If you are curious about history and politics, you will notice that extremes often look powerful at the beginning. They move fast, talk with…
In modern software systems, speed and responsiveness are no longer just desirables, they are expectations. Users demand quick interfaces, developers build systems that handle…
The Singleton pattern is one of the most widely known and frequently used design patterns in software development. It is a creational pattern and…
Geo-Resilience in the Cloud: Active-Active vs Active-Passive Architectures
Building resilient systems is no longer a best practice. It as an expectation. Whether you’re running a small internal app or handling millions of…
Simple Patterns for Blue/Green Deployments on AWS ECS and Lambda
The basic idea of blue/green deployment is to run a new version beside the current one, send a small or full share of traffic…
React just took a quiet but deeply meaningful step forward. With the release of the React Compiler, we are entering a new phase of…
In the world of enterprise software, some names have stayed strong for decades. C# and Java are two of those names. They shaped the…
Practical Guide: Creating a Private ECR Repository and Using It in ECS/EKS
In modern cloud architectures, container images are the building blocks of your microservices, and having a private, secure, managed image registry is essential. Amazon…
JavaScript has come a long way since its creation. It started as a very basic language for making web pages interactive. It has become…
REST APIs are everywhere. From mobile apps to web platforms, they connect the front-end and back-end in a clean and standard way. In this…
In 2021, Oracle decided to monetise Java by changing its licensing policy after JDK 17. Previously, businesses had to pay for updates and support,…
Running DeepSeek R1 on Your Local Machine Offline: A Step-by-Step Guide
Over the past few months even weeks, DeepSeek has emerged as an unexpected guest in the AI market. It literally redefined the AI industry…
Concourse is a CI/CD tool created by a team at a company called Pivotal. Pivotal is a company known for building tools for software…
Advanced C# Tips: Use Conditional Attribute for Debugging Code
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Advanced C# Tips: Optimize Recursive Functions With Tail Recursion
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Advanced C# Tips: Beware of Micro-Optimizing at the Cost of Code Clarity
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Bedrock of Software – Part 4: Operating Systems Written in C
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How to Access AWS Secrets Manager Programmatically with C#, Java, Python and JavaScript
AWS Secrets Manager is a fully managed service that helps you easily store and retrieve credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data in a…
Building an AWS Lambda API in TypeScript Using SAM and Express
Serverless development has become one of the most effective ways to build small, event-driven applications without managing infrastructure. When combined with TypeScript, AWS SAM…
Bedrock of Software – Part 3: The Influence of C on Modern Programming Languages
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Advanced C# Tips:Prefer Lazy Initialization for Rarely Used Objects
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Advanced C# Tips: Using Array Segments Instead of Copying Arrays
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Introduction to Cloud Computing for Junior Developers and Testers
Cloud computing is a concept that every developer and tester should understand within software industry in 2020s. Whether you are just starting or changing…
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Bedrock of Software – Part 2: C and Unix – A Symbiotic Relationship
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Advanced C# Tips: Utilize ArrayPool for Frequent Array Allocations
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Advanced C# Tips: Consider Leveraging Bitwise Operations for Simple Calculations If Possible
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Advanced C# Tips: Use ‘in’ Parameter Modifier for Large Value Types
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Containerization became one of the recent trends in software development technology, because of its advantages with deployment and scalability and it is not for…
We often hear the terms “stateful” and “stateless”. Understanding these concepts has a critical importance since it is one of the most essential questions…
Azure Active Directory Login with React, with C# or Java Backend
Keeping things secure is the important part of any application. As entire internet going to cloud, Azure Active Directory (AD) is one of the…
Building a Basic Node.js App with TypeScript: A Practical Introduction
This is one of our practical posts. In this post, we will be writing a minimal server with Node.js and TypeScript. This is one…
Unlock Faster Performance: Advanced Caching Tactics for .NET Core
In software development, performance optimization is a crucial topic and one of the most effective ways to improve the performance is caching. However, caching…
Containerizing a .NET Application with Docker – Step by Step Guide
Docker is a powerful tool that allows developers to package applications into containers. These containers can run on any system that has Docker installed,…
D is an interesting language. For some reason, I have an emotional connection with this language and I believe that it is the subject…
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Whenever a major improvement happens in web technology, whenever a new framework or a language is introduced in the web development market, PHP’s death…
“Angular or React?” has been one of the most important questions in software development for the last decade. As a developer who had worked…
Remote Caching in Scaled-Out Cloud Applications: A Case Study with Redis, C# and Python
A few weeks ago, we were discussing a problem with my team mates and a colleague raised a question about a very basic distributed…
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to create real-time web applications using SignalR and React. If you have already gone through that,…
Architectural Design Patterns 8 – Serverless (Function as a Service – FaaS)
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For developers of my generation, C++ was the go-to language. It was everywhere, especially when you needed to write code that is fast, efficient…
Today, I want to talk about a new generation language which gains ground among developers. Go also popularly known as Golang, an open-source programming…
Recently, I had the opportunity to work on a project where React and SignalR were integrated. This experience was quite insightful, and I am…
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There’s no shortage of tools and technologies to make developers’ lives easier In the world of cloud computing, and one such offering comes from…
Even though my purpose is publishing ever green content in this blog, it is not easy to write about such a broader topic. Due…
Architectural Design Patterns 6 – Service-Oriented Architecture
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Two-way data binding is one of the most distinctive features of Angular but what does it require, and what are the benefits and drawbacks…
As web-based applications become more sophisticated, frontend and backend lines gets blur. One such example of this change is NextJS. NextJS is a framework…
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The Cheapest Way to Host a Static Website on AWS (S3 + CloudFront + Route 53 + HTTPS)
When you want to publish a simple static site lets say a blog, portfolio, documentation page or landing page, you often don’t need a…
Every developer knows that the software engineering isn’t just about writing code. It’s about creating efficient, maintainable, and scalable systems. A critical part of…
MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database, which means it doesn’t use tables like traditional databases. Instead, it saves data as ‘documents’, which are like…
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As businesses grow, so does their data. A big amount of data can slow down your SQL Server if you don’t manage it right….
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Azure Blob Storage is one of Microsoft Azure’s storage solutions. Think of it as a massive cupboard in the cloud where you can keep…
Architectural Design Patterns 2 – Model-View-Controller (MVC)
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Architectural Design Patterns 1 – Layered (or Tiered) Pattern
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