen Kalapala

· 2,413 Views

When Data Quality Checks Pass but the Data Is Still Stale

A pipeline can pass every check and still serve stale data. Measure freshness (event time to publish time), not just validity.

July 20, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 1,916 Views

Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That

Agent systems discard the reasoning behind decisions. Capture workflow IDs, semantic logs, and prompt context before production deployment.

July 17, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 35,806 Views · 2 Likes

Your Automation Pipeline Is Not a Source of Truth

Pipelines that apply infrastructure changes without a declared source of intent create invisible drift. The pipeline should be the executor, not the authority.

July 17, 2026

by Jeleel Muibi

· 2,144 Views · 1 Like

Most Automation Failures Aren’t Bugs — They’re Boundary Problems

Most failures aren’t bugs — they’re broken assumptions between systems. Focus on boundaries, not just code, to debug faster.

July 16, 2026

by Gayathri Bolineni

· 2,856 Views · 4 Likes

AI Agent Harness Lock-In: 5 Portability Tests to Run Before You Commit

Five harness portability tests — memory, tools, skills, orchestration, and governance — that reveal what you trade when committing to an AI agent platform.

July 16, 2026

by Deneesh Narayanasamy

· 2,728 Views

Does 100% Code Coverage Mean Tested?

Learn why 100% code coverage doesn't guarantee software quality, and how behavior coverage and mutation testing provide more meaningful testing insights.

July 15, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 3,725 Views · 1 Like

Do We Test Just to Find Bugs?

Framing testing as just a bug-finding activity results in a number of consequences that this article discusses.

July 14, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 4,118 Views · 2 Likes

Scaling Teams, Scaling Systems: Unlocking Developer Productivity With Platform Engineering

Platform engineering scales teams and systems, streamlines workflows, and reduces friction—driving faster delivery, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

July 14, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 2,918 Views · 1 Like

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

Learn eight AWS Glue ETL design principles for building production PySpark pipelines that are maintainable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.

July 14, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,460 Views · 2 Likes

Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry

This article walks through building a production-ready multi-agent AI system using Microsoft's AI stack, focusing on the operational capabilities.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 2,015 Views

Performance Testing RAG Applications: Complete Engineering Guide

In this blog post, we will see how to perform a performance test on a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application properly, covering both speed and correctness.

July 13, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,119 Views · 1 Like

Building Reliable Async Processing Pipelines Using Temporal

Temporal replaces complex retry, recovery, and queue-handling logic with durable workflows that automatically recover from failures and resume execution reliably.

July 13, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 2,105 Views · 2 Likes

Service Industry Evolution: Beyond 99.9% Uptime With Evolving Technology

Learn how AI, observability, predictive maintenance, and resilience are helping service organizations move beyond reactive operations and improve uptime.

July 10, 2026

by Abhishek Sharma

· 3,487 Views · 3 Likes

Candidate Generation Decides Your Pipeline's Cost, Not the LLM

LLM-powered document intelligence pipelines rarely blow their budgets on summarization. The failure is one layer up: a missing triage and candidate generation layer.

July 9, 2026

by Deepak Gupta

· 2,108 Views · 1 Like

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,289 Views

When Build-Time Infrastructure Assumptions Meet Real Hardware

As hardware evolves faster than infrastructure, build-time assumptions become liabilities and runtime adaptability becomes essential.

July 9, 2026

by Arun Anbumani

· 1,812 Views

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,930 Views

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

Learn RabbitMQ basics with Spring Boot, including exchanges, queues, routing keys, consumers, and Docker Compose in a hands-on example.

July 8, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,269 Views

Reading Playwright Traces When Browser Automation Fails

When browser automation fails, the thrown error is usually three steps removed from the actual cause. Treat the Playwright trace as the source of truth.

July 8, 2026

by Cornelius Renken

· 1,445 Views

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