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Java Strikes Back: Benchmarking Quarkus Native vs. Go for High-Throughput AdTech
Quarkus Native closed most of the historical gap with Go in a high-throughput AdTech bid receiver benchmark.
Articles
Essays, walkthroughs, and archived platform writeups.
Long-form writing across AI systems, backend engineering, platform operations, and the older archive that shaped the current point of view.
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MCP: The USB-C of AI Integrations
Why MCP matters, how hosts-clients-servers fit together, and what tools, resources, and prompts mean in practice.
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Why Local LLMs Matter in 2025
Local models are no longer just a hobbyist niche. In 2025 they are a practical answer to privacy, latency, and cloud-cost pressure.
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Kotlin and Java Interoperability
Kotlin and Java can live in the same codebase cleanly, which makes migration and mixed-language projects practical.
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Kafka Quickstart
A fast local Kafka setup with Docker, a test topic, and an Avro schema flow for producing and consuming messages.
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Pull the Docker Image from AWS ECR to Kubernetes
Easy walkthrough to pull a private Docker image from AWS ECR into a Kubernetes deployment.
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Simple Algorithm - Construct Binary Search Tree from Preorder Traversal
A straightforward way to rebuild a binary search tree from preorder traversal using standard BST insertion rules.
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Generate CA-signed certificate using LetsEncrypt and Certbot
A production-oriented walkthrough for generating a browser-trusted certificate with Certbot using DNS validation.
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Import AWS API Gateway Client Certificate to Java Keystore
Convert an API Gateway client certificate into DER format and import it into a Java keystore for mutual TLS flows.