Prompt Engineering Mastery: 12 Advanced Techniques Top Developers Use in 2026
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Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini 2026: Which AI Coding Assistant Actually Saves You Time
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One Missing Index Caused Our Database to Timeout Under Load
missing database index The error started appearing at 2:14 PM. Not gradually. Not as a warning. Just sudden, complete failure. SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away SQLSTATE[HY000]:…
Our Cron Jobs Were Quietly Failing for Months — Here’s Why
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A 10-Line Code Change That Eliminated Random Production Failures
Laravel Job Deadlocks It was 2:47 AM when my phone buzzed with the fourth Sentry alert of the night. Same error, mysterious stack trace. Same "I have no idea what's…
This One Laravel Mistake Was Causing 3-Second API Responses
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The Silent Killer of Go Services: Debugging and Setting OS Resource Limits (ulimit and RLIMIT) in Production
go resource limits production Last Tuesday at 3:47 AM, my phone buzzed with an alert that made my stomach drop. Our payment processing service was down. Not slow. Not degraded.…
Building a CLI Tool from Scratch in Go
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Building RESTful APIs with Go and Gorilla Mux
Last month, I had to rebuild our team's API from scratch. The old one? A mess of spaghetti code that nobody wanted to touch. I decided to go with Go…
Go Language: The Complete Developer’s Guide to Modern Concurrent Programming
I still remember my first encounter with Go. It was 2018, and our team was struggling with a monolithic Java application that took forever to build and deploy. A colleague…