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Ace These 5 Backend Concepts to Become a Senior Engineer
Nowadays, AI can help ship almost every backend feature in a few minutes, but it does not replace the fundamentals you need to understand when your agent is moving in the wrong direction. CRUD endpoints, webhooks, external integrations, file import/export, and background jobs may look simple on the surface. But in real systems, each of them hides a lot of important decisions. Table of Contents CRUD and API Design Webhooks External API integrations Bulk Import and Export Background tasks From my
S3 Bucket Regional Namespaces with CDK
So you learned about the new S3 bucket account regional namespace feature and you're thinking "this is amazing, let me try in CDK." Well... This is where you'll learn that the L2 Bucket construct has not yet been updated to allow for this. Currently there are the following items which are tracking the long term fix. Issue aws/aws-cdk#37760 PR aws/aws-cdk#37386 You should give both of these a đź‘Ť to help them get prioritized and shipped. Workaround Good news there is a workaround! By using the L1
.NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for May 2026. The post .NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly
Microsoft Copilot Studio recently upgraded its .NET WebAssembly engine to .NET 10. The migration was straightforward, simplified deployment, and delivered another round of meaningful performance gains for end users. The post Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly appeared first on .NET Blog.
The "Double-Booking" Nightmare: Building a Rule-Driven Hostel Allocator with MongoDB Transactions
How I built a transactional hostel allocation engine that eliminates race conditions and double-bookings using MongoDB sessions. Handling logistics for a 500+ person event—like a major hackathon or campus festival—is easy on paper. It becomes significantly harder at 2:00 AM when multiple exhausted teams arrive at the registration desk simultaneously while operators manually juggle room assignments. In this article, I’m pulling back the curtain on the "brain" of Project Morpheus: a transactional
I built a Chrome extension that downloads every image on a page — here's what I learned about Shadow DOM, CSS backgrounds, and Manifest V3
For three years I've kept a folder called _inspiration on my desktop, full of images I "saved as" while researching designs, products, or just browsing. About 60% of the time, "save image as" failed silently — the file would be a 1×1 transparent placeholder, or a low-res thumbnail, or just nothing because the image was a CSS background. I tried the popular image downloader extensions. They missed about half of what I wanted to save. They also bundled analytics. So I built my own, called Image Ha