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Top 12 GitHub AI Repositories These repositories were selected based on their overall popularity and GitHub stars. 1. OpenClaw: The always-on personal AI agent that lives on your device and talks to you through WhatsApp, Telegram, and 50+ other platforms. 2. N8n: A visual workflow automation platform with native…

12 Claude Code Features Every Engineer Should Know. YouTube video link at the end. 1. CLAUDE. md: A project memory file to define custom rules and conventions. Claude reads at the start of every session. 2. Permissions: Control which tools Claude can and can't use. 3. Plan Mode: Claude plans before it acts. You can…

Load Balancer vs API Gateway Load balancers and API gateways both sit between your clients and backend servers. But they do very different things, and mixing them up causes real problems in your architecture. A load balancer has one job: distribute traffic. Clients send HTTP(s) requests from web, mobile, or IoT ap…

Load Balancer vs API Gateway Load balancers and API gateways both sit between your clients and backend servers. But they do very different things, and mixing them up causes real problems in your architecture. A load balancer has one job: distribute traffic. Clients send HTTP(s) requests from web, mobile, or IoT ap…

Top 12 GitHub AI Repositories These repositories were selected based on their overall popularity and GitHub stars. 1. OpenClaw: The always-on personal AI agent that lives on your device and talks to you through WhatsApp, Telegram, and 50+ other platforms. 2. N8n: A visual workflow automation platform with native…

Writing code is easy now, but testing code is hard. Let’s take a look at where different types of tests fit. - Unit + Component Tests: These test individual functions or UI components in isolation. They’re fast, inexpensive to run, and easy to maintain. Tools like Jest, Vitest, JUnit, pytest, React Testing Library…