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Quo Vadis, Software Engineering?

In the AI era, where agents generate decent code fast, the idea that great developers just produce more is even harder to defend. Output isn't the differentiator. When I think about one skill that separates good developers from exceptional ones, it's...

A Plan Built by Claude

Recently, the phrase "vibe coding" has gained popularity. It sounds fun — describe what you want, let the AI figure it out, and ship. But here's the uncomfortable truth: vibe coding without understanding what's happening under the hood is an irrespon...

Redis is often praised as one of the simplest yet most powerful databases. Its key-value model is blazing fast for direct lookups, but when it comes to querying by ranges, ranks, or sorting, Redis doesn’t give you much out of the box. Unless, of cour...

When building distributed systems, generating unique identifiers becomes tricky. But why do we need them to be both unique AND sortable? Uniqueness is obvious - you can't have duplicate IDs causing data corruption or overwriting records. But sortabil...
