Swapneswar Sundar Ray is a senior engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building enterprise-scale systems across financial services, insurance, and retail domains. His work focuses on distributed systems, API architecture, cloud-native platforms, and the practical adoption of AI in production environments. He has contributed to large-scale modernization initiatives involving microservices, API governance, and AI-assisted engineering frameworks designed to improve reliability and developer productivity. He actively writes about enterprise architecture, DevSecOps, and applied AI, with a strong interest in bridging real-world engineering challenges with scalable, production-ready solutions.

Rediscovering RocksDB – Embedded Storage in Cloud-Native Applications

Originally developed at Facebook and built on top of LevelDB, RocksDB is an embedded key-value store designed for fast local storage ...

Swapneswar Sundar Ray | June 30, 2026 | cloud native, cloud-native applications, cloud-native storage

Stop Treating Your Models Like Microservices

A few years ago, it felt like Kubernetes had become the universal answer to infrastructure problems. Teams wanted resiliency? Kubernetes. Faster deployments? Kubernetes. Scalability? Kubernetes again. Eventually, the industry stopped treating cloud-native ...

Swapneswar Sundar Ray | June 11, 2026 | AI infrastructure, cloud-native architecture, GPUs, kubernetes, observability

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Java Code Isn’t the Problem – The Container Is

Learn how integrating Docker Scout into Java CI pipelines shifts container security left, replacing manual reviews with automated gates to secure base images and dependencies ...