Architecture

Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Split Voice Agents in Two

Smallest.ai closed a $13 million Series A round this week. The capital brings their total funding to $21 million since they launched late in 2024. But…

5 Claude Code Prompts That Stop Small Changes From Breaking Your Project

_Claude Code can build quickly, but speed becomes a problem when it starts making decisions before it understands the project. A small request can sud…

How to Deploy a Secure Hub-and-Spoke Cluster Across Proxmox LXC

If you are running multiple self-hosted services on a single Proxmox node, leaving them on a default flat network ( vmbr0 ) is a massive security vuln…

Designing Cloud Systems That Accept Temporary Confusion to Handle Massive Load

When thousands of field workers badge into active construction sites at seven in the morning, traditional cloud database designs hit a hard performanc…

How to Evaluate an AI Video Generator Without Wasting Credits: A Repeatable Test Harness

Most AI video demos show the same thing: A polished final clip A prompt A claim that the result was generated in seconds What they usually do not show…

Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career

It seems that becoming a "Design Engineer" is the best way to ensure that you'll never be able to retire and you'll be stuck working forever. The job …

Next.js vs WordPress for SEO: an honest decision guide

Originally published at intentioninfoservice.com . The short version: both Next.js and WordPress can rank at the top of Google. SEO is won by what you…

Magento 2 Customer Data Sections & localStorage Performance Optimization

Magento 2 Customer Data Sections & localStorage Performance Optimization Every Magento 2 storefront uses customer data sections — the mechanism be…

Padel Flow

Project Name PadelFlow Team Members Alfin Hafiz Problem Statement Organizing Americano and Mexicano padel tournaments is manual and error-prone. Organ…

Sole developer on a national SSO platform for six months, with Claude writing most of the code

Solution architect, 17 years in. From roughly March 2026 to July 2026 I was the only hands-on developer on the identity and single-sign-on layer for a…

Our dev labs open-sourced a local Python middleware framework that intercepts, repairs, and stabilizes malformed AI JSON data streams within local in-memory arrays. Clocking a 0.0122ms runtime latency under 10k parallel asynchronous loads.

Optimizing LLM Stream Ingestion: Reconstructing Truncated JSON Payloads in 0.0122ms Kylik Daniels Kylik Daniels Kylik Daniels Follow Aug 1 Optimizing …

Optimizing LLM Stream Ingestion: Reconstructing Truncated JSON Payloads in 0.0122ms

Every engineering team deploying production-grade LLM agents or RAG pipelines faces the exact same architectural bottleneck: truncated network data st…

Mastering Webhooks in SitecoreAI: The Complete Enterprise Integration Blueprint (2026 Edition)

SitecoreAI, the unified platform Sitecore launched at Symposium 2025 as the successor to XM Cloud, keeps the same event-driven integration model that …

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

From 100% CPU to 68%: How We Saved 1M Database Updates from Crashing

"Handling 1M database updates triggered by a dashboard button. We decoupled PHP's synchronous timeout using RabbitMQ and a batch-processing Go worker.…

🌊 From SAR Data to Actionable Maps: Building an Open-Source Flood Detection Pipeline with Python

Optical satellites are useless during floods because, well, it’s cloudy. Sentinel-1 SAR sees through rain and night, but its data is noisy, complex, a…

Day 167 of Learning MERN Stack

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 167 of my full-stack development journey! Today, I shifted focus to the backend of QuickChat , engineering…

Demystifying React Hooks: A Streamlined Guide for Developers

React Hooks have revolutionized how we write React components, offering a powerful way to manage state and side effects directly within functional com…

qm multiplayer AI agent tutorial: Cut Latency 20% with Node.js

This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone talks about multi-agent systems but few show you how to actually coordinate them without a…

JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization

JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization A practical guide to JWT validation — the process of checking a JSON Web Token's…

The Ghost in the Machine: Why AI Can Write Code, But Fails Miserably at Documenting ‘Institutional Debt’

Lately, my LinkedIn feed is flooded with posts saying AI is replacing Technical Writers. The logic? “If ChatGPT can code, it can easily write a README…

How to Turn Trip Photos and Metadata into a Self-Contained HTML Story

How to Turn Trip Photos and Metadata into a Self-Contained HTML Story — Agent Lab Journal Agent Lab Journal Guides Glossary Practical guide · beginner…

Sunday at 2, Thursday at 8

Mark and Thando met as teenagers at the United World College of the Adriatic, on a cliffside campus in Italy; a kid from Eswatini (Thando) and an isla…

Demystifying Next.js Caching Strategies ⚡

The Complexity of the App Router When Vercel introduced the Next.js App Router, it brought unprecedented power through React Server Components. Howeve…

Scaling Laravel: Mastering CQRS Architecture 🏗️

The Bottleneck of Traditional CRUD When you build a standard Laravel application, you typically follow the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) paradig…

The `featured` Column That Cost Us Money (and the Schema That Fixed It)

We run a US directory of special needs schools and ABA therapy providers. Providers pay to be promoted in the places where parents are searching. The …

Quality Isn't Accidental — Maker/Checker Separation and Automated Validation

The Core Argument : AI agent reliability isn't achieved by "making the agent smarter" — it's achieved by the simple engineering principle of separatin…

How Much Memory Does Your Agent Need? — A Practical Memory Store Selection Guide

The Pain : You search GitHub and find everyone using different memory stores — ChromaDB, PostgreSQL, plain Markdown files, "SQLite is good enough for …

Hello, Dev.to — I'm Building a Data Format Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Needs)

Hey 👋 I'm Liesliy, a developer working on tactile data infrastructure for robots. The Problem That Brought Me Here If you work in robotics, you've pro…

Building Real-Time AI Translation Assistance with FastAPI, Claude, and Server-Sent Events

How we added an on-demand translation help feature to our book translation platform, streaming LLM suggestions for tricky passages. At LectuLibre, our…