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Article: Virtual Threads After JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java

Sandeep Bharadwaj — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: The bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This article maps the failure modes that surface after virtual-thread adoption and gives a practical sequence backed by a public benchmark.

By Sandeep Bharadwaj

Article: Securing MCP in Production: Defense-in-Depth Beyond the Gateway

Nik Kale — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

This article presents a defense-in-depth approach for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments in production. It outlines four architectural control layers: safe execution, management infrastructure, outbound trust, and semantic integrity, arguing that production security requires enforcement beyond the gateway at the earliest trustworthy control points.

By Nik Kale

Article: The Hard-Stop Rule: From 3 HCM Monoliths to 120 Domain Microservices

Prashanth Pasham — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

A payroll and HR software team rebuilt three monoliths into over 120 smaller services over five years, with no dedicated migration budget. Every new feature was built as its own service instead of changing the old ones. The article covers the pull-based migration, the tools that made this possible, how costs were kept down, and the problems the team ran into along the way.

By Prashanth Pasham

Article: An Evolutionary Architecture Pattern for Managing AI’s Pace of Change

Joe Price, Branimir Đurek, Pavlos Migkiros, Trevor Dearham — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Traditional API gateways assume deterministic services and simple schemas - assumptions agentic AI breaks. Discover why enterprise engineering leaders are adopting AI Gateways as an evolutionary architecture seam. Centralize guardrails, model routing, agent identity, action policy, and semantic audit within a single control plane to prevent costly incidents while keeping core platforms stable.

By Joe Price, Branimir Đurek, Pavlos Migkiros, Trevor Dearham

Article: The Self-Building Agent: a LangChain4j Experiment

Kevin Dubois, Mario Fusco — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

The article discusses an experiment where a code assistant had to design an agentic system using LangChain4j documentation. The assistant created a coding framework capable of writing, testing, and debugging code autonomously. Results showed that two architectural patterns—supervisor and workflow—offered different trade-offs between flexibility and execution speed during debugging tasks.

By Kevin Dubois, Mario Fusco

Article: Multi-Agent AI for Production Security Operations: an A2A and MCP Architecture in a 5G Core

Willem Berroubache — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

The bottleneck in a mature SOC is rarely analyst triage; rather, it is the detection-engineering team's ability to keep the rule base aligned with a threat landscape that evolves faster than rules can be written. Learn how multi-agent system for production security operations has reduced mean times to detect and to respond by 40% and compressed the human work required by 12x.

By Willem Berroubache