Prompt Caching, Batches API, and Model Routing to Cut LLM Costs
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Day 151 of Leaning MERN Stack
Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 151 of my full-stack programming track! Today, I shifted gears from the backend persistence schemas straig…
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AI app builders crossed a line in the last year. They went from generating throwaway demos to scaffolding apps people actually deploy and charge money…
Crafting Client Sites Without the Chaos: A Dev's Guide to Modern Workflows
Managing client web development is heavily reliant on choosing the right architecture, managing technical expectations, and maintaining system integri…
Hey DEV Community! I'm CYBE
Hey everyone! I’ve been lurking around the DEV community for a while reading some incredible insights, so I figured it’s finally time to step out of t…
EzLang - a systems language aiming to make native software easier to write
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Microservices vs. Monolithic Architecture: What Should Your Full-Stack Development Partner Build?
A founder asked me last year to review the architecture his agency had pitched. Eleven services. A message queue. A service mesh. The product was a bo…
Building a World Cup Bracket Picker with AWS Blocks
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EzLang - a small systems language I built in a month with AI
Repo: https://github.com/ZYF93/EzLang I spent the last month building a small programming language called EzLang. It is an expression-oriented systems…
Lessons Learned Building POS Lite: From Idea to Full Stack Application
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Seeking Advice: Best Practices for SaaS Development 🛠️
Hello Tech Community, I am a Frontend Developer currently planning my next project—a scalable SaaS application. While I am comfortable with the fronte…
25. Build Your Own API
BootCamp by Dr.Angela 1. Building Your Own APIs You can build your own APIs using frameworks like Node.js + Express. API Platforms RapidAPI : Marketpl…
The Teach-Stack for Building Web Platforms in the AI-Native Era
Tools like Claude Code and Codex have completely reshaped how software engineering is done. This new tooling allows for much faster development and it…
Stop Writing Boilerplate API Responses: Meet BaR-js
We've all been there: you’re building an endpoint, and for the hundredth time, you’re typing out res.status(200).json({ success: true, data: ... }) . …
Advice Needed: Best Way to Build a Hospital Medicine Tracking App as a Beginner
Hi Dev Community! I am a CS graduate. I want to build an industry-standard full-stack app for my portfolio on my own. Recently, I have learned the bas…
Full-Stack with Next.js — From React Dev to Full-Stack Engineer
Read Time: ~15 minutes | The bridge from React UI library to production full-stack framework Prerequisites : React fundamentals, hooks, state manageme…
Online School, Messy Billing, and the Proration Rabbit Hole
While designing the database and Product Requirements Document (PRD) for an online school project, I ran into a problem I was not expecting. The schoo…
Full Stack Developer Portfolio Lessons: What I Learned Building 10+ Projects
I applied for a role at a mid-sized SaaS company about two years into my career. Strong company, interesting problem, good pay. I sent my application,…
I Built a Delhi Metro Route Planner In React with GSAP
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Is Claude API Worth $3/1M Tokens Over Self-Hosted Llama?
Originally published on NextFuture In May 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per million input tokens with no seat fees — and a self-hosted Llama 3.2…
Day 1 Python Learning 🐍
** Today I Started learning python programming language. I learned some basic concepts about python and terminal commands..** ** Python is a Interpret…
Notification System Design: The Question I Almost Missed
How hard can it be? I work at a property management SaaS company. Landlords use the platform to manage their properties, collect rent, track maintenan…
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How I built a Social Recipe Extractor that turns short-form video links into structured recipes
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Day 1 Learning: Course Roadmap, GitLab & Linux Basics
📚 Course Roadmap Frontend order: HTML → Structure of webpages CSS → Styling webpages JavaScript → Making webpages interactive React → Building real we…
Job Post: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Full-Stack Software Engineer Location: Full-time, In-Person, On-Site in Chattanooga, TN (Relocation Available / Flexible for Travel) Compensation: $10…
FINANCE PRO: PAYTRACK
One unexpected challenge while building PayTrack this week: The backend suddenly stopped communicating with Supabase even though the application code …