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Designing Replay-Safe CDC Pipelines With Kafka, Debezium, and Recovery Contracts

How to design CDC pipelines with Kafka, Debezium, idempotent writes, deterministic projections, replay workflows, reconciliation checks, and recovery evidence.

September 1, 2026

by Ishan Shah

· 3,215 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Zero-Cost Daily Job Alert Pipeline on GitHub Actions

Run a daily cron job on GitHub Actions for free by committing a JSON file back to the repo as your database, plus the gotchas from 139 production runs.

September 1, 2026

by Mandar Chaudhari

· 4,255 Views · 2 Likes

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database

Learn how I built an open-source SQL query analyzer that generates dialect-correct index recommendations across multiple dialects.

August 31, 2026

by Sudhakararao Sajja

· 2,085 Views · 1 Like

Inside terraform-provider-archive: A Memory Pattern From 2016 That Scales With Your Lambdas

archive_file buffers whole files in memory. Enough lambdas and terraform apply OOM-kills your CI runner. The fix is ten lines of Go.

August 31, 2026

by Oleg Mamiev

· 1,908 Views · 2 Likes

Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Six risk-driven patterns from a Fortune 50 insurer's first WebSphere-to-AWS migration — and why decoupling decided the outcome.

August 28, 2026

by Alka Nimje

· 2,755 Views · 4 Likes

Member Spotlight: Shamsher Khan

We caught up with Shamser to talk about golden prompts, AI-assisted engineering, and how teams can build more consistent and governed AI workflows.

August 28, 2026

by Dominique Pugh

· 3,084 Views · 3 Likes

Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin

A Java UDF that runs sentiment analysis directly inside the Neo4j database engine — no external APIs, no application-layer round-trips, callable from any Cypher query.

August 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,364 Views · 3 Likes

Part 1: Building Governed MCP Tool Services With Quarkus LangChain4j and Goose

Build governed, cloud-native Java MCP tool services for Goose agents using Quarkus LangChain4j, Java 25, and Jakarta Bean Validation.

August 26, 2026

by Daniel Oh

CORE

· 3,863 Views · 4 Likes

Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

Use Docker to create a local lakehouse environment that mirrors production, while improving data engineering workflows, Spark testing, and CI reliability.

August 25, 2026

by Aniket Abhishek Soni

· 2,530 Views · 4 Likes

Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Isolating PHI Workloads Without Slowing Down Engineering Teams

Multi-account AWS architecture enforces PHI workload isolation at the boundary level — making access control provable rather than arguable during security reviews.

August 24, 2026

by Garik H

· 2,289 Views · 1 Like

Ground Truth for AI-Written Code: Why Context Matters More Than Prompts

AI coding assistants become significantly more powerful when they understand Git history, project architecture, and shared engineering context.

August 24, 2026

by Troian Serhii

· 2,237 Views · 3 Likes

Agents and Tools in Agentic AI: A Simple Explanation

This article provides a simple introduction to agents and tools in agentic AI. It explains why we need tools and the role of the agent and the model in this process.

August 21, 2026

by Ruchi Saini

· 1,912 Views · 4 Likes

AWS Bedrock vs Vertex AI vs Azure Foundry: Stop Comparing Benchmarks, Start Asking This Instead

Compare AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry to choose the right cloud for your AI workloads based on data, models, and governance.

August 20, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,748 Views · 3 Likes

How Docker Is Becoming an AI Development Platform

Local AI dev chaos fixed by moving LLM, vector DB, and app into one Compose file, reproducible, but it's not a Kubernetes replacement.

August 19, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 32,116 Views · 6 Likes

Containerizing LLMs: Best Practices for Docker-Based AI Workloads

Bloated LLM Docker images and silent OOM kills taught me: separate weights from images, use runtime, not devel bases, and budget GPU/host memory separately.

August 19, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 29,512 Views · 5 Likes

How Different Docker Engine Versions Led to Partial Traffic Unavailability in Docker Swarm

This article is based on a real-world production case. Different Docker Engine versions on Swarm nodes led to partial traffic degradation on one of the manager nodes.

August 19, 2026

by Denis Tiumentsev

· 2,080 Views · 4 Likes

Real-Time Supply Chain Event Streaming With Kafka and Neo4j

A Kafka producer publishes shipment events, a Python consumer writes them into Neo4j, and a live Plotly dashboard shows network health updating as events arrive.

August 18, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 2,238 Views · 1 Like

Arm64 Is No Longer the Edge Case

Arm64 has become a first-class Linux platform, with upstream development and native testing improving kernel reliability, portability, and maintenance.

August 18, 2026

by Craig Hardy

· 1,663 Views · 1 Like

Building Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes: The Abstraction Problem Nobody Warns You About

Most Kubernetes platforms stop at infrastructure. Wrapping complexity in a CRD abstraction and admission webhooks, developers should specify intent, not YAML.

August 18, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,241 Views · 1 Like

Building Data Pipelines: Here's What Palantir Foundry Did That Surprised Me.

A senior data engineer's honest first impressions after a Palantir Foundry bootcamp: Five things to know before evaluating the platform.

August 18, 2026

by Sashank siwakoti

· 1,870 Views · 2 Likes

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