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Development

From Manufacturing to Microservices: Universal Lessons About Reliability

Software engineers often think reliability is a modern challenge. We discuss uptime, distributed systems, observability, and fault tolerance as if they belong...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

How to Manage Secrets Securely with Azure Key Vault in Node.js

Last year a client called me about exactly this. Someone ran git log -p on a hunch and found a .env committed two years earlier, never caught. Database...

Zia Ullah - freecodecamp

How to Create Accessible Modals and Pop-ups Using HTML, CSS, and Minimal JavaScript

Creating pop-ups and modals on your site can be a complicated process. And it often requires a lot of boilerplate code to get started. But the real challenge...

jabo Landry - freecodecamp

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Redaction Tool Using JavaScript

PDF documents are frequently used to share invoices, contracts, reports, legal records, customer documents, financial statements, and internal business files....

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

How to Implement PayPal in a Microservice Architecture Using NestJS, gRPC, and Docker

In this tutorial, you'll build a production-ready PayPal payment service using NestJS microservices. Along the way, you'll learn how to isolate payment logic...

Md Tarikul Islam - freecodecamp

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered...

Victor Ayomipo - smashingmagazine

Design

The Observer Design Pattern Handbook: Event-Driven Architecture & Domain-Driven Design in Dart

Every application, at some point, has to deal with a fundamental challenge: something happens, and several other things need to react to it. A user logs in,...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

Mobile

How Neural Machine Translation Works: Build Your Own Translation App with React Native and QVAC

For the past 10 years, we've experienced a massive improvement in translation technologies. We went from robotic-like translations to systems that not only...

Jibril-M🍀 - freecodecamp

Other

How to Evaluate AI Agents with an LLM-as-a-Judge Harness in Python

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to evaluate a local AI agent with a simple, repeatable evaluation harness. The harness runs the agent against a set of...

Darsh Shah - freecodecamp

How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: A Complete Guide to Backstage, ArgoCD, and Crossplane

Every fast-growing engineering team eventually hits the same wall. A developer needs a new staging environment, so they file a ticket. The platform team...

Ayobami Adejumo - freecodecamp