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How We Predict Dataflow Job Duration Using ML and Observability Data

Efficiently managing large-scale data pipelines requires not only monitoring job performance but also anticipating how long jobs will run before th...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 5:00 pm

Building Your Tech Career Like Code: A Systematic AI Approach

The traditional “climb the ladder” approach to tech careers has transformed to “climb the lattice.” A data analyst pivots to cloud architecture, a ...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 4:00 pm

DZone's 2025 Developer Community Survey

Another year passed right under our noses, and software development trends moved along with it. The steady rise of AI, the introduction of vibe cod...
Posted on 15 December 2025 | 4:30 pm

Breaking Into Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know

You’ve been a developer or an engineer for a while now, and you know each module of your codebase inside out. You’ve solved every kind of pesky bug...
Posted on 10 December 2025 | 5:00 pm

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

The role of a Scrum Master is to establish Scrum, and the Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Thus, it is quite temptin...
Posted on 7 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

AI Code Generation: The Productivity Paradox in Software Development

Measuring and improving developer productivity has long been a complex and contentious topic in software engineering. With the rapid rise of AI acr...
Posted on 5 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

Improving Developer Productivity With End-to-End GenAI Enablement

This is a very common scenario that every developer can relate to — I am focused on a feature, and suddenly my project buddy requests a PR review o...
Posted on 30 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

From Platform Cowboys to Governance Marshals: Taming the AI Wild West

The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence has ushered in an unprecedented era, often likened to a modern-day gold rush. This "AI gold rush," whil...
Posted on 22 October 2025 | 4:00 pm

Senior Developers, What to Read Next?

Recently, one of my best friends, who is, in the meantime, one of the smartest developers I have the luck to know, asked me what book he should rea...
Posted on 14 October 2025 | 7:00 pm

CNCF Triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86

The Challenge Developing open-source software for deployment on Arm64 architecture requires a robust continuous integration and continuous deployme...
Posted on 14 October 2025 | 3:55 pm

Master Developer Writing: From Docs and Pull Requests to Blog Posts

Developers are natural problem-solvers. We think in systems, patterns, and code. But one of the most underrated skills in a developer's toolkit has...
Posted on 7 October 2025 | 2:00 pm

7 AWS Services Every Data Engineer Should Master

If you work in data engineering, you know the job is a constant balance between speed, reliability, and maintainability. It is not enough to just m...
Posted on 6 October 2025 | 5:00 pm

AI Readiness: Why Cloud Infrastructure Will Decide Who Wins the Next Wave

Everywhere I go, cloud and DevOps teams are asking the same question: “Are we ready for AI?”
Posted on 23 September 2025 | 4:30 pm

Best Software Engineer Books: Build Your Personal Library

I believe that every one of us, software engineers, should have our own personal library of software engineering books. Whether in old plain-text b...
Posted on 18 September 2025 | 7:00 pm

Beyond DORA: Building a Holistic Framework for Engineering Metrics

My journey in the technical field has taken me from hands-on software engineering to the CTO’s role. In my monthly and quarterly routines at my cur...
Posted on 10 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

Take AI Out of Your Silos—Why Team Experience Trumps Developer Tools

You wouldn't try to design a product by focusing on one piece at a time. The best products in the world solve problems by reimagining, not by incre...
Posted on 4 September 2025 | 2:00 pm

The AI Co-Pilot: How to Lead When Your Team's Best Player Is a Machine

It’s happening in stand-ups and one-on-ones everywhere. An engineer explains how they cleared a mountain of tickets over the weekend. "How'd you ge...
Posted on 1 September 2025 | 6:00 pm

Enhancing Productivity With RAG-Based GenAI Solutions

So what exactly is RAG? In simple terms, it stands for retrieval-augmented generation. Let us focus on these two aspects: retrieval and generation....
Posted on 1 September 2025 | 2:00 pm

Code That Isn’t Afraid of Change

In this article, you’ll find some personal observations and tips on how to keep a project alive and healthy over the years. No illusions of omnisci...
Posted on 1 September 2025 | 1:00 pm

Implementing Budget Policies and Budget Limits on Databricks

This guide walks us through the steps to implement Budget Policies and Budget Policy limits on Serverless Compute in Databricks to effectively and ...
Posted on 29 August 2025 | 3:00 pm