What’s New in Developer Tools: Zed’s DeltaDB, Cursor 3.7, and Claude Code’s Sub-Agent Chains
Editor’s note, September 2026: The DeltaDB beta promised below shipped — but as a separate product. In August, Zed introduced
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GitHub Actions: Practical CI/CD Patterns for Production Workflows
Editor’s note (September 12, 2026): Every pattern below still holds. Action pins were refreshed to current majors — checkout v7,
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Rust 1.95 and 1.96: Copy Ranges, cfg_select!, and Pattern Matching Upgrades
Rust 1.95 and 1.96 landed within weeks of each other this spring, and together they bring a surprisingly impactful set
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CQRS and Event Sourcing: Building an Order System from Scratch in Go
CQRS and Event Sourcing: Building an Order System from Scratch in Go Most of us build CRUD services by default:
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pg_durable: Durable Workflows Inside PostgreSQL Without External Infrastructure
Every backend team eventually builds the same thing: a rickety scaffolding of cron jobs, background workers, message queues, and status
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Container Security in Production: A Practical Hardening Playbook
Every container you ship to production is an attack surface. Debian or Ubuntu-based container images typically bundle hundreds of OS
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Rate Limiting Strategies for Production APIs: From Token Buckets to Distributed Throttling
Every public API has a ceiling. Whether you’re running a SaaS platform, a microservice cluster, or a simple REST endpoint,
The Strategy Pattern in Practice: Replacing Complex Conditionals with Composable Behaviors
Every codebase has one: a function that started as a simple if/else and grew into a 200-line switch statement with
The AI Coding Agent Landscape in 2026: Codex CLI, Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot Compared
A year ago, most developers interacted with AI coding tools through inline completions — a few lines suggested here, a
Argo CD 3.4: Practical GitOps Patterns for Production Kubernetes
GitOps has moved past the hype phase and into production maturity. If you’re running Kubernetes at scale, the question isn’t
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