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Dev.to · Alex Merced
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
How to Design Reliable Data Pipelines
Most pipeline failures aren't caused by bad code. They're caused by no architecture. A script that...

Dev.to · John Rooney
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Hybrid scraping: The architecture for the modern web
If you scrape the modern web, you probably know the pain of the JavaScript challenge. Before you can...

Dev.to · Francesco Portus
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
SmartOrder — Part 2: The Services Layer Architecture
In the previous article, I introduced SmartOrder as a modern microservices reference platform...

Dev.to · Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Hexagonal Architecture in Plain JavaScript: Why I Use Objects as Interfaces (And Validate Them at Startup)
How do you enforce contracts between layers in plain JavaScript? This is how I implemented hexagonal...

Dev.to · Ankit Anand ✨
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
OpenTelemetry - gRPC vs HTTP for Efficient Tracing
In the world of distributed systems and microservices, observability has become crucial for...

Dev.to · Ankit Anand ✨
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
OpenTelemetry vs. X-Ray - Choosing the Right Tracing Tool
Distributed tracing helps teams monitor and debug microservices applications by tracking requests as...

Dev.to · Alexandru Draghici
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Event-Driven Architecture pentru platformă auto în RO
Deep-dive: cum proiectezi o event-driven architecture pentru listări auto, dealeri verificați și leasing, cu outbox, idempotency și observability.

Dev.to · albert nahas
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
How to Maintain Visual Consistency Across Your App Icons
Learn how to maintain visual consistency in your app icons with stroke weights, grid systems, and style guides. Start designing cohesive icons today!
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Dev.to · Austin
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
28K TPS Single-Node Resource Scheduling Engine [Architecture Showcase]
⚠️ Disclaimer: This project was formerly a high-frequency routing and resource scheduling backbone...

Dev.to · Matheus das Mercês
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
AWS Lambda Durable Functions on Hexagonal Architecture: The Pattern You’ve Been Looking For
Yes, you read it right. When building serverless applications on AWS, one little thing seems to be...

Dev.to · Sepehr Mohseni
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Modern Laravel Mastery: Advanced Features, Clean Architecture, Testing & Blazing Performance in Laravel 12+
Laravel has evolved dramatically in recent years. Laravel 11 and 12 deliver a slimmer skeleton,...

Dev.to · krishnamurthy yarram
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Stop Using Thread.sleep(): Smart Polling for CloudWatch Log Validation in Java (AWS Test Automation)
While building automation frameworks for distributed systems, I ran into a common but frustrating...

Dev.to · Jacqueline Tresa
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
PopupKit vs OptinMonster vs OptiMonk: A Technical Comparison for Developers
Most popup comparisons focus on marketing claims. This one focuses on architecture, performance...

Dev.to · Youssef El Idrissi
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Design Patterns: Facade
(This Blog post is part of a collaborative work between Me and Mustapha El Idrissi, Consult his...

Dev.to · Jeremy mahuvava
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
The serverless lie: Why i refuse to default to next js
Now if you are a developer you have surely come across a little corner of the internet named "tech...

Dev.to · AnibalOS
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
I Got Tired of My AI Creating 8 Files for One Endpoint. So I Built a New Architecture.
Every time I asked an AI assistant to add a CRUD endpoint, it tried to create 6 to 8 files. Entity....

Dev.to · Ali Malik
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
AP Systems Explained: Stale Data Beats Dead Servers
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the CAP Theorem and distributed systems trade-offs. Read Part 1...

Dev.to · Titouan Despierres
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Optimizing Java AI Architectures for 2026: JDK 26, HTTP/3, and GitOps Control Planes
Optimizing Java AI Architectures for 2026: JDK 26, HTTP/3, and GitOps Control Planes As we...

Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Clean Architecture in .NET: Real-World Pros, Cons and Trade-offs
I have experience with Clean Architecture across multiple projects, both when creating new...

Dev.to · squareops
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Kubernetes Cost Optimization: The Hidden Cloud Leak Most Teams Ignore
Kubernetes was built for scalability. But for many engineering teams, it has quietly become one of...

Dev.to · Rafa Calderon
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
WASM Microservices: From Single Binaries to Composable Components
Traditional microservices pay a massive tax on serialization and network overhead. WASM microservices...

Dev.to · 💻 Arpad Kish 💻
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Jestr (2014): The Architecture of a Social App and the Power of PostgreSQL Views
When building a modern social media application, engineers are immediately confronted with two...

Dev.to · Emmimal P Alexander
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Master Monotonic Sequences in Python: 7 Methods, Edge Cases & Interview Tips
If you've ever needed to verify if a list of stock prices, sensor readings, or ML training losses is...

Dev.to · Doniyor Xujamov
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
How Small Projects Can Generate Revenue Faster Than Complex Systems
As engineers, we are naturally drawn to complexity. Scalability. Clean architecture. Future-proof...

Dev.to · kanaria007
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Chapter 4 — RML-3 (History World): Irreversible History, Forward-Only Correction
The Worlds of Distributed Systems — Chapter 4 “Can you really make it as-if-it-never-happened by...

