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Dev.to · Tyson Cung
1d ago
Your Dashboard Numbers Are Wrong — And Your Team Is Making Decisions Based on Them
I've sat in too many meetings where someone points at a number on a dashboard and says "look, it's...
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1d ago
AWS vs Azure vs GCP — Which Cloud Should You Learn in 2026?
This is the cloud question that comes up in every bootcamp, every career change conversation, and...
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1d ago
Why Most APIs Fail — 3 Mistakes That Kill Developer Experience
I've integrated hundreds of APIs over the years. Some were a pleasure. Most were a chore. A handful...
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1w ago
RAG vs Fine-Tuning — I've Used Both in Production, Here's What Actually Matters
Every AI team hits this fork in the road: do we bolt on RAG, or fine-tune the model? I've shipped...
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1w ago
Event Sourcing Broke My Brain — Then Fixed My Architecture
I spent three years building CRUD apps before someone showed me event sourcing. My first...
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1w ago
Bolt vs Lovable vs v0 — I Built the Same App With All Three
I gave all three AI app builders the same prompt: build a task management dashboard with user...
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1w ago
Why Deleting Code Is the Most Productive Thing You'll Do This Week
I deleted 4,000 lines of code last Tuesday. It was the most productive day I've had in...
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1w ago
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini — I Use All Three Daily. Here's My Honest Take.
I've been using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini daily for over a year. Not benchmarks. Not vibes...
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1w ago
OAuth Isn't Magic — Here's What Actually Happens When You Click 'Sign In with Google'
You've clicked "Sign In with Google" a thousand times. You've probably built login flows that...
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1w ago
The Rewrite Trap: Why Starting Over Kills More Projects Than Technical Debt
Every developer has stared at a codebase and thought: "burn it all down." The spaghetti...
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1w ago
AI Agents Are 2026's Biggest Hype Bubble — And I'm Tired of Pretending Otherwise
Every pitch deck I've seen this year includes the phrase "AI agent." Every startup is...
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1w ago
Feature Flags Aren't Optional — They're How Grown-Ups Ship Software
I watched a team lose an entire weekend rolling back a bad deployment last month. Three...
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1w ago
Your Product Roadmap Broke the Moment You Published It
Every quarter, product teams go through the same ritual. They spend two weeks debating priorities,...
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1w ago
The 10x Engineer Died in 1968 — We Just Didn't Bury the Corpse
The 10x engineer idea comes from a 1968 study by Sackman, Erikson, and Grant. They sat individual...
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1w ago
Git Isn't Version Control — It's a Graph Database
Most developers use Git daily without knowing what it actually is under the hood. They memorize...
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1w ago
Why 80% of Software Features Are Never Used (And How to Stop Building Them)
I've spent 15 years shipping software. Roughly half the features I helped build were a waste of time....
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1w ago
Why the Best Engineers Write "Ugly" Code
The most productive engineer I ever worked with wrote code that would make Clean Code purists...
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1w ago
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Writing Code (And Why Nobody Talks About It)
Frustration. Flow state. Imposter syndrome. Existential dread. The smug satisfaction of closing 12...
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1w ago
Startup vs Corporate — What Nobody Tells You Before You Pick
I've worked at a 5-person startup where I deployed to production on day one. I've also worked at a...
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1w ago
How DNS Actually Works — The Internet's Invisible Backbone
You type "google.com" into your browser and a webpage appears. Somewhere between your keystrokes and...
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1w ago
Microservices vs Monolith: After 15 Years, Here's What Actually Matters
I've built both. Multiple times. At startups with 3 engineers and at companies with 300. The internet...
Dev.to · Tyson Cung
2w ago
Database Indexing Explained: What's Actually Happening Under the Hood
Your query is slow. You've checked the code, optimized the ORM, maybe even added caching. But the...
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2w ago
Platform Engineering Explained: Why 80% of DevOps Teams Are Evolving in 2026
Why are 80% of engineering organisations abandoning traditional DevOps for Platform Engineering? The...
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2w ago
The Identity Trap That Keeps Senior Devs From Reaching Staff
I spent years trying to become the best coder on my team. And it worked — right up until it...
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