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May 6, 2026Why I Don't Care About 60 Articles in 60 Days (Read After #60)
TL;DR: I just hit 60 dev.to articles in 60 days. The previous article (#60) celebrated it. This one...
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May 5, 2026Contrarian View: RAG Is Overhyped – Fine-Tuned LLMs With PyTorch 2.5 Work Better for Internal Docs
In Q3 2024, 72% of engineering teams we surveyed reported RAG pipelines for internal documentation...
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May 4, 2026Contrarian View: You Should Not Use SSO for Internal Tools – Use Basic Auth and Cut Ops Overhead by 30%
Contrarian View: You Should Not Use SSO for Internal Tools – Use Basic Auth and Cut Ops...
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May 4, 2026Contrarian View: Feature Flags With LaunchDarkly 8.1 Cause More Outages Than They Prevent – Data From 1000+ Deployments
Over 1000 production deployments across 42 engineering teams, LaunchDarkly 8.1 feature flags were the...
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May 4, 2026Contrarian View: Cloud-Native Is Overhyped, Use Bare Metal Servers for 2026 High-Performance Workloads
Contrarian View: Cloud-Native Is Overhyped for 2026 High-Performance Workloads For the...
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May 3, 2026Contrarian View: AI Code Gen Is a Fad: Data from 2026 Developer Surveys
In Q3 2026, the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey revealed a startling reversal: only 22% of...
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May 8, 2026Contrarian View: AI-Powered Code Generation Leads to More Merge Conflicts in 2026 Teams
Contrarian View: AI-Powered Code Generation Leads to More Merge Conflicts in 2026...
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May 3, 2026Contrarian View: You Should Use XML for Configuration Files – It's More Readable Than YAML
In 2024, 68% of production incidents caused by misconfigured infrastructure stemmed from YAML parsing...
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May 3, 2026Contrarian View: Cloud-Native Is a Scam for Startups – Self-Hosting on Bare Metal with Docker 27 Cuts Costs by 60%
In 2024, the average early-stage startup spends 42% of its total burn on cloud infrastructure, up...
May 3, 202614 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 3, 2026Contrarian View: FAANG Experience with Java 23 and C# 13 Matters Less Than Startup Experience in 2026
In 2026, 72% of high-growth startups reject candidates with 5+ years of FAANG experience specializing...
May 3, 202612 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 3, 2026Contrarian View: You’re Wasting Money on Graviton5 Instances in 2026 – Use AMD EPYC 9005 Instead
Contrarian View: You’re Wasting Money on Graviton5 Instances in 2026 – Use AMD EPYC 9005...
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May 2, 2026Contrarian View: Serverless 2026 Is a Scam – AWS Lambda Costs 3x More Than EC2 for Steady Workloads
In 2026, AWS Lambda remains the poster child of serverless hype, but our benchmark of 12 steady-state...
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