Dev.to · Ruhul Amin Sujon
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
🚀 Laravel Developer হিসেবে Salary বাড়ানোর ৮টি Skill
1️⃣ System Design & Scalable Architecture Mid-level থেকে senior developer হওয়ার সবচেয়ে বড়...

Dev.to · Mohamed Saif Eldeen
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
How I Built a Serverless Postgres on EKS (and saved 90% vs RDS)
Introduction Everyone loves Serverless Postgres (Neon, Supabase, Aurora Serverless). It...

Dev.to · Eelco Los
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Cross-boundary communication between desktop and web
A practical architecture for desktop→SaaS migration with backwards compatibility, using message contracts across iframes, windows, and a WebView2 host.

Dev.to · Rostislav B
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Do We Even Need Modals?
Ever feel like the web could use some design police? No one enforcing consistency, no standards for...

Dev.to · MaxxMini
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Storing Financial Data in the Browser: An IndexedDB + Dexie.js Architecture Guide
Most budget apps store your financial data on someone else's server. I wanted mine to stay on my...

Dev.to · Daniel Vermillion
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
The 4-Layer Memory Architecture That Makes AI Agents Actually Useful Long-Term
The 4-Layer Memory Architecture That Makes AI Agents Actually Useful Long-Term Every AI...

Dev.to · Pavan Kumar Appannagari
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
The Doppelgänger Dilemma: Why Your Mobile Apps Look Alike but Act Like Strangers
Why iOS and Android apps drift in behavior over time — and how Kotlin Multiplatform enables consistency.

Dev.to · Suren Krmoian
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Redis in NestJS: The RedisX Solution You Didn't Know You Needed
Redis in NestJS: The RedisX Solution You Didn't Know You Needed Tired of wrangling with...

Dev.to · Onuh Chidera Theola
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
What Went Wrong in My Distributed Sensor System — And What It Taught Me
I'm a noob to distributed systems — and I learned that the hard way. Distributed architecture has...

Dev.to · Tetsuya Wakita
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Enforcing Clean Architecture on AI-Generated Kotlin with Custom Detekt Rules
How custom detekt rules, specialized AI agents, and specification-driven development keep Clean...

Dev.to · Muhammad Arslan
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Building Microservices with HazelJS and gRPC: A Complete Starter Guide
A comprehensive guide to building a gRPC server and gRPC client using HazelJS and @hazeljs/grpc. This...

Dev.to · ProRecruit
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Serverless Functions: Five Mistakes to Avoid When You're Starting Out
Serverless functions have a surprisingly high ratio of "looked simple, turns out complex" scenarios....

Dev.to · Tetsuya Wakita
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
CQRS with Clean Architecture in Kotlin: Separating Read and Write Paths for Better Performance
How CQRS inside Clean Architecture gave reads a fast path while keeping writes honest ...

Dev.to · Nilesh Raut
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
From PR to Production: How Kubernetes Deployments Actually Work (Microservices in the Real World)
Most developers know how to write code. Fewer understand what actually happens after clicking “Merge...

Dev.to · Moslem Chalfouh
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Kafka Retry Done Right: The Day I Chose a Simpler Fix Over @RetryableTopic
When the event is valid but the entity isn’t ready Context: Spring Kafka, Confluent Cloud,...

Dev.to · Amit Gawande
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
When LLMs Interview Each Other
I came across Sarvam AI recently and wanted to test its models. Though it focuses on Indian languages...

Dev.to · Maneesh Thakur
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
MD Files Connector — Stop Losing Track of Your Markdown Docs
The Problem Your project has a CONTRIBUTING.md, an ARCHITECTURE.md, a docs/API.md. You wrote them....

Dev.to · Christian Ameachi
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Building a Secure and Observable E-commerce Microservices Platform on AWS EKS
Introduction Building a production-ready microservices architecture involves more than...

Dev.to · Aiyesha Threa Caña
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Applying MVC Architecture in Python: Building an Automated Certificate Generator
Co-authored with Liarrah Lambayao (@ldlambayao) Have you ever tried to organize your files by...

Dev.to · Dolly Sharma
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
🧠 What Python Caches — and What It Does Not
Understanding Python’s Object Caching, Interning, and Memory Behavior Python performs...

Dev.to · Jeff Cameron
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
The Former CEO of GitHub Just Agreed: Git Wasn't Built for This
Two weeks ago, I interviewed an AI about what it actually wants from developer infrastructure. This week, Thomas Dohmke raised $60M to build it.

Dev.to · Walter Fernández
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
Building Reliable Distributed Systems with AWS Serverless
Learn how Idempotency, the Outbox Pattern, and Step Functions help build reliable distributed systems on AWS Serverless.

Dev.to · Luis Donis
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
4mo ago
The Rails SaaS Architecture I Wish I Had 5 Years Ago
Reflections on structuring serious Rails SaaS applications using modular engines instead of letting everything grow inside the main app.
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