Software Architecture

I was there, I handled that. I was 14. My father and I put the first full time TV channel on the Brazilian internet, over dial-up connections. And if that wasn’t enough, it was a RURAL TV CHANNEL! For a rural audience that had barely heard of the internet. In fact, most of them just despised the internet. You might not believe it, but at the time, I remember, there wasn’t another one. And today, I’ve spent time looking for any record of something similar happening in Brazil around 2000. I found nothing. As far as I can verify, this was it. ...

Stop Using LLMs for Everything When we think about AI, the first thought is: LLMs. Chatting with the machine is cool, and the user loves it. BUT it’s not enough, you don’t need a robot friend (I hope, at least). To an engineer, not even ‘AI skills’ are enough… we need to go deeper. And one of the most important (and forgotten) subjects is: models. Each one is focused on a specific situation. ...

MF Rural - The biggest brazilian rural e-commerce It started in early 2005, I was just 18 and I already was deeply immersed in IT work and rural fields. At that time, I had already launched some professional websites to Canal do Boi (a rural national TV channel) and to some auction companies in Brazil. So I received a visit from some guys from another state (São Paulo), who wanted to create a new way to make business in the rural field. ...

Struct or class? Most types in a framework should be classes, but there are some situations in which the characteristics of a value type make it more appropriate to use structs. Here are some things to consider: 👍 If your instances are small and short-lived, or commonly embedded in other objects, consider using a struct. 👎 However, be cautious when defining a struct. Only use it if the type represents a single value, is immutable, has an instance size under 16 bytes, and will not need to be boxed frequently. ...