Every engineering team eventually faces the same dramatic sentence.
We should just rewrite this.
It is usually said after a bug, a missed deadline, or a moment of emotional exhaustion while reading a file that appears to have been written during a power outage.
Rewriting feels clean. Refactoring feels responsible....
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The burgeoning field of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized how we interact with information, but their core limitation often lies in the finite 'context window' – the maximum number of tokens an LLM can...
Early in my career, I thought polyrepos were the way. Microservices, each in their own repo, independently deployable — it felt clean and modern. Then I joined Meta and worked in their massive monorepo, and it changed how I think about code organization entirely. Anything I needed to change, I could change it right there. Everything was discoverable. One commit could do everything I needed it t...
Cetus lost $223M to a shift overflow. Aftermath lost $1.14M to a negative fee. Bucket Protocol ships a decimal scaling bug today. All three passed audits. All three have the same root cause.
I've spent the last month reading exploit post-mortems, scanning production Sui contracts, and building lint rules to catch what I kept seeing. After the third time the same shape showed...
Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday).
Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏
Debian 13 “Trixie” provides a clean, stable base for Java agent development. On a
workstation, virtual machine, or cloud instance, you can compile Java projects, run
local web servers, use the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) Dev UI, and deploy an
agent to Google Cloud Run.
This guide builds a small ADK agent with time and weather tools. The complete project
is availab...