Fifty years ago Fred Brooks published his most famous work, The Mythical Man-Month, in which he warned that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Today we are being promised that there is no need to add any manpower so long as you have machines to do your bidding. But does the advent of generative AI truly offer a silver bullet for software development?

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Rust's error handling approach is very different from many popular languages which support try/catch semantics. The return value pattern that Result<T, E> provides is flexible and powerful, but it also requires careful design for the error types that should be returned. We'll look at how error types for traits can best support implementors and users of our traits.

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ClickHouse supports a wide variety of SQL join types, but users should be aware of the possible performance problems that can manifest when querying large datasets. Understanding what gives rise to these challenges allows us to come up with strategies for crafting more efficient queries for large datasets.

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Using rust's expressive type system to create better command line interfaces for your software. Dive into the clap crate and see how it can lead to more maintainable, more friendly software for your users.

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