Advanced Java
Using GraalVM for Native Images: Faster Startup, Lower Memory
The biggest criticism of Java in the serverless world has been startup time. A cold start of a Spring Boot app can take 20-30 seconds. GraalVM changes that…
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AWS
AWS Lambda: Running Code Without Servers
Lambda changed how I think about running code. It lets you upload a function and run it without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only when your co…
Edge Computing
Edge Functions: Running Code at the CDN Layer
Edge Functions represent a fundamental shift in deployment architecture, allowing developers to run code at CDN edge locations closest to users. Instead of…
How to Use Claude
Building a Chatbot with Claude: A Developer's Starter Guide
Building a functional chatbot with Claude is more achievable than most people expect, even with modest programming experience. Here's a practical starting…
AWS
DynamoDB: NoSQL Database That Scales Forever
DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database with seamless scalability. I was used to relational databases, but DynamoDB's key-value and document model took…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Kubernetes Cluster for $0.10 a Day with GKE Autopilot
Kubernetes is powerful but scary. It's also expensive if you run it wrong. I had a small app that needed a database, a cache, and an API. Running this on s…
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Functions: The Duct Tape That Holds My Side Projects Together
I have a problem: I start too many side projects. But I also have a solution: Google Cloud Functions. Need a webhook? Cloud Function. Need to process an im…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Kubernetes Cluster for $0.10 a Day with GKE Autopilot
Kubernetes is powerful but scary. It's also expensive if you run it wrong. I had a small app that needed a database, a cache, and an API. Running this on s…
AWS
Amazon ECS: Running Containers on AWS
Elastic Container Service is AWS's container orchestration service. I started with Docker locally and then moved to ECS to run containers in production. Yo…
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Functions: The Duct Tape That Holds My Side Projects Together
I have a problem: I start too many side projects. But I also have a solution: Google Cloud Functions. Need a webhook? Cloud Function. Need to process an im…
Google Cloud Platform
Why I Finally Dumped My Old Server for Google Cloud Run (And You Should Too)
I used to be a server person. I liked having my little VPS, SSH-ing into it, installing packages manually. It felt like being a real sysadmin. But then cam…
Google Cloud Platform
Why I Finally Dumped My Old Server for Google Cloud Run (And You Should Too)
I used to be a server person. I liked having my little VPS, SSH-ing into it, installing packages manually. It felt like being a real sysadmin. But then cam…
Google Cloud Platform
I Built a $10 Million App Idea on GCP for $3.42
I had this app idea. A travel planner that uses AI to generate itineraries. Big dreams, no money. I decided to build it on Google Cloud. I used Cloud Run f…
Security
Authentication in Web Apps: JWT, Sessions, and OAuth Explained
Authentication is one of those topics that every web developer eventually needs to understand. The two traditional approaches are session-based authenticat…
Google Cloud Platform
I Built a $10 Million App Idea on GCP for $3.42
I had this app idea. A travel planner that uses AI to generate itineraries. Big dreams, no money. I decided to build it on Google Cloud. I used Cloud Run f…
Advanced JavaScript
WebAssembly: Running High-Performance Code in the Browser
WebAssembly (Wasm) is changing what's possible in web development by allowing compiled languages like C++, Rust, and Go to run in the browser at near-nativ…