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GitLab monorepo CI done right: from a monolithic pipeline to tag-routed Runners

Kushagra Bansal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:07:36 +0000

Introduction We had a monorepo. Frontend, three backend services, a couple of shared libraries, all living in one repo. Great for developers who want to change an API and its caller in a single commit. Rough on CI. The problem showed up slowly and then all at once. Every push, no matter how tiny, kicked […]

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🐇 RabbitMQTest — A Simple RabbitMQ Demo in C#

Kandarp Gautam — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:01:29 +0000

The RabbitMQTest repository is a C# project that demonstrates how to use RabbitMQ for message queuing. It brings the producer–consumer pattern to life, showing how a producer streams messages and a consumer processes them asynchronously — perfect for developers exploring event-driven communication. 🔗 Repository link: https://github.com/kandarpgautam/RabbitMQTest 🎯 From Basics to Brilliance Brings the producer–consumer pattern […]

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Kubernetes Cluster Backup & Restore on S3 Bucket using Velero

Pranjal Tripathi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:39:13 +0000

Introduction Someone deletes a namespace by accident. A migration goes sideways and you need last week’s cluster state back, not just today’s. A node group gets torn down before anyone thought to check what was running on it. Kubernetes does not protect you from any of this by default etcd holds your cluster’s state, but […]

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From Naive RAG to Production-Grade Agent: The 6-Stage Architecture of an Enterprise AI Assistant

Krishna Jain — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:48:20 +0000

Introduction Large Language Model (LLM) applications are evolving beyond single prompt-and-response setups. While basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scripts work well for simple Q&A over documents, real-world enterprise environments demand a much broader set of capabilities.In production, enterprise data is inherently fragmented: HR policies reside in unstructured PDFs, workforce metrics live in relational databases (SQL), and […]

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Reporting Without the Panic: A Script’s Perspective

Suvrat Jain — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:24:09 +0000

Can You Trust the Report Sitting in Your Inbox? Every marketing team knows this morning. A report is due. Someone is jumping between five platforms, exporting numbers by hand, pasting them into a sheet, hoping last week’s formula changes didn’t break anything. It goes out late. There’s always a small doubt: did a number land […]

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Beyond the Ticket: How the Global Lottery is Reimagining Customer Experience for the Connected Era

Surabhi Ravindra Kala — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:36:12 +0000

Introduction From banking and retail to healthcare, legacy industries are being reshaped by digital transformation. One sector that often goes unnoticed but offers some of the most fascinating lessons is the lottery industry. Behind the simple act of buying a lottery ticket lies a complex ecosystem balancing technology, public trust, regulatory compliance, and retail partnerships. […]

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Instant Zephyr Test Cases from Jira Stories with Kiro

Surabhi Ravindra Kala — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:18:25 +0000

As test automation engineers, we have been striving to minimize this time difference between feature specification and test coverage for years. A conventional approach may involve time intensive QA engineers reading through user stories in Jira and then recreating acceptance criteria (AC) in test scenarios, copying the test scenarios into Zephyr Squad, and then recording […]

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Spec-Driven Development Using AI Agents: A Smarter Way to Build Software

Pankaj Gupta — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:42:54 +0000

Let’s Start With a Honest Question How many times have you jumped straight into coding, only to realize halfway through that you misunderstood the requirement? Or worse — you built exactly what was asked for, but not what was actually needed? If you’ve been in software development for more than a few months or years, […]

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Building a Scalable OTT Player for Apple TV: Architecture and Best Practices

Chandra Shekhar Rai — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:43:58 +0000

Introduction As streaming services continue to evolve, users expect a seamless and feature-rich viewing experience across all devices, including Apple TV. While AVPlayerViewController offers a robust playback solution out of the box, modern OTT platforms often require greater flexibility to support custom branding, advanced playback controls, personalised content recommendations, analytics, advertisements, and DRM. Building a […]

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Apple Intelligence Explained: How On-Device AI and Foundation Models Work

Shephali Srivas — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:35:25 +0000

Introduction Apple has been introduced Apple intelligence for making your application faster, smarter and personalized. Apple intelligence is an new experience for users that provides intelligence search, content recommendations, text summarization and natural language understanding. Apple intelligence is mostly work with Apple Silicon and Neural Engine for executing AI related tasks. In this blog, you […]

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Slack Escalation Bot: Building a Zero-Timeout Ticket System with AWS Lambda and SNS

Ritika Chauhan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:47:01 +0000

Introduction Imagine a client’s website fails at midnight. Your team is on Slack, and raising a support ticket involves opening a browser, logging into Fresh service, filling out a form, and waiting for it to be assigned. In an urgent situation, every extra step adds unnecessary delay. so to simplify this, we created a Slack […]

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Terraform State Migration: Seamlessly Moving from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage

Ashish Sharma — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:43:10 +0000

Introduction: What if the single source of truth for your entire infrastructure lived in the wrong cloud? For years, our Terraform state lived in an AWS S3 bucket while our infrastructure increasingly ran on Google Cloud Platform. That split created cross-cloud dependencies, IAM complexity, and a growing mismatch between where we managed infrastructure and where […]

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