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The second article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era looks at queues, hash tables, trees, indexes, and logs as they appear in real systems, and explains why they determine system boundaries, performance, and failure modes.
The fourth article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era discusses function calls, HTTP/RPC, message queues, event streams, and shared databases. The point is not choosing a fashionable technology, but clarifying coupling, transactions, failure, and observability boundaries.
The fifth article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era covers request and response schemas, error codes, idempotency, pagination, permissions, version compatibility, and contract tests. Before asking AI to write an API, write down the promise first.
The sixth article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era covers table design, indexes, transaction boundaries, locks, slow queries, and migrations. A database is not a universal JSON box; it is the hardest business-constraint layer in a system.
The seventh article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era covers caches, queues, and asynchronous jobs. A cache is not a magic accelerator, a queue is not a trash bin, and async jobs still need idempotency, retries, dead letters, batching, and backpressure.
The eighth article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era covers connection pools, batching, rate limiting, degradation, hot spots, cascading failures, and capacity estimation. Concurrency is not a single coding trick; it is pressure design across the whole call chain.
The twelfth and closing article in Programmer Craft in the AI Era returns to computer fundamentals, systems thinking, product judgment, communication, and collaboration, and discusses which abilities AI will amplify.