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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Will Media Over Quic Replace WebRTC? (1/30/2026)

JAR vs API Integration: Architectural Trade-Offs in Enterprise Healthcare Platfo...

Integrating Java and .NET components is a common requirement in enterprise platforms, especially within regulated domains such as...

An Architectural Pattern for Running Java Components Inside .NET 8

This article explains a pragmatic architectural pattern for integrating Java components into .NET 8 systems using runnable JARs, o...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Enter the Proof of Usefulness (PoU) Hackathon...

Contract-First APIs: How OpenAPI Becomes Your Single Source of Truth

Learn how to auto-generate production-ready REST APIs and type-safe SDKs from OpenAPI specs using Maven and OpenAPI Generator, ens...

How to Make Your Legacy Exception-Throwing Code Compatible With Lambdas

Java 8 brought lambdas after the "checked exceptions are great" trend. None of the functional interface methods accepts a checked...

The Elephant in the Room: Why This AST Translation Must Be Code-Generated

Translate a TypeScript compiler AST (via protobuf/gRPC) into your own generalized model. Learn visitor-based traversal, node-to-no...

Architecting Resilient and Scalable Systems with Java, Kafka and AWS: A Case Stu...

Kafka is a communication backbone for the microservices architecture. Java Kafka API and Spring integration allow application deve...

Comments, Naming, and Abstractions in the AI Era

AI hasn't killed "Clean Code," but it has changed the audience. You are no longer just writing code for human maintainers; you are...

System Design in the Age of AI: What Still Requires Human Judgment

AI is a powerful accelerator for writing code and optimizing queries, but it lacks the contextual understanding to make high-stake...

How to Structure Dagger Components So Your Build System Doesn’t Hate You

An architecture for Dagger that scales well to large codebases. Provided as a series of simple rules that humans and agents can fo...

Prompt Engineering for Architects: Using LLMs to Validate System Design Constrai...

Most developers use LLMs as a "Junior Developer" to write boilerplate. The real 10x leverage comes from using LLMs as a "Hostile P...