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Building Intelligent Integration Flows: From Natural Language to Execution with Ballerina

Data Governance in the AI age

Give Your Agent a Second Brain (and a UI to Match)

5 Laws Of Workplace Bliss

Deploy Your Own VideoGen Model

TBA

In the age of AI: if it's not Accessible, it's not Acceptable

5 Mistakes Developers Make When Building Java APIs (and How to Fix Them)

Your Browser Has Trust Issues: Why Local Devices Break Modern Web Apps

From APIs to Agents: Enterprise AI using Java, Ollama & MCP

TBA

Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?

The Hidden ROI of Caching: Performance Optimization and MIPS Reduction in PBM Engineering

TBA

AI Governance in Financial Services: What Every Developer Should Know

Software Developer To CTO: AMA! (Ask Me Anything!)

Architecting AI in Angular: WebMCP, A2UI, and the Agent Experience

AI Memory Is Broken And How I Fixed It

TBA

When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking AI’s Hidden Connections with Graphs

Fixing Potholes And Broken Roads: Devs Can Troubleshoot the Network With Ops Too!

Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool

Building Rapid Web Applications with Laravel + Filament

Revolutionize Your Backend: Mastering Server Actions with Next.js and React

Develop Your First Mobile Game Easily with GameSalad

Build Failed Startups—Not Side Projects

Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild

From Side Project to Startup: Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Builders

Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems

From Dashboards to Data Products: A Shift in Thinking

Trust, But Verify: Human-in-the-Loop for Agents That Actually Matter

AI-Driven Supply Chain Security: Using AI-BOM to Detect Hidden Vulnerabilities

This Isn't The Matrix: Stop Letting Your AI Agents Run Wild

Beyond The Happy Path: Building a BDD Testing Strategy Across Microservices

Zero to Production: A Simple Technical Framework for Low-Cost Scalable Infrastructure

The node_modules Iceberg: Mysteries Below the Waterline

Unlocking CI Performance in the Age of Agentic Development

The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering

Stop Writing the Analysis Script: Let the Data Decide What to Look At

Why Your Bug Rate Isn’t a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake

How to Use Scaffolding to Make Your Coding Agents Less Dumb

Claude Skills: Automate the Boring Stuff

The Evolution of Divot: How Agents Earn Their Autonomy

Stop Prompting, Start Looping: Principles of Loop Engineering

Build your First MCP App

Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink

Utilising the JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Automated Frontend Lifecycle Management

Render Workshop

What Happens When the Music Starts? The Architecture of Browser Audio

Observability at 200mph: How being a coder makes you a better sim racer

Boost Developer Productivity with Buildpacks

Building AI Agents in TypeScript with Mastra

The Autonomous Pipeline: Using Agentic AI to Automate FCRA Compliance from API Spec to Production.

Secure Coding Meets Critical Infrastructure Defense in Water Systems

Thinking Architecturally

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TBA

Open Source Voice AI: From ChatGPT's Infrastructure to Your App

WTF, Rust for Web Development??

Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS

Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals

Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI

20 Years of Frontend Lessons: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter

On-Device AI in React Native: Private, Offline LLMs for Real Apps

React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model

Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything

Chaos to Control: Automating the Identity Life Cycle in the Cloud

Make Your Serverless Functions Do More with Durable Executions

Writing a Container Runtime in Go

Sociotechnical Platform Engineering

From Zero to AI Platform: Architecting a Multi-Cloud LLM Gateway for 200+ Developers

Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security

OOPs!... I Did it Again: When Good Objects Go Toxic

Agentic AI Systems Don't Fail at the Model Layer - They Fail in Production

Gating Cognition: How Modern AI Architectures Minimize Runtime Reasoning

Documentation in the Age of AI: Why Docs Are a Product

Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers

Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers

From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hilton’s First Agentic AI Travel Planner

Give Your SDK Superpowers: Building AI Tools for Your Developers with Skills and MCP

Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer to Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption

Gotta Feed the Beast - Data Engineering at Scale

AI for Java Developers

Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test — instrumenting LLM apps in production

From Guesswork to Governance: Bringing API Discipline to Data Streaming

Building Stelvio: An Open Source Journey to Deploy Python to AWS

Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management for Secure Federal Systems

Weights vs. Words in Fine-Tuning & Enhancing Agentic AI Workflows

Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations

Are MCP Servers Dead?

rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)

Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Advanced RAG Systems: Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Production

Launching a Product On a Shoestring Budget

From Requirements to Reality: How Solutions Architects Think, Build & Decide

The Series Finale Problem: What Happens When Your Brand Makes a Promise You Can't Keep

The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding

How to Test AI Features Before Your Users Do

The Devil Was Never in the Details: Code, AI, and the Rise of the Deep Generalist

The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse

When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications

Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI

Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil

Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends

The Claw: Minions of Toil

Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents

CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS

Counting exercise repetition using live camera video