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Docker Containers Don’t Know Your Model Is Still Loading

A launch traffic spike hit cold-loaded LLM containers; shared-memory crashes and KV-cache OOMs taught us why GPU autoscaling needs warm floors, not reactive scaling.

August 5, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 32,682 Views · 2 Likes

Why LLM Pipelines Fail in Production and How Temporal and Kafka Fix Them

LLM pipelines fail from retries, failures, and long-running workflows; Kafka provides reliable event streaming, while Temporal ensures durable, fault-tolerant execution.

August 5, 2026

by Akhil Madineni

CORE

· 3,001 Views · 3 Likes

Building an Async Validation API With AWS Bedrock Agents and Serverless Architecture

Build a serverless async API that uses AWS Bedrock Agents to validate business forms against 60+ rules in under 60 seconds, without blocking the user.

August 5, 2026

by Rohit Nagpal

· 2,037 Views · 1 Like

Agentic RAG: Basic RAG Plus MCP Tool Calls

Classic RAG is great at answering "what does the policy say?" It's terrible at answering "how many leave days do I have left?"

August 4, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 3,041 Views · 1 Like

I Built a Java Version Manager by Fixing Other Tools' Open Bugs

There is no point in shipping another Java Version Manager unless it is best in class, so I mined the test suites and bug trackers of SDKMAN, jenv, mise, volta, and asdf.

August 4, 2026

by David Lerner

· 3,374 Views · 2 Likes

No Observability Tool Is the “Best”

There's no single "best" monitoring tool — like cars or pizza, "best" depends on your specific needs, budget, and skills.

August 3, 2026

by Leon Adato

· 1,729 Views · 2 Likes

Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ

This guide demonstrates exchanging an AWS SigV4 Request for a GCP access token to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.

August 3, 2026

by Sandeep Pal

· 1,460 Views · 3 Likes

Containerizing and Testing a Python Backtesting System With Docker and GitHub Actions

Learn how to containerize a Python backtesting system with Docker, automate testing with GitHub Actions, and improve reproducibility through versioned builds.

July 31, 2026

by Gillian Lu

· 2,459 Views · 3 Likes

Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

Deploy a production-ready Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate with Docker, ECS, ALB health checks, private subnets, secrets, CI/CD, and autoscaling.

July 31, 2026

by Vishal Rameshchandra Shah

· 2,895 Views · 5 Likes

Retrieval Augmented Generation With Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector

Build a RAG service with Spring AI 2.0, Claude, and PGvector that answers questions from your own documents with a single API key.

July 31, 2026

by Murat Balkan

CORE

· 3,111 Views · 2 Likes

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,391 Views · 2 Likes

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,900 Views · 4 Likes

Build Your Own Local AI QA Engineer With Docker, Ollama, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a completely local AI-powered QA Automation Engineer using Docker, Ollama, Qwen3:8b, LibreChat, and Playwright MCP.

July 30, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 9,253 Views · 2 Likes

What Nobody Tells You About Running AI Models in Docker

At 2 am, a bloated 14GB Docker image with baked-in weights crashed our inference service; externalizing weights and rethinking GPU isolation fixed it.

July 29, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 34,999 Views · 3 Likes

The Lethal Trifecta Is Hiding in Your MCP Server

MCP makes it trivial to give an agent the "lethal trifecta," so one poisoned input can leak your secrets. Prompts can't stop it; a deterministic broker can.

July 29, 2026

by Veera Ravindra DIVI

· 2,576 Views · 1 Like

From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

As Kubernetes deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, permanently provisioned infrastructure becomes an expensive default. Here's how scale-from-zero aligns capacity with actual demand instead of worst-case scenarios.

July 28, 2026

by DZone Staff

· 12,139 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Voice-Controlled Graph Assistant With Neo4j, LiveKit, and OpenAI

Build a voice assistant that lets you ask natural-language questions to a Neo4j graph database and hear the answers spoken back.

July 27, 2026

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 3,073 Views · 1 Like

From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026

Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.

July 24, 2026

by Nathan Smith

· 3,162 Views · 2 Likes

How Agentic AI Is Turning Traditional Automation Into a Tool Layer?

Agentic AI doesn’t replace traditional automation. It uses existing workflows, APIs, and systems as tools while handling decisions, exceptions, and complex tasks.

July 22, 2026

by Sagar Sahay Bhatnagar

· 3,680 Views · 1 Like

Search Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents

The future of AI agents is searchable tool discovery, not hardcoded APIs. MCP and semantic search are turning tools into capabilities agents can find and use at runtime.

July 21, 2026

by sunil paidi

· 2,618 Views · 1 Like

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