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Design

Learn How to Design Software Systems Like a Senior Engineer in Our New Course

System design is one of the most important skills for software engineers today. Whether you're applying for senior or staff-level positions or just looking to...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Security

Secure by Design: How to Engineer Security into Architecture Before Writing Any Code

There's a conversation that happens in most engineering teams,maybe usually too late. Think of this, a feature ships to production. A security review happens...

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole - freecodecamp

Other

The Anatomy of an AI Data Center

Artificial intelligence models like GPT-4 and Claude require massive, highly complex physical infrastructure. We just published a new full-length course on...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Build Ephemeral PR Preview Environments on GKE with GitHub Actions, Ingress, and Automatic TLS

Every team that ships software eventually builds a staging environment. And every team that builds a staging environment eventually discovers the same...

Amina Lawal - freecodecamp

How to Give an AI Agent Safe Access to an Internal API with MCP

Our on-call team keeps a small internal notes API. The web app in front of it shows who's holding the pager, which days are frozen for deploys, and where the...

Harish Gaggar - freecodecamp

How to Build Disaster Simulations on a Real Map: Animated Canvas Layers and Collapsing 3D Buildings with Mapbox GL JS and Three.js

At some point, a map project needs more than markers and polygons. You want something to happen on the map: water moving up a street, smoke drifting with the...

Alex Oliinyk - freecodecamp

How to Stop an AI Agent from Inventing Nigerian Postcodes

On 1 October 2026, Nigeria's postcode changed from six digits to an 11-character code that identifies a single building, such as EK-01-A03-FK-01. Language...

Kayode Adeniyi - freecodecamp

How to Keep a File for Minutes, Not Years, on Cloud Run

A print job, a one-time download, or a support attachment typically only needs to exist until someone finishes with it. But most backends still store it like...

Abhinay Gokul - freecodecamp

Is Your Organization Messing Up AI Adoption?

What can digital transformation teach us about AI adoption? Paul Boag revisits his book Digital Adaptation to show how lessons from the past can help organizations navigate the...

Paul Boag - smashingmagazine