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Development

How to Manage Blue-Green Deployments on AWS ECS with Database Migrations: Complete Implementation Guide

Blue-green deployments are celebrated for enabling zero-downtime releases and instant rollbacks. You deploy your new version (green) alongside the current one...

Destiny Erhabor - freecodecamp

How to Use the tailwind-sidebar NPM Package in Your React and Next.js Apps

These days, developers are increasingly preferring utility-first CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS to help them build fast, scalable, and highly customizable...

Hitesh Chauhan - freecodecamp

UX

UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026

How to shape your career path for 2026, with decision trees for designers and a UX skills self-assessment matrix. The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. Brought...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

UI

Why You Should Stop Managing Kafka Manually – A Guide to Kafka UI and Cruise Control

Over 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Apache Kafka. That's not surprising, as Kafka has revolutionized how we build real-time data pipelines and streaming...

Ramesh Sinha - freecodecamp

Design

Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour

CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/) shares practical techniques...

Andy Clarke - smashingmagazine

Other

How to Create Boxplots and Model Data in R Using ggplot2

In this tutorial, you’ll walk through a complete data analysis project using the HR Analytics dataset by Saad Haroon on Kaggle. You’ll start by loading and...

Tiffany Mojo Omondi - freecodecamp

Build Your Own Kubernetes Operators with Go and Kubebuilder

We just posted a Kubernetes Operator course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel. You will learn how to extend Kubernetes by building your own custom...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Choose the Best GPU for Your AI Workloads

Choosing a GPU for your AI workload shouldn't be complicated, but it often feels that way. You're weighing specs you don't fully understand, comparing prices...

Daniel Adeboye - freecodecamp

Inside Cal Hacks 2025 – 36 Hours at the World's Largest Collegiate Hackathon

What happens when you lock over 2,500 ambitious developers in a massive science museum for an entire weekend? We posted a documentary on the freeCodeCamp.org...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Benchmark Embedding Models On Your Own Data

Finding the right embedding model for your specific data can often feel like guesswork, but it doesn't have to be. While generic benchmarks provide a...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How Relational Database Constraints Work and Why They're Important

Databases are a crucial tool because they store the data that power our day-to-day lives. Databases are designed to match the real world as much as possible,...

Zubair Idris Aweda - freecodecamp

How to Build a Payroll System with Express and Monnify Using Background Jobs

Processing payroll payments is an important operation for any business. When you need to pay employees simultaneously, you can't afford to have your server...

David Aniebo - freecodecamp