#software-engineering

I Built My First Microservice Architecture

“Microservices” was a word that I’ve already understood but never really tried to implement, independently deployable, loosely coupled, own…

A Font Rendering Bug Made Our Prices Look Free for Six Hours

The first support ticket just said “is this a mistake” with a screenshot attached, and the screenshot showed our checkout page with a…

Running WebContainer in the Browser Without Breaking Firebase or Razorpay

I broke Razorpay and Firebase with a single line of code.

The Deployment That Broke Production (And the Feature Flags That Saved It)

It was a Thursday afternoon. Our team had just shipped a revamped loan application flow — a fairly large change that touched form…

🍕 Stop Overcomplicating the Decorator Pattern: Learn It by Building Pizza

How I finally understood the Decorator Pattern by solving a real problem first

Inheritance vs. Composition

🦆 The Grand Zoo Taxonomy

The GEMM Built Cleanly. The Benchmark Was Still 24× Off.

Silent wrong answers, a broken tanh, and a build directory that broke CI for a reason no error message named.

Faure is “BORN”- The Second Baseline

When Mechanized Mathematics Redraws the Map

Harness is King

A better model showed up. The harness still won.

Agentic Engineering and Software Engineering: Why the Next Decade of Building Software Won’t Look…

A few months ago, I watched a junior developer describe a feature to an AI agent in plain English and, after some time, come back to a…

Project Log: Engineering an Over-the-Wing Regional Classic — The Fictional Do-328JET Inspired…

In the world of commercial 3D asset creation, flight simulation, and game production, finding production-ready airliner models comes with a…

Kod Ucuzladı, Karar Pahalandı

Yapay zekâ çağında geliştiriciliğin yeni ağırlık merkezi

It Still Takes a Software Engineer to Point the Gun

Why AI turned the boring fundamentals into the highest-leverage skill on your team, and why your crustiest legacy service benefits more…

Architects Don’t Know More — They See the Problem Earlier

Software Architect

Agentic Engineering vs Software Engineering: The New Frontier of Building Software

How autonomous AI agents are rewriting the rules of development — and why engineering rigor matters more than ever

I Gave an AI One Goal. It Made My Code 62 Times Faster

The biggest improvement came from one structural insight. The most important failure came from trusting the benchmark too long.

Pylint Was Too Slow, So I Built Arid

I didn’t set out to write a duplicate-code checker.

Stop Blaming Your Prompts: Why Your Folder Structure is Breaking Your AI Workflow

I used to think my prompts were the problem. I’d ask an AI coding assistant to update a React component, and it would spit out completely…

Machine First (3): The First Machines That Could Read

Part three of a series for everyone — about how the world stores what it knows, and what changes now that machines have started reading it

From a Machine Learning Portfolio to a Search Intelligence System: Engineering a Reproducible AI…

An engineering case study of machine learning, information retrieval, Streamlit productization, evaluation, repository intelligence, and…

One Course, Many Cohorts: Designing Batch-Scoped Content for an LMS

How I decided what should stay shared, what each live batch should own, and how those boundaries shaped the data model.

The Software Engineer’s Playbook: How to Land a High-Paying MNC Job

Getting hired at a top MNC (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and similar) isn’t about luck. It’s about aligning your skills…

Why Your Blue-Green Deployment Still Causes Downtime

Blue-green removes one class of outage and quietly creates another. Here are the four failure modes that bite during cutover, and the…

AI Tools Will Keep Changing. Project Intelligence Should Stay.

There is something unusual happening in software development.

Merge Conflicts Explained — Why They Happen and How Great Teams Prevent Them

Merge conflicts aren’t a Git problem — they’re a collaboration problem. Learn why conflicts occur, what they reveal about your engineering…

Beyond the Prompt: 7 Counter-Intuitive Realities of the 2026 Agentic Era

Introduction: The “Driver” Delusion

Litestar vs FastAPI: Which Framework Will Lead in 2027?

The Python API battle is no longer about speed it’s about architecture, developer experience, and operational cost.

