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Hands-on articles about development, architecture, and performance — written by people who actually ship code.

· AI/ML

My AI Workflow: Skills, Agents, and a Second Brain

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· Systems Programming

Building an Event Loop from Scratch in C

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· Compilers

LLVM Alloca in Loops: The Silent Stack Overflow

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· DevOps

Staging on a Homelab, Production in the Cloud: A Practical Architecture with Terraform and Ansible

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· Redis

Valkey/Redis Cluster: Hash Slots and the CROSSSLOT Problem

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· Compilers

How Compilers Work: From Kaleidoscope to LLVM

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· Security

Security 101: The CIA Triad and Why Every Dev Should Know It

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· AWS

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL: When Is It Worth Migrating from RDS

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· Kubernetes

Kubernetes Network Policies: Native vs Cilium

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· Algorithms

Understanding Algorithms: Binary Search, Big O and Quicksort

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· Cloud

Cloud Computing: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the XaaS Ecosystem

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· PostgreSQL

ACID, Partial Indexes and Advanced Patterns in PostgreSQL

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· PostgreSQL

How to Debug Queries in PostgreSQL

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· AI/ML

SDD - AI-Assisted Development

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· DevOps

Telegram as a Notification Channel for Your Systems

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· Design Patterns

Circuit Breaker - Protect Distributed Systems

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· DevOps

What is a Wildcard Certificate

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· AI/ML

What is cosine similarity and how it helps LLMs perform better

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