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Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for Developers Advertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } WebDevPro #125 Where AI actually saves time in modern development workflows Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for Developers Hi , Welcome to this week’s issue of WebDevPro! Aditya Agarwal, Facebook’s 10th employee and former CTO of Dropbox, sparked a wider conversation in the developer community this week after sharing a personal reflection about coding with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. After a weekend building with Claude, he wrote: “It was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again.” Then he admitted something more surprising: He felt happy, but also disoriented. Now that isn’t a prediction for “someday.” It’s a workflow shift happening right now. The real challenge for most teams isn’t access to AI. It’s integration. How do you apply AI to scaffolding, debugging, refactoring, UI generation, and delivery pipelines without disrupting your stack or compromising quality? That’s why this upcoming Progress workshop stood out to us. It’s designed to help developers integrate AI into real workflows, without losing control over quality, security, or governance. Webinar: AI for Developers – How to Achieve a 50% Productivity Boost If interested, sign up here This session breaks down technical workflows, architectural considerations, and hands-on demos showing how AI can augment development tasks, without requiring framework changes or replatforming. We’ll cover topics you care about: AI‑Assisted Component Scaffolding How AI can generate baseline UI components, form logic, data-binding structures, and reduce initial setup time. Debugging & Refactoring Using AI Agents Techniques for leveraging AI to identify bottlenecks, suggest optimized patterns, and modernize legacy code. AI‑Enhanced UI Development with Kendo UI & Telerik Practical examples of generating boilerplate, bindings, CRUD screens, tests, and documentation directly from your existing tech stack. Integrating AI into Dev Workflows Where AI fits into CI/CD, code reviews, architectural planning, prototyping, and cross-team collaboration. How Teams Achieve Measurable Gains (up to 50%) Real scenarios showing reduced time spent on repetitive implementation tasks, improved code consistency, and faster iteration cycles. Security & Practical Limitations What to automate, what not to automate, and how to ensure AI‑generated code aligns with team standards. Who should attend: Senior devs building complex front‑end or full‑stack applications Dev leads and architects driving technical decision‑making Teams exploring AI adoption without changing their existing stack Register & Save Your Seat! 👉 Join the webinar and see how AI can be embedded into real engineering workflows. 📅 February 26, 2026 ⏰ 9:30 PM GMT+5:30 Secure your spot! SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND! *{box-sizing:border-box}body{margin:0;padding:0}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{color:inherit!important;text-decoration:inherit!important}#MessageViewBody a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}p{line-height:inherit}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{mso-hide:all;display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden}.image_block img+div{display:none}sub,sup{font-size:75%;line-height:0}#converted-body .list_block ol,#converted-body .list_block ul,.body [class~=x_list_block] ol,.body [class~=x_list_block] ul,u+.body .list_block ol,u+.body .list_block ul{padding-left:20px} @media (max-width: 100%;display:block}.mobile_hide{min-height:0;max-height:0;max-width: 100%;overflow:hidden;font-size:0}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{display:table!important;max-height:none!important}} @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} }

.CloudPro #118Attackers are actively trying to keep you from recoveringIn the event of a cyberattack, the cost of downtime is measured not just in financial terms, but in operational disruption and reputational damage. While prevention strategies are crucial, they are not a substitute for a robust recovery plan.Backups alone do not guarantee a clean restoration.We invite you to our virtual event,Foundations of Cyber Resilience, on 11 February, where we will provide a practical framework for what happens after a breach.You will learn:Whytraditional recovery strategies can fail when they are needed most.Howto detect and eliminate threats within your backups to prevent reinfection.Key componentsof a modern, orchestrated, and clean recovery process.REGISTER NOWNext week in CloudPro, we're dropping something special: a deep-dive from Microsoft Azure MVP Stéphane Eyskens that every cloud architect needs to read.If you've ever wondered why your multi-region Azure setup feels more complex than it should, or if you're still figuring out what actually happens when a region goes down, this one's for you.Stéphane, author of the 5-star rated Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook, is sharing battle-tested patterns for building truly resilient systems using Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Storage. We're talking real code, Terraform scripts, and the kind of insights you only get from years in the trenches.Here's a sneak peek into what's coming...Cheers,Shreyans SinghEditor-in-ChiefHow to Build Always-On Applications on AzureBy Stephane EyskensA Sneak PeekBefore getting into the details, let's briefly revisit the difference between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).HA and DR exist on a spectrum, with increasing levels of resilience depending on the type of failure you want to withstand:Application-level failures: In some cases, you may simply want to tolerate application bugs—for example, a memory leak introduced by developers. Running multiple instances of the application on separate virtual machines, even on the same physical host, can already prevent a full outage when one instance exhausts its allocated memory. That is for instance, what you would get if you spin up 2 instances of an Azure App Service within the same zone (no zone redundancy).Hardware failures: To handle hardware failures, workloads should be distributed across multiple racks. That is what you would get if you'd host virtual machines on availability sets.Data centre–level outages: To withstand more severe incidents, workloads should be spread across multiple data centers, such as by deploying them across multiple availability zones. You can achieve this by turning on zone-redundancy on Azure App Service or use zone-redundant node pools in AKS. With such a setup, you should survive a local disaster such as fire, flooding, etc.Regional outages: Finally, to survive major outages, such as a major earthquake, a country-level power supply issue, etc., workloads must be deployed across multiple Azure regions in active/active or active/passive mode.Next week, Stéphane walks through exactly how to architect for each scenario, with diagrams, code, and real failover examples you can test yourself. Don't miss it.Early Bird closes in 72 hours. Last Few Seats At This Price.Book Your Seat NowUse code EARLYBIRD40 to get 40% OffWe're running a 5-hour workshop on architecting production-grade GenAI systems on AWS. Hands-on, practical, built for cloud architects and engineers.Here's the deal:Most GenAI content is either toy demos that work once or vendor pitches. 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