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Reducing Deployment Time by 60% on GCP: A CI/CD Pipeline Redesign Case Study

We reduced deployment time from 52 minutes to 19 minutes by redesigning our CI/CD pipeline on GCP, eliminating manual steps and infrastructure bottleneck.

April 3, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,166 Views

How Spec-Driven Development Brings Structure to AI-Assisted Engineering and How We Put It to the Test

Spec-Driven Development (SDD) offers a structured approach where clear, machine-readable specifications guides AI to generate code.

April 3, 2026

by Sergey Laptick

· 1,901 Views

AI-Assisted Testing: Real-Life Use Cases vs. Myths

Using AI in quality assurance is now essential to staying competitive, but teams still need to stay grounded and involve people to balance the hype with real results.

April 2, 2026

by Konstantin Klyagin

· 2,649 Views · 1 Like

AWS Migration Tools Compared: DMS vs SMS vs CloudEndure

This article compares AWS DMS, SMS, and CloudEndure, explaining their differences and helping teams select the most suitable AWS migration tool.

April 2, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,360 Views

Securing Error Budgets: How Attackers Exploit Reliability Blind Spots in Cloud Systems

Attackers exploit SRE blind spots. Treat security like reliability: track breach budgets, monitor configs and access, automate detection, and respond systematically.

April 2, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 2,698 Views · 1 Like

The Airlock Pattern: A Mathematician's Secret to Preventing Cascade Failures

The reason your staged rollouts still cascade, and the drain-before-advance pattern that fixes it, is inspired by one of history's greatest mathematicians.

April 2, 2026

by Jithu Paulose

· 1,576 Views

Mastering Azure Kubernetes Service: The Ultimate Guide to Scaling, Security, and Cost Optimization

Learn to optimize AKS with automated scaling, robust security policies, and cost-saving techniques for high-performance cloud clusters.

April 2, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 2,839 Views · 1 Like

From Load Testing to Performance Engineering: Why the Shift Matters

Modern cloud systems need performance engineering, not just load testing. Proactively ensure reliability, scalability, and resilience across the lifecycle.

April 1, 2026

by Roopa Bhavikatti

· 2,163 Views

AI Coding Agents Have Created a New Problem: The Validation Bottleneck

AI coding agents can refactor a microservice in seconds. So why are developers still spending half their day waiting to find out if their code actually works?

April 1, 2026

by Arjun Iyer

· 4,020 Views · 5 Likes

Delta Change Data Feed Deep Dive: Building Incremental Pipelines Without Complexity

Delta CDF in Databricks enables pipelines to process only changed rows with commit metadata, simplifying incremental ETL without full scans.

April 1, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,725 Views · 1 Like

Shift-Left Isn't Enough: Why Security Governance Must Be Baked Into Your CI/CD Pipeline From Day One

Shift-left alone won't protect your pipeline. Learn all about how security governance, policy-as-code, and SBOMs create a CI/CD pipeline built to last.

April 1, 2026

by Anirudh Mantha

· 3,483 Views

Inside Zero Downtime Option (ZDO): When It Works and When It Doesn’t

ZDO can deliver near-zero downtime for S/4HANA upgrades, but only if all prerequisites are perfectly met; otherwise, it quickly reverts to a standard downtime upgrade.

April 1, 2026

by Deepika Paturu

· 2,815 Views

DocumentDB on Kubernetes

Securely connect to a MongoDB DocumentDB replica set in Kubernetes using mongosh with credentials retrieved dynamically from Kubernetes secrets for direct access.

April 1, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 2,909 Views

Reliability Is Security: Why SRE Teams Are Becoming the Frontline of Cloud Defense

In cloud systems, reliability and security are the same problem — security changes can cause outages, and attacks often appear as operational issues.

March 31, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 3,297 Views · 1 Like

Kubernetes Autoscaling: What Breaks Under Real Traffic

Under real production traffic, Kubernetes autoscaling can struggle with delayed metrics, startup latency, and downstream pressure.

March 31, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,404 Views · 2 Likes

Shipping GenAI Into an Existing App: How to Integrate AI Features Without Rewriting Your Stack

Learn a repeatable pattern for safely adding GenAI to existing apps. Choose workflows, define contracts, handle latency, build fallbacks, and roll out with telemetry.

March 31, 2026

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

CORE

· 1,617 Views · 2 Likes

Data-Driven API Testing in Java With REST Assured and TestNG: Part 5

Learn how to perform data-driven API automation testing with REST Assured using Excel Files and TestNG's @DataProvider annotation.

March 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 1,220 Views · 2 Likes

A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Embedded Analytics

Embedded analytics implementations deliver in-context insights within everyday tools—while introducing integration, governance, and performance challenges for developers.

March 30, 2026

by Philip Piletic

CORE

· 1,610 Views

Beyond Static Checks: Designing CI/CD Pipelines That Respond to Live Security Signals

CI/CD pipelines miss runtime risk. Learn how to integrate real-time security signals into deployment decisions for safer, context-aware releases.

March 30, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 1,296 Views

Feature Flag-Based Rollout: A Safer Way to Ship Software

Feature flags let teams release code without exposing it to everyone at once. They make rollouts safer, faster, and easier to control, especially in production.

March 30, 2026

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 2,113 Views · 1 Like

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