Software Development
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Zig’s Comptime Versus C++ Templates And Rust Macros
Every systems language eventually needs a way to generate code, specialize functions for different types, and make decisions before the…
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DuckDB And The Embedded Analytical Database Trend
For most of the history of data warehousing, running a serious analytical query meant talking to a server somewhere: a…
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The Language Server Protocol: The Quiet Standardization of Developer Tooling
Most developers today take it for granted that opening a Rust file in VS Code gives them autocomplete, go-to-definition, and…
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From RPC to gRPC: Understanding Modern Microservice Communication
Modern applications are increasingly built as collections of independently deployable services rather than as a single monolithic application. Microservices make…
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Client-Server Communication: HTTP, REST, WebSockets, GraphQL, and gRPC
Modern software applications depend on communication between clients and servers. Every time a browser loads a webpage, a mobile application…
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The Actor Model’s Long Lineage: From Hewitt’s 1973 Paper to Kotlin Coroutines
Every “actor” you’ve used, Erlang’s, Akka’s, Kotlin’s, descends from a single 1973 formalism. What survived the trip from language primitive…
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Go’s Implicit Interface Satisfaction: Structural Typing Without a Keyword
A type satisfies a Go interface just by having the right methods. No declaration, no keyword, no explicit contract. That’s…
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Rust’s Borrow Checker as Applied Type Theory
Ownership and borrowing are usually pitched as “smart pointers with extra steps.” They’re actually a decades-old branch of mathematics, put…
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Understanding OAuth 2.0 for Backend Developers
Modern applications rarely operate in isolation. Whether we are building a web app, mobile backend, or microservices architecture, our system…
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