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Designing a Reliable Data Synchronization Layer: Idempotency, Ownership, and Observability

Four design decisions for a sync layer you can trust: single ownership, idempotent writes, cheap change detection, observability.

August 4, 2026

by Mike Beentjes

· 4,222 Views · 5 Likes

Performance Testing With JMeter Beyond the Basics: Distributed Load, Realistic Profiles, and Identifying Security Bottlenecks

Learn how to build realistic JMeter load tests with production traffic patterns, distributed testing, session modeling, and security performance analysis.

August 4, 2026

by Srivenkata Gantikota

· 2,665 Views · 1 Like

Understanding Agentic SDLC: The Future of Software Engineering

This article walks you through the fundamentals of agentic SDLC, its core components, and how it works in modern software engineering.

August 4, 2026

by Pavan Belagatti

CORE

· 2,934 Views · 2 Likes

Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 3: The Topology

Learn how to design production-ready agentic AI systems with human-in-the-loop workflows, approval gates, loop controls, and safe termination strategies.

August 4, 2026

by Ram Ravishankar

· 2,166 Views

No Observability Tool Is the “Best”

There's no single "best" monitoring tool — like cars or pizza, "best" depends on your specific needs, budget, and skills.

August 3, 2026

by Leon Adato

· 1,587 Views · 1 Like

Why AI Testing Needs Confidence Scores, Not Just Pass/Fail Results

AI testing needs more than pass/fail results. Confidence scores reveal uncertainty, improve reliability, and enable trustworthy enterprise AI.

August 3, 2026

by Rajeshkumar Rajaseakaran Nair

· 1,766 Views · 3 Likes

Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging an AWS SigV4 Request for a GCP access token to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

August 3, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,288 Views · 2 Likes

Containerizing and Testing a Python Backtesting System With Docker and GitHub Actions

Learn how to containerize a Python backtesting system with Docker, automate testing with GitHub Actions, and improve reproducibility through versioned builds.

July 31, 2026

by Gillian Lu

· 2,157 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,598 Views · 4 Likes

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 2,580 Views · 2 Likes

SRE Best Practices for Production Alerting

Learn how to reduce alert noise, improve production monitoring, and create more effective alerts for large-scale distributed systems.

July 30, 2026

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 2,131 Views · 1 Like

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,107 Views · 1 Like

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,604 Views · 3 Likes

What Is Agentic Test Creation and How Is It Different from AI Test Generation?

Every testing tool now advertises AI test generation. But many of them are just ChatGPT with a QA skin. Here’s how to tell the difference.

July 30, 2026

by John Vester

CORE

· 2,210 Views

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 8,500 Views · 1 Like

This One Spring Data JPA Pattern Cleaned Up to 3 Years of Repository Debt

Stop adding repository methods every time a filter changes. JPA Specifications let you compose queries cleanly at runtime.

July 29, 2026

by Ramesh Bellamkonda

· 2,952 Views · 1 Like

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

A practical framework for graduated autonomy in self-healing infrastructure, covering three remediation tiers and policy-driven blast-radius controls for cloud SRE teams.

July 29, 2026

by Shraddhaben Gajjar

· 3,159 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 34,631 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 2,595 Views · 3 Likes

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

· 11,947 Views · 1 Like

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