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From Microservices to Agents: the Next Evolution of Distributed Systems
The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems focus on decision decomposition. This shift introduces new complexities in observability, reliability, and system design, highlighting the need for updated architectural patterns and practices.
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Cryptographic Foundation of Mobile ID Systems: an ISO/IEC 18013-5 Enterprise Architecture Blueprint
This article provides a framework for asking the right architectural questions before an enterprise commits to an mDL provider or library. It shows which components can be abstracted safely, which trust boundaries must remain visible to the enterprise, what cryptographic and interoperability properties should be verified, and how requirements change across real-world use cases.
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Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go
The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required application-level routing, consistent hashing, retries, and contiguous watermark commits. Engineers conducted operational hardening supported by extensive performance testing.
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The Platform Engineering Playbook for Production LLMs
In this article, author discusses his experience with AI agent hallucinations in an inventory recommendation system and how this problem was solved by treating the LLM stack as a platform infrastructure concern instead of as an application one. He makes a case for a shared LLM platform with common services like prompt registry & versioning, schema enforcement and token cost attribution by request.
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High Availability is Not Resilience: Why Cloud Systems Fail When it Matters Most
A routine TLS 1.3 upgrade silently broke Route 53 health checks, causing a CDN to stop routing traffic to a healthy region while internal dashboards showed nothing wrong. This article examines why HA and resilience are different problems, how control-plane dependencies create invisible failure modes, and why recovery capability erodes without explicit ownership.
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Five Ways to Use AI Coding Agents to Improve Your Software Architecture
Modern architectures often use legacy services for specific tasks, but these services may lack accurate documentation and using them can be risky if you don't understand them well. AI coding agents can help close that knowledge gap.
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Beyond Relevance: a Governance-First Architecture for Enterprise Personalization
This article examines the limitations of conventional personalization systems and highlights the need for a governance-first architecture. It emphasizes separating relevance from governance to ensure recommendations are context-aware, auditable, and compliant. The architecture integrates stateful memory, policy-driven AI orchestration, and explainable scoring to enhance personalization systems.
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Architecting Secure and Scalable Facial Verification Systems
When three thousand employees verify at once, synchronous API calls collapse. This article presents a four-layer architecture for high-volume face verification: client-side filtering that cut cloud costs 30%, decoupled detection and verification enabling 10x scaling, risk-based dynamic thresholds, and zero-trust privacy with consent gates and automated data purging for GDPR and HIPAA.
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When Spec-Driven Development Pays off
AI coding assistants have become a core part of software development. AI-generated code has shown productivity gains, but it's also contributing to security weaknesses and familiar bug patterns. In this article, author Nitin Garg highlights the bottleneck has moved from code generation to code verification, and how to detect & mitigate it when the AI-generated behavior diverges from the intent.
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Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from enterprise deployments: a 60-second DNS TTL that produced 93-second failover, retry logic amplifying database load 2.4x, and AZ rebalancing loops that generic tooling misses.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography in Spring Boot: Four Patterns You Can Ship This Sprint
There are four patterns that bring PQC into a Spring Boot fleet: encrypting payloads between services, locking down database fields, signing documents that need to hold up for decades, and moving service tokens off RS256. Along the way, we discuss why Harvest Now, Decrypt Later is already happening, and why none of this is production-safe until KMS or Vault is in place.
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Beyond Offset Lag: Computing Time in Queue for Apache Hudi Data Lake Pipelines at Petabyte Scale
In this article, author Srikanth Mamidala discusses the data lake architecture used for analytics, reporting, and machine learning and shows how to manage the consumer lag metrics when using Kafka and Apache Hudi.