Exploring the shift from prompt engineering to context engineering in AI systems, understanding context rot, and why managing context is becoming more critical than crafting prompts.

Learn how Java’s StampedLock enables near lock-free reads with optimistic locking, why it’s useful for virtual threads and read-heavy workloads, and how to use it safely.

Learn how we scaled PostgreSQL to handle millions of inserts per hour using application-level sharding with Spring Boot, combining table partitioning and host-level sharding for robust performance.