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Development

How to Build and Deploy a Production-Ready WhatsApp Bot with FastAPI, Evolution API, Docker, EasyPanel, and GCP

WhatsApp bots are widely used for customer support, automated replies, notifications, and internal tools. Instead of relying on expensive third-party...

Raju Manoj - freecodecamp

How to Use Different Container Runtimes: Docker, Podman, and Containerd Explained

If you’re a developer working with containers, chances are Docker is your go-to tool. But did you know that there's a whole ecosystem of container runtimes...

Destiny Erhabor - freecodecamp

UX

Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks

What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo breaks down the UX and design...

Victor Ayomipo - smashingmagazine

Design

How to Optimize Django REST APIs for Performance: Profiling, Caching, and Scaling.

Performance problems in APIs rarely start as performance problems. They usually start as small design decisions that worked perfectly when the application had...

Mari - freecodecamp

Other

The three paths AI could take from here - Shawn Wang SWYX interview [Podcast #208]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He's a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space podcast focused on...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Develop AI Agents Using LangGraph: A Practical Guide

AI agents are all the rage these days. They’re like traditional chatbots, but they have the ability to utilize a plethora of tools in the background. They can...

Manoj Aggarwal - freecodecamp

Product-Led Research: A Practical Guide for R&D Leaders [Full Book]

Your team needs to solve a problem, and there's no clear solution path. Multiple approaches might work, but you're not sure which. Success isn't guaranteed....

Omer Rosenbaum - freecodecamp

How to Elevate Your Database Game: Supercharging Query Performance with Postgres FDW

Foreign data wrappers (FDWs) make remote Postgres tables feel local. That convenience is exactly why FDW performance surprises are so common. A query that...

Hamdaan Ali - freecodecamp

Computer Networking Fundamentals

How does the Internet really work? For many technical jobs it is important to understand computer networking. We just posted a massive 12-hour course that...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Implement the Observer Pattern in Python

Have you ever wondered how YouTube notifies you when your favorite channel uploads a new video? Or how your email client alerts you when new messages arrive?...

Bala Priya C - freecodecamp

How to Use AlphaEarth for Similarity Search in Google Earth Engine

Embeddings have transformed how we search text, images, and code. Instead of matching keywords, you compare vectors, which are numerical representations that...

Pablo Rios - freecodecamp