Essential Things Every Professional Software Developer Should Know

GraphQL is better than OData, and REST… So this guide will show you how to create a GraphQL API allows you to offer a flexible data querying interface where clients can request exactly the data they need. Here, we’ll create a simple GraphQL API in C# that returns data about music artists and their albums. Prerequisites To follow along, you need...

When it comes to designing software, the SOLID principles are the gold standard for object-oriented programming. While Rust isn’t an object-oriented language in the strictest sense, it offers plenty of tools to apply SOLID principles effectively. With enums, traits, and strict type safety, Rust provides a solid foundation for building flexible,...

Rust has garnered significant attention in the programming world for its focus on memory safety without the need for a garbage collector, making it an appealing option for systems programming, where safety and performance are both critical. By preventing entire categories of bugs like data races, buffer overflows, and null pointer dereferencing...

It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers, and ensuring everything is...

Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While these tools have obvious...