Muse Glimmer Puts a 30B Multimodal Agent on One Workstation. Ownership Is the Real Upgrade

Meta’s release makes capable local agents easier to test on hardware a developer can control, but the decision still depends on memory fit…

How I Took a Legacy Production System Live on Node 20 and MongoDB 6: What Actually Happened (Part…

The preparation, the cutover night, the first day live, and why we didn’t roll back. Part 1 — Node 6 to 20 · Part 2 — MongoDB 3.4 to 6 ·…

Nvidia Just Killed Claude and Codex. Except the Benchmarks Say Otherwise.

Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra has been circulating online with a simple pitch attached: a free, open-weight model good enough to replace Claude…

The AI Could Analyze the Sprint. It Wasn’t Allowed to Touch It.

Five days, a live deployment, and one deliberate restriction that turned out to be the actual lesson.

If Agile Had Never Been Invented, We Would Have Invented It Again

Originally published by Kth Connection™ — exploring the hidden connections between technology, mathematics, business, artificial…

Building Knowledge Vault : From RAG Implementation to Retrieval Engineering

What a controlled retrieval experiments revealed about ranking, evidence, latency, and failure modes.

What Is Agentic SDLC?

How AI agents are changing the development lifecycle

7 New Agent Skills Repos That Just Blew Up on GitHub

And What They Actually Do

AI Agent Software Engineering using Codex, ChatGPT and Specifications Driven Development

Note to Readers: This article was generated using ChatGPT based on my specific instructions. I have worked with ChatGPT for the past year…

The Five Questions to Pick a Database: A Decision Tree for SQL, NoSQL, Cache, and Search

How to choose a database by the questions you ask your data — a decision tree that starts at Postgres and makes every exit earn its visa.

pgvector is All You Need: Replacing Expensive Vector DBs in Spring Boot

Dedicated vector databases are overpriced and introduce unnecessary network latency. Here is how to implement Retrieval-Augmented…

Your Team Is Shipping More Code Than Ever. Here's Why Your Incident Rate Is Also Up.

AI Coding Tools Gave Your Team 66% More Output.They Also Tripled Your Incident Rate.Here Is the Data Nobody Is Showing Engineering Leaders.

I Didn’t Leave Software Engineering Behind. I Found the Layer Beneath It.

Four years after working as an IP Engineer, I returned to networking — this time with years of software engineering behind me. It changed…

Your AI agent said “done.” What would prove it?

AI-assisted disclosure: I used AI tools to help edit this article and the open-source project it describes. The architecture, tests…

Beyond standard LLMs: Why Spatial AI is the Missing Piece in Space Exploration

Introduction: The Limits of Text and Pixels in the Cosmos

The API Scaled. The Database Didn’t: A Connection Budget Failure

Code: the complete Docker experiment, API, load generator, sanity test, and raw results are available in…

Andrew Ng and Spec-Driven Development: What His 2023–2026 Course Catalog Actually Changed

Andrew Ng’s own 2023–2026 course catalog documents a shift from prompt engineering to spec-driven development. Here is the dated evidence…

Everyone Laughs at COBOL — Until the Banking System Freezes

Cracking the LLD Interview: Designing a Rate Limiter with Domain-Driven Design

Most aggregates remember everything. This one forgets on purpose — and that forgetting IS the algorithm.

Bridging the Gap: How NaturalONE Revitalizes Legacy Development

Embracing the future of coding without leaving the past behind.

Band Saw Machine Manufacturer in India: Enhancing Precision and Productivity in Modern…

The Importance of Band Saw Machines in Modern Manufacturing Industries

Stop Building AI Demos. Build These 18 Production AI Systems Instead.

Everyone has an AI chatbot. Everyone has a RAG demo. Everyone has a “build an AI app in 10 minutes” tutorial. Very few people have actually…

5 SRE Interview Questions I Got Wrong and What I’d Say Now

If you’re an SRE, or planning to become one, do yourself a favor and read this article.