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Swift Ternary Operator " Making Quick Decisions in One Line "
51+ min ago (359+ words) We've covered if, else if, else, and switch " all great ways to make decisions in Swift. But there's one more tool in the toolkit that's much more compact than all of them. It's called the ternary conditional operator, and at…...
Great Stack to Doesn't Work Bonus: Monolith vs Microservices: The 2026 Verdict
42+ min ago (469+ words) The debate that won't die, finally given an honest answer. Every year someone writes "microservices are dead" and someone else writes "monoliths don't scale." Both are wrong. Both are right. The answer has never been the architecture " it's the team....
The Anti-Corruption Layer: Protecting Your Domain from External APIs
52+ min ago (873+ words) There comes a point in almost every project when someone says, "We need to connect to API X." Everyone nods. It sounds simple enough. A few hours later, that API's response model has started appearing in controllers, business services, and tests....
Building Video Recommendations With Surreal DB Graph Traversal Queries
41+ min ago (705+ words) The root problem is that recommendation is not a relational problem pretending to be hard. It is a graph problem being forced through a relational engine. "Viewers who watched A also watched B" is a two-hop traversal: video " viewers " videos....
Using Additional Instructions to Handle Buying Intent in a Chatbot
44+ min ago (137+ words) While working on Fabio AI Chatbot, we were testing ways to customize responses without touching the main prompt architecture. Originally, the Additional Instructions field was simply meant to adjust chatbot behavior. But during testing, we noticed something interesting: It can…...
Database WAL Bloat: How to Overcome the Performance Trap?
41+ min ago (1514+ words) In this guide, we will delve deep into the fundamental causes of WAL bloat in Postgre SQL, its effects on performance, and most importantly, the concrete strategies you can implement to resolve this issue and prevent its recurrence. Based on…...
Day 7 of 100 Days of Click House: Understanding Merge Tree " The Engine Behind High-Performance Analytics
44+ min ago (592+ words) Modern organizations generate massive amounts of data every day. Whether it's application logs, user events, Io T metrics, or business transactions, the ability to analyze large datasets quickly has become a critical business requirement. This is where Click House" excels....
I built a self-hosted log search tool for my team
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (265+ words) Some time ago I adopted Quickwit at my company. For anyone who hasn't used it: Quickwit is a search engine that runs full-text search directly on object storage (S3 or anything S3-compatible). It decouples compute from storage, so you don't pay…...
Building AI agents with Vercel AI SDK
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (448+ words) The Vercel AI SDK treats agents as tool-calling loops: the model generates text or invokes tools, the SDK runs those tools, and the loop continues until the model answers or a stop condition fires. This post builds a support triage…...
Why Object-Oriented Programming Was Introduced - Objects and Classes
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (324+ words) In the previous article, we examined the importance of software design, and how all software engineering principles have been defined to address issues rather than creating more complexity. In this article, we will begin with one of the most significant…...