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Architecture Review Boards for Generative AI: A Framework for Governance, Risk Management, and Responsible Adoption

Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) have traditionally evaluated application architectures against key enterprise criteria such as security, scalabil...
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 2:00 pm

Spring AI on Local LLMs

Why Running It Locally The usual reason given is privacy, and it’s a real one. A prompt sent to a local model never leaves the machine, which chang...
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 2:00 pm

How to Keep AI Agents From Going Rogue Using Docker Sandbox

An AI agent is an "autonomous software program that uses artificial intelligence to make a plan, execute tools, and complete an action." Autonomy (...
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 1:00 pm

Testing Java and Spring Applications With Kotlin: Low-Risk to Adoption

Teams considering or committed to adopting Kotlin often plan a migration as a series of rewrites, swapping Java services for Kotlin counterparts on...
Posted on 20 October 2026 | 2:09 pm

A Reference Architecture for Constrained AI-Assisted Design

Bounded generation: Let AI choose within a space where a deterministic engine guarantees validity. Most attempts to put AI into design tooling adop...
Posted on 19 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

GenAI Security Gateway: An End-to-End Architecture

LLMs are powerful application components, but they should not be exposed directly to untrusted users or unvetted documents. A request can contain a...
Posted on 19 October 2026 | 3:00 pm

Hot-Reloading Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in Go With mamori (No Pod Restarts)

If you run Go services on Kubernetes, you know the ritual. You update a Secret or a ConfigMap, and then you do one of these: kubectl rollout rest...
Posted on 19 October 2026 | 1:00 pm

How to Contain Partial Failures in Distributed Systems

Distributed systems rarely fail as a single unit. More often, one dependency slows down, one shard becomes unavailable, one region loses capacity, ...
Posted on 16 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

When Retries Become Failure Amplifiers: The Hidden Cost of Recovery at Scale

The City Traffic Analogy Imagine a city's traffic system during rush hour. A minor accident blocks one lane on a major highway. Traffic slows down,...
Posted on 16 October 2026 | 12:00 pm

Node and Capacity Spillover: What Happens When Kubernetes Runs Out of Room

A pod stuck in Pending is one of the most misleading states in Kubernetes. Nothing looks wrong. There's no error banner, no red text screaming at y...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 7:00 pm

Going All In On the JVM 25 Virtual Threads

The project AngularAndSpring has been refactored from Spring Reactor to Spring blocking APIs using JDK 25 and virtual threads. The Old Architecture...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 6:00 pm

When One Docker Swarm Replica Became Unreachable Over an Overlay Network: A Production Case With Traefik

Context The incident occurred in the production backend infrastructure of a mobile application. External HTTP traffic was handled by Traefik, deplo...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

Kafka With Spring Boot: Introduction

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that enables real-time data ingestion, storage, and processing of continuous event streams. To do t...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

Beyond @Transactional: Solving the Dual-Write Problem in Distributed Microservices

The Illusion of a Single Database In a traditional monolithic application, maintaining data consistency is straightforward. If you need to create a...
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 3:00 pm

Docker Sandboxes Beyond the Laptop: Running AI Agents in the Cloud

In my previous article, I walked through running coding agents inside Docker Sandboxes on a local machine. We installed the sbx CLI, started with a...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 12:00 pm

Your Cloud Diagram Is Already Out of Date: An Operating Model for Continuous Security Architecture

The Diagram-to-Deployment Gap Cloud security architecture often begins with a strong design, account boundaries are defined, identity federation an...
Posted on 1 October 2026 | 12:00 pm

The Silent Container Death: A TCP Dial That Never Times Out

A pod goes into CrashLoopBackOff. You pull the logs expecting a stack trace, a panic, an error string - anything that points you somewhere. Instead...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

Beyond Batch: Engineering Enterprise Systems for Real-Time Decisioning

The Batch Processing Problem Batch processing isn't inherently a disadvantage. It becomes a problem when the business needs a decision now, but the...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 7:00 pm

Building a Practical Cloud-Native Golden Path: A Guide to Kubernetes-Based Service Delivery, Self-Service, and Developer-Friendly Defaults

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Cloud-Native Foundations: Kubernetes, Platform E...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:30 pm

Kubernetes Operations Playbook: The Essentials for Keeping Scale, Complexity, and Drift Under Control

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Cloud-Native Foundations: Kubernetes, Platform E...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 3:30 pm