You’ve probably implemented counters dozens of times. A simple count++ here, a database increment there. But what happens when your humble counter needs to handle millions of increments per second across multiple data centers? Welcome to the fascinating world of distributed counters.
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Dev Weekly: Nvidia's Mystery Customers, Meta Ditches Scale AI and Nx Supply chain attack
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 25-31, 2025"
This week brought critical security news and major AI industry developments that every developer needs to know:
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How Stripe Prevents Double Payments
Learn the engineering patterns that prevent duplicate charges and how to implement them in your payment systems
You’re checking out online. Click “Pay Now”. Nothing happens. Click again. Boom - charged twice.
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From Manual Testing to Automated Excellence: GitHub Actions
Turn your repository into an automated testing and deployment machine that catches bugs before they reach users
Think of GitHub Actions as your digital assistant that never sleeps. Every time something happens in your repository - like pushing code or creating a pull request - Actions can automatically run tasks for you.
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Dev Weekly: Coinbase Fires Engineers, GitHub Gets Agents Panel, and Intel Gets a Government Lifeline
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 18-24, 2025
This week delivered some jaw-dropping stories that had developers debating everything from AI adoption policies to the future of chip manufacturing. From a CEO’s controversial firing decisions to government bailouts, here’s what dominated our feeds:
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55 Million Requests Per Second: Inside Cloudflare's Magic
Picture this: it’s Black Friday, millions of shoppers worldwide are frantically clicking “Add to Cart” on their favorite websites, and somewhere in the world, a massive DDoS attack is trying to bring down critical infrastructure. Yet, the internet keeps humming along smoothly. How? The answer lies in one of the...
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Dev Weekly: GPT-5 Arrives, GitHub CEO Departs, and AI Safety Gets Real
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 11-17, 2025
This week delivered some truly seismic shifts in the developer world. From OpenAI’s latest model hitting your IDE to one of tech’s biggest leadership changes, here’s what kept us glued to our feeds:
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How Uber Finds Nearby Drivers at 1 Million Requests per Second
Picture this. You’re standing outside Select City Walk in Saket, tired after shopping, and you open the Uber app. Tap the destination, hit “Book Ride”, and boom - within 3-4 seconds, you see “Driver is 2 minutes away” with his Maruti Dzire coming towards you on the map.
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From Panic to Performance: A Guide to Grafana k6 Load Testing
From panic to performance confidence – scripting, scaling, observing, and automating load tests with k6
1. From Firefighting to Foresight
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Dev Weekly: GPT-5 Revolutionizes Development, Critical RubyGems Security Threat, and Python's Performance Leap
Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 4-10, 2025
The week of August 4-10, 2025, delivered seismic shifts across the software development landscape. From OpenAI’s revolutionary GPT-5 launch to critical supply chain security threats, major cloud infrastructure updates, and significant language runtime improvements, this week had everything that defines our rapidly evolving industry. Here’s your essential guide to what...
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WhatsApp's Scaling Secrets: A Deep Dive into System Design and Architecture
WhatsApp is a household name, but for software engineers, it’s a legendary tale of massive scaling with a remarkably small team. At its peak, WhatsApp supported 900 million users with just 50 engineers. How did they achieve this incredible feat? The answer lies in a series of smart, and sometimes...
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Prompt Engineering Basics for Software Developers
Prompt engineering is a critical skill for software developers working with AI models like GPT. It involves crafting effective prompts to guide AI systems in generating accurate and relevant responses. Whether you’re building features, automating tasks, or exploring AI capabilities, understanding prompt engineering can significantly enhance your results.
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Git Command Line Basics: Essential Commands for Software Developers
Git is an indispensable tool for software developers, enabling version control, collaboration, and efficient workflows. While many developers rely on GUI tools, the command line offers unparalleled flexibility, speed, and control. In this post, we’ll explore the basics of Git command-line usage, essential commands, and why you should consider using...
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Taming Pipeline Chaos: How I Used GitLab APIs and GPT to Analyze Thousands of Failures and Boost Stability
Imagine this: It’s 9 AM, your nightly scheduled CI/CD pipeline has failed again, and you’re scrolling through endless log files, hunting for that one elusive error message. Sound familiar? In my last assignment, this was our almost daily nightmare. With hundreds of pipelines running weekly, manual debugging was sucking the...
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Dev Weekly: AWS Goes AI-Native, Mistral Unleashes Voxtral & Layoffs Hit Hard
Weekly Software Development News: July 28 – August 2, 2025
This week saw AWS unveil a revolutionary AI-driven software methodology, developers celebrate Mistral’s open-source voice model, and cloud platforms roll out critical upgrades. Dive into the biggest headlines, platform updates, security alerts, and community news shaping the dev landscape.
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How to Exclude a Single Module from `sbt test` in a Multi-Module Scala Project
When working with multi-module Scala projects, there are scenarios where you need to exclude specific modules from the sbt test command. This could be due to long-running integration tests, modules with external dependencies, or simply modules that aren’t ready for automated testing yet.
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Dev Weekly: GitHub Goes Dark, Python Breaks Free, and Azure Hits 1M Pods
Weekly Software Development News: July 21-27, 2025
It was an action-packed week for software development! GitHub’s longest outage in recent memory brought global dev work to a halt. Meanwhile, Python 3.14 RC1 smashed through the GIL bottleneck, Azure pushed pod scaling to a million, and critical security incidents kept cybersecurity teams on edge. Dive in for the...
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Github Actions for Android
CI/CD is a development practice that delivers software to the end user with speed and reliability. This is important for any kind of app be it web, mobile, console or desktop. In this post we will discuss how we can setup CI/CD for an Android Application using Github Actions.
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Pairing matrix for agile teams
I work in an agile team which follows extreme programming practices like pairing programming. But with pair programming comes the problem of switching pairs. Sometimes in big teams we do see that the individuals are not able to make the decision of with whom they should pair next. To overcome...
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How to integrate GraphQL with Sitecore using JSS
This blog contains step by step instructions on how you can integrate GraphQL with Sitecore. Also how you can start using GraphQL for querying the sitecore data.
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