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AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed

Thirteen thousand internal screenshots from 343 technology companies are sitting in public GitHub repositories because a coding agent could not att...
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:25 pm

Decoding the “Black Box”: Evaluating Agent Tool Chains in Production

One of the most interesting parts of my role as a cloud solution architect is working directly with customers as they move from experimentation to ...
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 5:00 pm

Building and Serving a Custom Model With Azure ML, Then Wiring It Into a Foundry Agent

The Foundry model catalog covers a lot of ground, but it doesn't cover everything. If you need a model trained on your own proprietary, tabular dat...
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 6:00 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

Wasm Inside Neo4j: Building the Example That Didn't Exist

In a recent DZone article, Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin, we explored several approaches to running sentiment analysis...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 6:00 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

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

Six Degrees of Ayrton Senna: Learn Neo4j by Connecting 75 Years of Formula 1

One of my favorite things about F1 racing is the data behind it. F1 cars are the most complex and advanced in any racing series. They collect huge ...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

AWS 7R Migration Strategies: A Decision Framework for Engineering Teams

Most AWS migration projects don't fail because of technical complexity. They fail because teams treat migration as a single activity rather than a ...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

Why Databricks and Snowflake Speak the Kafka Protocol: Ingestion vs Architecture

Kafka-compatible ingestion is showing up everywhere now, including in analytics platforms that have nothing to do with running Kafka. Databricks ad...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

Git Blame Isn’t Enough: Building Verifiable Provenance for AI-Generated Code

AI-generated software needs provenance that survives beyond the chat window. A code review can show what changed, but it rarely shows which model p...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 2:00 pm

A Deep Dive into the Microsoft Foundry Document Intelligence SDK: From PDF to Structured Data

Most "RAG over PDFs" pipelines have a step nobody talks about much: something has to turn a scanned invoice, a multi-column contract, or a photogra...
Posted on 29 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

From Giant Prompts to On-Demand Skills: Build an Extensible AI Agent With Progressive Disclosure

Large agent prompts often begin as a practical shortcut: policies, domain rules, tool descriptions, examples, recovery procedures, and integration ...
Posted on 28 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

Building a Product Recommendation Engine With Neo4j — No ML Library Required

When many developers think about recommendation engines, they think of machine learning: collaborative filtering models, matrix factorization, embe...
Posted on 28 September 2026 | 2:00 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

Your Terraform Monolith Isn't Too Big. It's Tightly Coupled.

The first warning sign wasn't an outage. It was a boring pull request. We changed one App Service setting. It was the sort of change that should ha...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 7:00 pm

Architecting for <1s Latency: Managing Eventual Consistency in Distributed Search Platforms

At a logistics visibility company, the shipment state can change thousands of times per second due to the massive scale of operations. Such changes...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

When an iOS Retry Executes an Agent Twice: Building Effectively-Once Tool Workflows With LangGraph, MCP Tasks, Kafka, and App Attest

A mobile request can fail without the server-side work failing. An iOS app may time out, lose the response after a POST has reached the service, or...
Posted on 21 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

MCP vs REST/HTTP API vs Kafka: The Architect's Guide to Agentic AI Integration

Every major AI vendor now supports the Model Context Protocol. The framing is almost always the same: MCP is the universal connector for AI agents ...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 7:00 pm