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Cognitive Databases, Intelligent Data

No longer passive storage and query engines, databases are becoming active, intelligent participants in how modern systems interpret, connect, and ...
Posted on 18 June 2026 | 1:16 pm

Platform Engineering and DevOps

Platform engineering and DevOps are merging as organizations scale, modernize, and push to reduce cognitive load across increasingly complex system...
Posted on 21 May 2026 | 2:19 pm

Shipping Production-Grade AI Agents

Building an AI agent prototype is one thing; running it safely and reliably in production is another. This Refcard walks engineers and technical le...
Posted on 30 April 2026 | 3:56 pm

Security by Design

Security teams are dealing with faster release cycles, increased automation across CI/CD pipelines, a widening attack surface, and new risks introd...
Posted on 23 April 2026 | 3:30 pm

Generative AI

Generative AI has become a default feature expectation, pushing engineering teams to treat models like production dependencies that are governed, m...
Posted on 19 March 2026 | 1:15 pm

API Management

Developers globally are reclaiming their voice and authority in shaping the software and tools they use regularly. Pivoting from more rigid mindset...
Posted on 22 January 2026 | 6:00 pm

Database Systems

Every organization is now in the business of data, but they must keep up as database capabilities and the purposes they serve continue to evolve. S...
Posted on 20 November 2025 | 3:59 pm

Intelligent Observability

Most modern systems portray a clear story about their performance, yet it’s often buried under mountains of data too convoluted to be actionable. T...
Posted on 23 October 2025 | 1:59 pm

Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Over a decade in, Kubernetes is the central force in modern application delivery. However, as its adoption has matured, so have its challenges: spr...
Posted on 18 September 2025 | 3:43 pm

Data Engineering

Across the globe, companies aren't just collecting data, they are rethinking how it's stored, accessed, processed, and trusted by both internal and...
Posted on 31 July 2025 | 2:18 pm

Software Supply Chain Security

Gone are the days of fragmented security checkpoints and analyzing small pieces of the larger software security puzzle. Today, we are managing our ...
Posted on 26 June 2025 | 3:46 pm

SBOM Essentials

As organizations rely more on open-source and third-party components, software supply chain security has become more crucial than ever before. Soft...
Posted on 18 June 2025 | 4:19 pm

Generative AI

AI technology is now more accessible, more intelligent, and easier to use than ever before. Generative AI, in particular, has transformed nearly ev...
Posted on 20 March 2025 | 1:03 pm

Developer Experience

With tech stacks becoming increasingly diverse and AI and automation continuing to take over everyday tasks and manual workflows, the tech industry...
Posted on 20 February 2025 | 3:37 pm

Getting Started With Agentic AI

Advancements in AI and automation have paved the way toward agentic automation. Integrating advanced AI techniques, agentic automation enables auto...
Posted on 31 January 2025 | 3:18 pm

Java Application Containerization and Deployment

Application containerization provides a way to combine all required app resources into a single, standardized, easily manageable package. And for J...
Posted on 19 December 2024 | 2:12 pm

Observability and Performance

The dawn of observability across the software ecosystem has fully disrupted standard performance monitoring and management. Enhancing these approac...
Posted on 26 November 2024 | 4:41 pm

Data Engineering

Over a decade ago, DZone welcomed the arrival of its first ever data-centric publication. Since then, the trends surrounding the data movement have...
Posted on 31 October 2024 | 9:40 pm

Platform Engineering Essentials

Platform engineering aims to enhance the developer experience through the establishment of secure environments, automated and self-service tools, a...
Posted on 31 October 2024 | 3:51 pm

Kubernetes in the Enterprise

In 2014, Kubernetes' first commit was pushed to production. And 10 years later, it is now one of the most prolific open-source systems in the softw...
Posted on 26 September 2024 | 5:26 pm