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Building an Async Validation API With AWS Bedrock Agents and Serverless Architecture
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17403842/async-validation-api
Published: August 5, 2026 12:00
As a data engineer, I’ve noticed business teams submitting intake forms, compliance documents, and project proposals that a tech team then manually validates against a set of predefined business rules stored in a database that gets updated quarterly. The…
Designing a Reliable Data Synchronization Layer: Idempotency, Ownership, and Observability
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17403423/data-sync-design
Published: August 4, 2026 19:00
In a lot of organizations, the real integration platform is a person. Someone exports orders from the ERP every morning and pastes them into the planning tool. Someone else re-types customer updates from the CRM into the invoicing system. It works until…
No Observability Tool Is the “Best”
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17402674/best-observability-tools
Published: August 3, 2026 19:00
Recently, I made a comment about the idea of there being a “best” monitoring tool:
In fact, let’s get this out in the open: There simply isn’t a singular “best” monitoring tool out there any more than there’s one singular “best” programming language, or…
Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17402418/cross-cloud-aws-to-gcp
Published: August 3, 2026 12:00
In Part 1, we solved one direction of the multi-cloud connectivity problem: a workload running in Google Cloud interacting with an AWS cloud resource. A GKE pod read a Google-issued OIDC token from the metadata server, handed it to AWS STS via…
Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17397448/spring-boot-aws-fargate
Published: July 31, 2026 15:00
My first attempt to deploy a Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate didn’t fail loudly. It failed quietly — in a loop. ECS kept launching tasks, the Application Load Balancer kept marking them unhealthy, and the service never stabilized. The logs looked…
SRE Best Practices for Production Alerting
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17396632/sre-production-alerting
Published: July 30, 2026 19:00
One of the biggest problems that teams managing large-scale distributed systems face is alert noise. Getting precise signals when something is wrong in production services is critical for maintaining the stability of production systems since it enables…
I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17396510/rag-agent-azure-ai-foundry
Published: July 30, 2026 16:00
Six months ago, building a RAG pipeline meant a full week of plumbing: an embedding job here, a vector store there, a retriever glued on with duct tape, and an orchestration layer that broke every time you touched it. I've built enough of these the hard…
Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17396459/coordinating-ai-agents-aws-sqs
Published: July 30, 2026 15:00
Building a single AI agent is not usually the hard part.
You send a prompt to a model, get a response back, and wire it into your app. Done.
AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17393104/ai-sre-self-healing
Published: July 29, 2026 17:00
Most SRE teams do not need another dashboard.
They need a safer way to move from "something is wrong" to "we know what to do next." A model that detects anomalies is useful. A model that can touch production can also make a bad incident worse.
OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors
https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23570/17388951/opamp-beyond-collectors
Published: July 27, 2026 18:00
It is good to hear that the CNCF OpenTelemetry project has become a graduated project (7 years after Fluentd, which encapsulates Fluent Bit, which is also OTLP-compliant). Admittedly, OpenTelemetry is a far larger project, as it provides tooling for tasks…