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
We're all learning how to ship more side projects. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is repo-maxxing. Shipping weekly. Spinning up agents to scaffold full apps overnight. New OSS dropped every Friday. The reality I see with most developers is much more normal: They have six or seven repos sitting in various states of half-attention. A side project from last year that still gets a
I have a confession: I used react-i18next for years and genuinely never questioned it. It worked. It was everywhere. Every project I joined during my internships at DNB had it set up. You install it, you configure it, you wrap your app in a provider, and you ship. Done. But then I started building more things on my own, projects where I got to choose the stack from scratch, and I started noticing
Exemplo mínimo de uso com Bun (baseado na documentação oficial) Aviso: Este exemplo é puramente acadêmico, baseado na documentação oficial do Next.js. Para um ambiente de produção real, ajustes adicionais de segurança, performance e monitoramento são necessários. 1 - Ajustar o next.config.ts para "Standalone": import type { NextConfig } from "next"; const nextConfig: NextConfig = { output: "
We Rewrote Our Angular 18 App in React 20 and Increased Developer Velocity by 40% Last quarter, our engineering team made the bold call to rewrite our 3-year-old Angular 18 production application in React 20. After 6 months of development, we cut over to the new stack with zero downtime, and the results have exceeded our expectations: we’ve measured a 40% increase in developer velocity, alongsid
Building a Full-Stack Habit Tracker with Claude Code - Part 2: Polish, Testing & Deployment Taking the habit tracker from MVP to production-ready with categories, analytics, comprehensive testing, and Vercel deployment In [Part 1], we built a fully functional habit tracker MVP in about 6-8 hours using Claude Code as our AI pair programmer. We had: ✅ Basic CRUD operations for habits ✅ Date-based
Dapper vs. Entity Framework When building data-driven applications in .NET, two of the most popular data access technologies are Dapper and Entity Framework Core (EF Core). While both serve the same fundamental purpose—interacting with databases—they take very different approaches. Choosing between them depends heavily on your performance needs, development style, and project complexity. Let’s b