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Core Java
SQLite in 2026: Why Serious Apps Are Choosing It Over Postgres
For two decades, SQLite was the database you used in tests, mobile apps, and quick prototypes — and then swapped…
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Software Development
Durable Execution: What Temporal and Conductor Are Solving That Queues Can’t
Message queues have served us well for two decades. But as distributed systems grow more complex — and as AI…
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Core Java
Spec-Driven Development with AI: Write the Spec First, Then Prompt the Implementation
Vibe coding gets a feature built. Spec-driven development gets a system built correctly. The difference is whether you hand an…
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Core Java
Rust in the Enterprise: A Java Team’s Honest Assessment After 18 Months of Production Use
We are a Java shop. Have been for twelve years. We know Spring Boot, we know how to tune G1GC,…
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Core Java
Go 1.24 vs Java 25 for Microservices: An Updated Honest Benchmark in 2026
Most Go vs Java comparisons you find online predate virtual threads, generational ZGC, and Go’s Swiss Tables. This is the…
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Software Development
Senior Developer to Tech Lead: The Skills That Actually Transfer(And the Ones That Don’t)
Most career advice on this transition is either too vague to be useful or too comfortable to be honest. This…
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Software Development
Why I Stopped Using Microservices(And What I Replaced Them With)
I spent four years as a true believer. I gave conference talks. I drew the boxes and arrows on whiteboards.…
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Core Java
Virtual Threads Two Years In: Production War Stories, the Pinning Edge Cases, and What JDK 25 Fixed
Java 21 shipped virtual threads in September 2023. Two-plus years of production data later, the picture is more nuanced than…
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Software Development
The Economics of Technical Debt: Why Teams Rationally Choose to Accumulate It
Telling engineers to “just refactor it” is a bit like telling a country to “just pay off its national debt.”…
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