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Build a GitHub Slack Bot With AWS Bedrock and MCP, Part 1

Building a Slack bot with traditional APIs led to 400 lines of code. Using MCP and AWS Bedrock reduced complexity, enabling scalable, tool-driven automation.

June 3, 2026

by Sangharsh Agarwal

· 3,259 Views · 2 Likes

Using LLMs to Automate Data Cleaning and Transformation Pipelines

Data cleaning is brittle and time-consuming; LLMs introduce a semantic layer that makes workflows more resilient and easier to maintain.

June 3, 2026

by David Taiwo Balogun

· 3,414 Views · 2 Likes

When Snowflake Lies to You: Understanding False Failures in dbt Pipelines

Your pipeline failed. Your code is fine. This article will walk you through why both things can be true at the same time.

June 2, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 2,396 Views · 1 Like

Stop Debugging Glue Jobs Manually: Building an Agentic Observability Layer for Data Pipelines

Glue failures scatter evidence across logs, metadata, and table state. A triage layer pulls it together and flags whether a rerun is safe.

June 2, 2026

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 2,568 Views · 1 Like

When One MVP Is Really Four Systems: A Better Way to Plan Multi-Role Apps

Many MVPs get too big because teams treat several user-facing systems and vendor-dependent workflows as one app instead of planning one complete path first.

June 2, 2026

by Kajol Shah

· 2,088 Views · 1 Like

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

· 1,715 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

· 1,670 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

· 3,031 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

· 3,159 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

· 4,512 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

· 4,554 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

· 2,840 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

· 4,734 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

· 2,735 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

· 3,072 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 4,153 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

· 4,609 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 4,546 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

· 3,505 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 4,710 Views

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