2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (468+ words) When I first heard the term backtracking, it sounded like a complicated algorithm reserved for computer scientists. After spending the last couple of weeks learning it and implementing it in a Tetris Optimizer project, I realized something surprising: Backtracking is…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago  (17+ words) 7 Unconventional (But Surprisingly Effective) Ways to Get Better at Coding... Tagged with career, learning, productivity, programming....

9+ hour, 38+ min ago  (831+ words) Building microservices in Go is powerful, but it's rarely simple. You end up wiring together a router, a logger, a metrics exporter, a tracer, database drivers, a Pub/Sub client, and health checks — before you've written a single line of…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (242+ words) C is still an influential language and most high level modern languages have been inspired by c. A preprocessor is a program that runs before the actual compiler. It processes special instructions that begin with #. Think of it as a helper…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (447+ words) JWT authentication is one of those things that looks simple until you see the CVEs. Algorithm confusion, weak secrets, missing expiry — most JWT vulnerabilities aren't exotic. They come from implementation shortcuts that seemed harmless at the time. This article covers…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (229+ words) The web has changed. Applications are no longer simple HTTP servers. Today we build real-time dashboards, AI-powered services, multiplayer systems, APIs, microservices, and applications that need to handle thousands of connections with minimal overhead. But our frameworks are still mostly…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (567+ words) Type definitions can make our life easier when creating behaviors in Erlang, it's not mandatory though. A way to start the pipeline is required, two functions will be created for that, run/2 and run/3. Those functions will run the pipeline…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (227+ words) When deploying applications to Kubernetes, it's important to ensure they have only the permissions they actually need. This is where ServiceAccounts and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) come into play. In our case, the ServiceAccount is required for the Agentic CLI…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (18+ words) This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built I've been... Tagged with devchallenge, weekendchallenge....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (714+ words) For a full quarter, our feature velocity significantly dropped after we re-implemented a Go service using Rust. We are a small startup. Each engineer is important, and each week is even more important. Our backend was built using Go, which…...