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Azure Cosmos DB Playground: Learn and Experiment With Queries in Your Browser

Interactive, browser-based Azure Cosmos DB playground to learn, prototype, and test SQL queries instantly — no setup, installation, or cloud costs required.

March 30, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 990 Views

From Stream to Strategy: How TOON Enhances Real-Time Kafka Processing for AI

The TOON data format specifically targets the propagation of structured, validated, and semantically consistent data, thereby reducing ambiguity in real time.

March 27, 2026

by Gautam Goswami

CORE

· 1,895 Views

When Kubernetes Says "All Green" But Your System Is Already Failing

Learn about how standard cluster observability misses the failure signals that matter most during real incidents, outages, and postmortems.

March 26, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,182 Views

MCP vs Skills vs Agents With Scripts: Which One Should You Pick?

Learn about when to use MCP, skills, and agents with scripts. How are they different from each other and what are they actually meant to be used for.

March 26, 2026

by Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS

CORE

· 3,713 Views · 2 Likes

AI Agents vs LLMs: Choosing the Right Tool for AI Tasks

Use an LLM for single-step tasks; use an AI agent when the job needs planning + tool/API orchestration across multiple steps.

March 25, 2026

by Faisal Feroz

· 2,541 Views · 2 Likes

Mastering Serverless Architecture: Event-Driven Design with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB

A comprehensive guide to building serverless event-driven systems using Azure Functions and Cosmos DB, featuring real-world patterns.

March 25, 2026

by Jubin Abhishek Soni

CORE

· 1,609 Views

The Phantom Write Problem: Why Your Idempotency Implementation Is Silently Losing Data

A practical explanation of why idempotent APIs still produce phantom writes in production, and a race-free, transactional pattern to prevent them.

March 24, 2026

by Saumya Tyagi

· 2,926 Views · 2 Likes

Why Supply Chain Planning Still Breaks Even with Advanced Forecasting Tools

Supply chain planning fails because tools cannot compensate for poor data quality, execution gaps, and misaligned decision-making structures.

March 23, 2026

by Harpalsinh Vala

· 1,159 Views

Shrink a Bloated Git Repository and Optimize Pack Files

This article walks you through why Git repos grow, how to find and remove hidden large files, and how to optimize pack files to get your repo back into shape.

March 23, 2026

by Shivi Kashyap

· 1,839 Views

Kubernetes Scheduler Plugins: Optimizing AI/ML Workloads

Custom Kubernetes scheduler plugins improve GPU utilization by understanding GPU topology, workload types, and gang scheduling requirements.

March 20, 2026

by Varun Kumar Reddy Gajjala

· 6,588 Views

Nvidia’s Open Model Super Panel Made a Strong Case for Open Agents

At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang, Aravind Srinivas, Harrison Chase, Mira Murati, and Michael Truell made a compelling case that the future of AI belongs to open agent systems, not just open models.

March 19, 2026

by Corey Noles

· 3,996 Views

Building Fault-Tolerant Spring Boot Microservices With Kafka and AWS

Build fault-tolerant Spring Boot microservices with Kafka using retries, DLTs, idempotency, and AWS Lambda for scalable, resilient event processing.

March 19, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 3,514 Views

Automating IBM MQ Console (MQ Web Server) Startup Post-Server Reboot

This article provides simple steps to configure the IBM MQ Web Server for automatic startup as a system service on both Windows and Linux.

March 17, 2026

by Ram Kasivisvanathan

· 2,829 Views

Online Feature Store for AI and Machine Learning with Apache Kafka and Flink

Real-time feature store powered by Apache Kafka and Flink enable fast, scalable AI personalization with fresh data and low-latency processing.

March 16, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 2,815 Views · 1 Like

How Multimodal AI Is Reshaping Kubernetes Workflows: Future-Proofing Your Platform

Kubernetes is becoming the backbone of multimodal AI — combining GPUs, smart schedulers, and model-serving tools to run text, image, etc., cost-effectively.

March 16, 2026

by Vamshidhar Parupally

· 3,547 Views

Understanding Custom Authorization Mechanisms in Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync

This article compares the use of custom Lambda authorizers in AWS API Gateway and AWS AppSync, focusing on their respective approaches to API authorization.

March 13, 2026

by Leslie Daniel Raj

· 4,282 Views · 2 Likes