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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

· 3,031 Views

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

· 2,605 Views · 2 Likes

Designing Production-Grade AI Tools: Why Architecture Matters More Than Models

Many AI tools fail in production not because of model quality, but due to architectural decisions around retries, cost control, observability, and multi-tenant safety.

March 31, 2026

by Aditya Gupta

· 1,604 Views · 1 Like

Queues Don't Absorb Load — They Delay Bankruptcy

Queues hide overload. Without back-pressure, limits, and scaling, lag just grows until failure. Bound queues, alert on lag, fail fast, and plan capacity.

March 30, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 1,700 Views · 2 Likes

Scaling Kafka Consumers: Proxy vs. Client Library for High-Throughput Architectures

Scaling Apache Kafka consumption requires new patterns; proxy layers and client libraries offer practical solutions for high-throughput.

March 30, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,461 Views · 3 Likes

Deploying Java applications on Arm64 with Kubernetes

Tuning Java on Kubernetes (Arm64): align CPU/memory limits with JVM, use container-aware settings, optimize placement, and leverage OS tuning for better performance.

March 30, 2026

by Dave Neary

· 1,978 Views · 1 Like

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

· 1,057 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

· 2,011 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

· 3,304 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

· 4,251 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

· 2,708 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

· 1,711 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

· 3,510 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

· 1,265 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

· 2,275 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

· 6,689 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

· 4,069 Views