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React State Management Libraries: Top Tools and How to Choose One

Uncover the importance of deliberate state management in React applications and how to select tools that align with your team’s scalability and architectural needs.

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Teimur Gasanov

Teimur Gasanov

Teimur is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience building React applications. He partners with clients to design high-performing, scalable solutions and has held senior roles at a diverse range of companies, including at global fintech organization Klarna and most recently for AI-driven startup Speechify.

Terraform vs. CloudFormation: Choosing the Right IaC Tool

Terraform and CloudFormation offer powerful but distinct paths to infrastructure as code. Explore their pros, cons, and when to choose each for AWS or multicloud deployments.

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Emiliano Angieri

Emiliano Angieri

Emiliano is a cloud engineer with more than a decade of experience designing and operating AWS-based architectures. He works with organizations on cloud adoption, helping teams create cloud-native systems and transition existing workloads to containerized infrastructure. His work focuses on building reproducible infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, strengthening security, availability, and performance, and automating software delivery pipelines to support reliable operations.

Client-side vs. Server-side Development: Key Differences and Advantages Explained

Modern web development is a constant balance between client-side and server-side execution. This guide breaks down their responsibilities, trade-offs, and how contemporary architectures combine both to optimize performance, security, and user experience.

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Alan Hadyk

Alan Hadyk

Alan is a senior front-end developer with more than 15 years of experience building products using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL. He has led SaaS revamps, built dashboards, implemented e-commerce sites from designs, and developed local-first mobile apps using Next.js, React Native, Tailwind CSS, and Prisma. His focus is on creating performant, reliable, and maintainable front-end code.

Gestalt Principles: Strategic Design Framework for UI/UX Leaders

Gestalt principles reveal how the brain organizes visual information. When applied thoughtfully, they improve interfaces by guiding attention, reducing friction, and making interaction feel immediate.

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Adel Benzehda

Adel Benzehda

Adel is a UI/UX designer who helps teams turn complex technology into clear, usable products. He has worked with early-stage startups and partnered with teams at Airbnb, Colgate, Supercell, and a range of emerging AI-focused companies. His work centers on shaping practical, user-centered interfaces.

Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Modern Front-end Development?

React still leads adoption, but Angular is more viable than ever. This in-depth comparison explains what’s changed, where each excels, and how to choose the right front-end framework or library based on team constraints, not hype.

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Tomas Holas

Tomas Holas

Tomas is a web developer with extensive experience designing and scaling front-end architectures across React and Angular. He has led framework evaluations, application rewrites, and performance-focused refactors for production systems. Known for his business-focused approach, Tomas prioritizes simplicity, maintainability, and making clear architectural trade-offs.

gRPC vs. REST: Key Differences, Performance, and Use Cases

Trying to decide between gRPC and REST? This guide goes beyond surface comparisons to focus on the performance and operational trade-offs that determine which API framework is right for your next build.

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Laszlo Gyori

Laszlo Gyori

Laszlo is a solutions architect and senior software engineer with deep expertise in microservices, gRPC, REST, and large-scale distributed systems. He has led high-traffic modernization projects across travel, finance, and lifestyle management, working on systems that handle more than 1 billion requests per day and designing cloud-based solutions on Azure and AWS. He holds a master’s degree in IT from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Python Logging Handlers: A Deep Dive Into Types, Configuration, and Best Practices

Python’s logging system goes far beyond basic message output. This guide explores handlers, structured logging, performance trade-offs, and real-world patterns for building production-ready logging pipelines.

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Camille Potard

Camille Potard

Camille is a senior software developer who builds robust desktop and real-time systems for global clients including e-on software, Hitachi, and Alstom. Specializing in Python, C, and C++, he has delivered solutions for railway systems, power infrastructure, video and imaging, 3D software, and web platforms.

Laravel API Tutorial: Creating and Testing a RESTful API

Laravel 12 modernizes API development with cleaner syntax, streamlined tooling, and developer-first conventions. Learn to build, secure, and test RESTful APIs with best practices and minimal setup.

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Alex Braden

Alex Braden

Alex is a senior full-stack developer specializing in Laravel and modern JavaScript frameworks. For more than a decade, he has partnered with companies like Bank of America and built scalable, data-driven applications that integrate data visualization and machine learning using frameworks like Node.js, React, Next.js, Vue.js, Angular, and Django.

How AI Medical Imaging Is Powering Precision Healthcare

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how medical images are acquired, analyzed, and interpreted. The transformation ushers in a new era of data-driven diagnostics and faster, more personalized patient care.

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Martin Elias Costa

Martin Elias Costa

Martin is a data scientist and AI engineer specializing in machine learning. After completing his Ph.D. in physics, he developed AI-powered tools and data products using diverse data types, including images, geospatial inputs, and natural language. He also built and deployed an end-to-end pipeline for medical imaging analysis, now in clinical use across Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

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