Tech Blogs Digest 08.12 - 14.12
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This week
🏗️ Architecture - event-driven user feedback platform and real-time collaboration system design
🤖 LLMs in production - debugging a $5,000 RAG hallucination, session-aware recommenders, Claude’s MCP and more
📊 Data - optimising OLAP queries and dbt incremental models
⚙️ DevOps - distributed tracing in AWS ETL pipelines, Lambda durable functions and more
🧮 Data Science - a meteorology‑focused explanation of bilinear interpolation, and liquid time constants
🛡️ Security - how AWS IAM eventual consistency creates security risks
☕ Java - modular monoliths framework for Spring Boot
🏗️ ARCHITECTURE
Building a User Generated Content System at Scapia | 10 min read
Scapia engineered a scalable, event-driven user feedback platform that boosts reviews and fuels smarter travel insights with dynamic forms and gamification.
Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications: A Deep Dive into WebRTC, WebSockets, and Conflict Resolution | 10 min read
Crafting real-time collaboration from scratch with WebSockets, WebRTC and conflict-resolution logic that keeps everyone in sync without chaos.
🤖 LLMS IN PRODUCTION
A corporate RAG bot’s hallucination nearly approved a $5,000 dinner; the author breaks down key evaluation metrics like faithfulness and recall to debug AI errors with math.
A hybrid AI design lets Chrome’s local Gemini Nano handle fast, privacy-first tasks while cloud models take on heavy reasoning, optimizing performance and resource use.
From Toy Recommender to a Mini Netflix- How I Built a Session-Aware Movie Recommendation System (V1-V4) | 14 min read
A step-by-step build from basic filtering to a session-aware, feedback-driven movie recommender that feels closer to a small-scale Netflix than a typical tutorial.
Claude’s Model Context Protocol article explains how a protocol unifies server intercommunication, buffer memory management and RAG optimization to scale AI systems efficiently. | 14 min read
Your healthcare AI slowly fades from accuracy as medicine evolves—outdated data and shifting protocols erode performance unless you monitor and retrain continuously.
📊 DATA
A practical guide that distills ten real-world OLAP performance tactics—from bottleneck profiling to production trade-offs—to help queries run faster and scale smoothly.
Most teams misconfigure dbt incremental models by overlooking key components—this piece breaks down the four essentials that unlock reliable, efficient builds.
⚙️ DEVOPS
A unified data‑centre network merges Arista’s high‑performance fabric with Cilium’s eBPF‑powered CNI to streamline overlay networking and Kubernetes traffic efficiently.
Deploy Kubernetes Apps to Multiple Environments with Kustomize, Helm, and ArgoCD: A Complete GitOps Guide | 11 min read
A hands‑on GitOps walkthrough showing how to unify Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD to deploy the same Kubernetes app across dev, staging and prod with environment‑specific configs.
Distributed Tracing in AWS ETL Pipelines | 13 min read
A clear walkthrough of how AWS X‑Ray, OpenTelemetry and a “trace generator” pattern illuminate where bottlenecks or silent failures occur across complex, multi‑service ETL pipelines.
A practical technical overview of Lambda durable functions, showing how they coordinate state, retries and long‑running workflows without external orchestration.
🧮 DATA SCIENCE
Bilinear Interpolation in Meteorology with .NET / C# | 23 min read
A meteorology‑focused explanation of bilinear interpolation shows how to smoothly estimate weather values at arbitrary coordinates from coarse model grids and implement it in .NET/C#.
Liquid time constants (LTCs) revitalize sequence learning by adapting model dynamics continuously, offering richer representations than static RNNs or Transformers.
🛡️ SECURITY
A new AWS IAM research post reveals how the service’s eventual consistency leaves a brief 3–4‑second window after credential revocation that attackers can use to retain or re‑establish access before deletions fully propagate. It underlines why traditional key revocation and policy attachments may fail without account‑level controls like Service Control Policies in incident response playbooks.
☕ JAVA
Modular Monolith with Spring Boot — Spring Modulith | 12 min read
Spring Modulith enables modular monolith architecture in Spring Boot, balancing modular boundaries with simplicity before premature microservices.
Solid curation here. The piece on distributed tracing in AWS ETL pipelines caught my attention, especially how it frames X-Ray and OpenTelemetry as ways to surface "silent failures" in multi-service flows. I've worked on pipelines where we'd only find out about data quality issues days later because there was no trace showing which step dropped records. The trace generator pattern they mention is actually clever, kinda like synthetic monitoring but for data lineage. One thing that would round this out is more on cost implications, becuase tracing at high volumes gets expensive fast if you're not sampling intelligently.