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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...
Java’s Growing Graveyard: The Old APIs Being Buried—and What Replaced Them
The Java “tomb” is filling up. Here’s what’s being buried—and what you should use instead.
How to Accidentally Build a Programming Language While Cleaning Redis
A “simple” Redis cleanup task evolved into a full rule engine. Configurable JSON rules grew to support logic, recursion, traversal...
The AI-Everywhere Architecture: Building Services That Collaborate With LLMs
Building AI-Everywhere Architecture requires moving beyond simple API calls to a robust, layered system. The core design involves...
Code Review Anti-Patterns: How to Stop Nitpicking Syntax and Start Improving Arc...
Code reviews are expensive. If your team is spending valuable senior engineering hours arguing about semicolon placement or variab...
Rule Engine + LLM Hybrid Architectures for Safer Code Generation
AI-generated code is fast but notoriously unreliable, prone to hallucinations and security risks. This article proposes a hybrid a...
