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September 29, 2025
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Frontend Development 🎹

Deep Copy vs Shallow Copy in JavaScript (1 minutes read)
JavaScript Immer

JavaScript’s shallow copy creates a new top‑level object but retains nested references, while a deep copy, achieved via structuredClone, cloneDeep, or Immer, recursively clones every layer, avoiding shared references and stale renders, though it’s costlier.

Why setState Doesn’t Cause Hydration Errors (1 minutes read)
React NextJS

Hydration warnings in React appear only when the first client render mismatches server‑generated HTML; subsequent setState updates are normal. Ensure the initial render is deterministic by avoiding browser‑only logic, using useEffect for updates, or disabling SSR, as in Next.js.

How to Automate Sitemap Generation in Next.js (6 minutes read)
NextJs Npm

Install next-sitemap via npm, create next-sitemap.config.js setting siteUrl and generateRobotsTxt. Hook this into a post-build script to output sitemaps and robots.txt to public/. The tool auto-indexes large sitemaps, supports transform, additionalPaths, APIs for dynamic routes, and robotsTxtOptions for custom policies.

Backend & APIs 🔧

Circuit Breaker Pattern: Finding the Light at the End of the Tunnel in High-Load Systems (4 minutes read)
CircuitBreaker Symfony

Article portrays Circuit Breaker for a Symfony 6.4 API gateway, Vue.js UI, and services using MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, with gateway, microservice, and client tiers, Kafka, ML thresholds, dashboards, graceful degradation, canary recovery, security throttling, memory logic.

A Quick Dive into Kubernetes Operators - Part 2 (2 minutes read)
Kubernetes kubebuilder cert-manager

This guide walks readers through building a Kubernetes operator with kubebuilder, from controller generation to reacting to cluster events and emitting state‑change events. It covers OCI image building, Deployment, CRUD of a Task resource, validation/mutation webhooks, and TLS via cert‑manager.

Further experiments with MCP rebuilt on gRPC: enforceable schemas and trust boundaries (4 minutes read)
gRPC protobuf mTLS

Geleda revisits Machine‑Powered‑Chat, reimagining it with gRPC to replace JSON payloads with protobuf tool descriptors, providing type safety, reflection‑derived types, protovalidate/CEL checks, TLS/mTLS security, and a GitHub demo of validated calls.

Unlocking O(1) Performance in Go Maps with Insights into Swissted Maps (9 minutes read)
Go Swissted Maps

Go map "map_noswiss" achieves O(1) performance through hashing, handling collisions with overflow buckets and incremental growth to maintain performance. A unique seed prevents security issues like hash-flooding attacks by generating distinct hashes for each entry.

AI in Society & Economy 🌍

Study Bud: AI-Powered Learning Companion (5 minutes read)
Heroku Django React

Study Bud is an AI‑powered learning companion for Heroku’s “Back to School,” employing a multi‑agent RAG with pgvector for sub‑100 ms semantic search, Django REST/React/Tailwind front‑end, delivering faster study plans, real‑time Q&A, and future collaborative extensions.

Generative AI & LLMs Revolutionize E2E Test Automation (3 minutes read)
FastAPI LangChain LLMs

An AI‑driven QA framework auto‑generates test cases, page‑object models, and edge scenarios via FastAPI‑orchestrated LangChain calls to LLMs; CV models refine visual locators, while retrieval‑augmented generation and NLP on logs deliver concise summaries, all open‑source on GitHub.

Ollama Web search
GraphQL Ollama Redis

Ollama introduces a web search API, granting real‑time data access via its platform. A free tier supports casual use, while developers may switch to higher rate limits in Ollama’s cloud plan for expanded capacity.

Browser & Platform 🌐

What is a Network Topology? (Explained Like You're Five
 But Cooler) (3 minutes read)
NetworkTopology GraphQL NodeJS

Network topology dictates device connections and data flow, shaping performance, cost, and fault tolerance. Five core styles—bus, star, ring, mesh, hybrid—balance simplicity, redundancy, and scalability; star dominates modern networks, while mesh suits high‑reliability systems.

Industry & Trends 📈

The Tyranny of Distance is Dead – How Teams are Winning with Async-First (3 minutes read)
AsyncFirst Notion Figma

Remote work has shifted to async‑first, letting Nairobi coders, Berlin designers, and São Paulo managers collaborate outside of 3 AM calls, replacing meetings with documentation, Loom videos, and tools like Notion and Figma, enhancing efficiency, inclusion, and trust in software engineering.

7 Best Practices for Reliable LLM Applications (4 minutes read)
LLM CI/CD IDE

The guide presents a six‑step framework for reliable LLM apps, integrating evaluation, observability, redundancy, prompt governance, output safety, and data hygiene. It supports automated and human testing, CI/CD, multi‑provider failover, semantic caching, IDE‑based prompt management, guardrails, and collaborative dashboards.

Software Development & Engineering đŸ’»

Test Driven Development: Bad Example (15 minutes read)
TDD KentBeck

The article critiques Kent Beck's 2003 TDD book, noting its narrow claims, unproven benefits, flawed examples, and confusing presentation, while acknowledging his disciplined practice; ultimately, weak examples and unrealistic assumptions curb its teaching value.

What is "good taste" in software engineering? (9 minutes read)
SoftwareEngineering BestPractices

Good taste in software engineering, unlike raw skill, hinges on selecting values such as speed, correctness, or resilience tailored to each project; it develops through varied problems, nuanced trade‑offs, learning from outcomes, and resisting rigid habits that could derail success.

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