Originally published at https://allcoderthings.com/en/article/csharp-collections-list-dictionary-queue-stack In C#, collections are used to store multiple values dynamically and process them efficiently. Arrays have fixed size, but collections can grow and shrink as needed. This article covers List<T>, Dictionary<TKey,TValue> (and KeyValuePair<,>), SortedList<TKey,TValue>, Queue<T>, Stack<T>, Hash
Something shifted in the last ninety days. While the headlines talk about 1.9% tech growth, those of us in the trenches are seeing a different reality: The floor has been hit. We are no longer in the "automation at all costs" era. We have entered the era of Human-Led Resilience. The Reality of 27-Second Breakouts In my day job in public safety communications, "uptime" isn't a KPI; it's a lif
The math isn't complicated. It's just that nobody runs it until they get the bill. An AI agent handling a 10-turn workflow — reading files, calling tools, revising output — doesn't cost 10x a single query. Because transformer inference processes the entire context on every call, cost compounds with each additional turn. The tenth turn carries everything that preceded it: the original file reads, e
Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Deterministic cleanup means knowing exactly when resources are freed — the difference between memory chaos and predictable system behavior in production environments. So our video transcoding service was… how d
Our goal has always been to be the go-to blockchain node platform across any chain and environment. Today, that includes the nodes you run on your own hardware. Running your own Ethereum infrastructure should be the basic right of every individual and household. Nodes should be easy. The catch? Self-hosting has always meant complexity. Manual setup, client updates, nodes falling out of sync, moni
If you mostly live in .NET, the Java platform can look like a parallel universe: JVM, JDK, JARs, app servers, bytecode. The useful shortcut is to map each concept back to something you already know from C# and the CLR. This guide is a translation layer for .NET developers: what the JVM is, how the JDK compares to the .NET SDK, and what your real options are when a C# system needs to work with Java
I shipped Shin KoiKoi v0.1.0 two days ago — a free, polished hanafuda Koi-Koi card game built solo with Godot 4.6 .NET in 2 days. (Earlier post: the v0.1.0 release log) For v0.1.1 I added a 17-stage promotion exam system that turns the existing rank progression from "MMO experience grind" into something closer to the real Japanese kyū/dan exam tradition. Here's how I designed and shipped it in one