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Designing Effective Meetings in Tech: From Time Wasters to Strategic Tools

Most meetings waste time due to poor design. Treat them as systems: clear goals, async prep, solid docs. Use AI to capture decisions and scale knowledge — not chaos.

May 15, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 1,139 Views

Working With Cowork: Don’t Be Confused

Working with Cowork: Claude Desktop is three applications pretending to be one. In this article, see the tables of what is shared.

May 14, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,447 Views

AWS Kiro: The Agentic IDE That Makes Specs the Unit of Work

You describe a feature, and Kiro generates structured requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md files first, then implements against them.

May 13, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 2,858 Views · 2 Likes

Solving the Mystery: Why Java RSS Grows in Docker on M1 Macs

Java apps running in x86-64 Docker containers on ARM64 M1 Macs experience mysterious RSS memory growth due to Rosetta 2 translation cache. The culprit? JIT compilation.

May 12, 2026

by Sumeet Sharma

· 3,649 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring Spring Boot Applications with Prometheus and Grafana

Demonstrates how to expose Spring Boot metrics with Prometheus and build Grafana dashboards to track memory usage and error rates for production-grade Java services.

May 11, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 1,905 Views · 1 Like

The Serverless Illusion: When “Pay for What You Use” Becomes Expensive

Serverless isn’t inherently cheaper. Hidden costs add up, and at scale it’s often pricier than containers — best for sporadic, not steady workloads.

May 11, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,263 Views · 1 Like

Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) for NL2SQL: A Rigorous Evaluation Framework on Oracle Database

Used MCP to evaluate LLM-generated SQL on Oracle: baseline vs MCP, comparing semantics, order, strings, and EXPLAIN PLAN on 500-query TPC-H.

May 8, 2026

by Sanjay Mishra

· 1,911 Views

How AI Is Rewriting Full-Stack Java Systems: Practical Patterns with Spring Boot, Kafka and WebSockets

Decouple heavy processing with Spring Boot, Kafka, and WebSockets: AI consumers analyze events asynchronously, while WebSockets deliver real-time insights to users.

May 8, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 2,727 Views · 1 Like

Production Checklist for Tool-Using AI Agents in Enterprise Apps

Tool-using AI agents are production software. The same ops discipline applies, but some traditional assumptions quietly break.

May 7, 2026

by Pier-Jean MALANDRINO

CORE

· 2,793 Views · 1 Like

How We Diagnosed a Hidden Scheduler Failure in a Docker Swarm Cluster Serving 2 Million Users

A real production incident in a Docker Swarm cluster — how a routine service update triggered a silent scheduler failure, and how we uncovered it.

May 5, 2026

by Denis Tiumentsev

· 1,722 Views · 1 Like

Evolving Spring Boot APIs to an Event-Driven Mesh

Learn to transform Spring Boot REST APIs into an event-driven architecture by utilizing Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS to enhance scalability, resilience, and responsiveness.

May 5, 2026

by Lavi Kumar

· 1,490 Views · 1 Like

Mastering Kubernetes to Maximize Your Cloud Potential

Understanding Kubernetes architecture through seven critical layers: storage, compute, networking, observability, security, dev tools, and CI/CD.

May 4, 2026

by Jaswinder Kumar

· 1,810 Views · 2 Likes

Building Fault-Tolerant Kafka Consumers in Spring Boot Using Retry, DLQ, and Idempotent Code Patterns

Retry transient failures, route poison messages to a DLQ, and deduplicate with a DB table three layers that turn a fragile Kafka consumer into a fault tolerant one.

May 4, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 2,190 Views · 1 Like

Understanding MCP Architecture: LLM + API vs Model Context Protocol

PDF chatbot demo comparing LLM+API vs MCP: direct calls are simple for one app; MCP adds a server layer for tool discovery, reuse, and standardization.

May 1, 2026

by Sanjay Mishra

· 4,594 Views · 3 Likes

End-to-End Event Streaming With Kafka, Spring Boot and AWS SQS/SNS (Production-Ready Code Guide)

Kafka streams it, SNS fans it out, and SQS decouples it — three platforms, one resilient event pipeline wired together with Spring Boot.

April 30, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 2,379 Views · 3 Likes

AI Agents for DevOps on Kubernetes Need Real Engineering, Not Magic

Kubernetes incident triage: OpenTelemetry → Kafka → CrewAI → RBAC scale. DORA 2024: 75% AI use, 39% low trust. AI correlates, humans approve changes.

April 30, 2026

by Abdul Majid Qureshi

· 2,275 Views

5 Ways Azure AI Search Enhances Enterprise RAG Architectures

Azure AI Search enhances RAG through hybrid search, semantic reranking, and enterprise-grade security for scalable production AI apps.

April 30, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 3,256 Views

What AWS Kiro Matters for Agentic Development

AWS Kiro is a high-speed communication fabric for AI agents, enabling sub-millisecond coordination and persistent memory management.

April 29, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 2,157 Views

Open-Source LLM Tools Worth Your Time

Building with LLMs in 2026 means more than picking a model and calling an API. This article covers the full open-source stack by defining tools and their usage.

April 28, 2026

by Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS

CORE

· 3,652 Views · 2 Likes

Java Backend Development in the Era of Kubernetes and Docker

Containerization with Docker and orchestration through Kubernetes enables Java backends to be deployed, scaled, managed efficiently in modern cloud-native environments.

April 28, 2026

by Ramya vani Rayala

· 4,229 Views · 5 Likes

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