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The most recent articles published on funDesk — AI engineering, deep dives, and field notes.
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Master the art of writing effective prompts for LLMs in software development.
Build autonomous agents that handle complex multi-step engineering tasks.
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Funding rounds, product launches, market shifts, and the business of artificial intelligence.
Security threats, zero trust architectures, compliance frameworks, and protecting AI systems.
Developer tools market, hiring trends, productivity data, and the evolving role of software engineers.
Notable projects, licensing changes, community developments, and the open source ecosystem.
The latest frameworks, tools, and patterns shaping modern web development.
AWS, GCP, Azure and the evolving landscape of cloud computing.
Tools, workflows, and habits that make developers 10x more effective.
From arrays to advanced DP, rebuilt for how people actually interview in 2026.
RAG, evals, agents, MCP. A full-stack take on the job that didn't exist two years ago.
Load balancing, caching, consistency — without the whiteboard theater.
React Server Components, streaming, a11y, and shipping fast sites by default.
Python: Readable, versatile, high-level language with extensive libraries for rapid development across various domains.
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Advanced Python patterns, decorators, generators, async, and performance tips.
Core Java, Spring Boot, concurrency, and enterprise development patterns.
Modern JS/TS, React, Node.js, and full-stack development guides.
Design scalable systems — load balancers, databases, caching, and microservices.
Optimizes problem-solving through subproblem breakdown, storing solutions to enhance efficiency.
Strings are sequences of characters, fundamental in programming for text representation, manipulation, and processing.
A trie is a tree-like data structure for storing and retrieving dynamic sets, often used for efficient string matching.
A stack is a linear data structure that follows the Last In, First Out (LIFO) principle for storing and retrieving elem…
Recursion is a programming technique where a function calls itself to solve smaller instances of a problem, aiding in i…
A queue is a linear data structure that follows the First In, First Out (FIFO) principle for storing and retrieving ele…
A linked list is a linear data structure where elements are connected via pointers, allowing dynamic memory allocation …
A graph is a versatile data structure consisting of nodes and edges, representing relationships between entities in a n…
List of top data structure and algorithmic problems commonly asked in technical interviews.
Binary Tree: Tree data structure where each node has at most two children, left and right, facilitating efficient searc…
Binary Search Tree: Binary tree with the property that for each node, values in its left subtree are less, and in the r…
Arrays: Ordered, fixed-size data structures storing elements of the same type, accessed by index, crucial for efficient…
Master bitwise operators (AND, OR, XOR, NOT) to solve complex algorithmic problems with high performance and low memory.
Master array manipulation, two pointers, sliding window, and hash map techniques.
Binary trees, BSTs, graph traversal, shortest paths, and topological sort.
LIFO, FIFO, monotonic stacks, priority queues, and BFS patterns.
Solve constraint satisfaction problems with systematic exploration.
QuickSort, MergeSort, binary search variants, and search algorithms.
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