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Dev.to · speed engineer
1d ago
Sunday Notes: Find Where Before You Theorize Why
This week I wrote about two things that have nothing to do with each other. On Saturday it was a...
Dev.to · speed engineer
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2d ago
I Lost 30% of My UDP Packets — and the Network Was Innocent
A receiver pulling a UDP feed was missing roughly 30% of its messages. No errors, no exceptions, no...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3d ago
We Built Two Products Around the Same Boring Insight: Valuable Work Leaks
The pattern we kept ignoring When you build software for a living, you start noticing the...
Dev.to · speed engineer
5d ago
Prompt drift: why the AI prompt that worked last month quietly stopped working
If you share AI prompts with your team, you've probably hit this without having a name for it: A...
Dev.to · speed engineer
1w ago
The 6-Minute Tasks That Quietly Cost Freelancers a Full Day of Pay Each Week
Ask a freelancer how many hours they billed last week and you'll get a confident number. Ask how many...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
The 60-Second Time-Tracking Habit That Killed My Friday "Reconstruction Ritual"
The 60-Second Time-Tracking Habit That Killed My Friday "Reconstruction Ritual" For about...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
Sunday Notes: The Workflows Your Team Runs But Never Writes Down
Sunday Notes: The Workflows Your Team Runs But Never Writes Down Every team I've talked to...
Dev.to · speed engineer
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2w ago
I Shipped Two SaaS Products. They Taught Me the Same Founder Lesson Twice.
The pattern I almost missed Last year I shipped two products from two completely different...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
Your Team's Best AI Prompts Are Dying in Slack DMs
Personal prompt docs scale to one person. Past that, teams need shared infrastructure for the prompts that actually work.
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
Rust Kernel Modules, Ready-to-Ship: A cargo-generate Template with Tests, CI, and Zero-Panic…
Build production-grade kernel modules in 60 seconds — with tests, GitHub Actions, and compile-time...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
I lost $480 to my own timesheet — here is the math
The week I shipped a 40-hour feature and billed 32 Last March I closed out a sprint for an...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
I Migrated Redis to KeyDB — Same Protocol, 5x Throughput, $0 Rewrite
Our Redis cluster was maxing out at 180k ops/sec across 12 nodes. KeyDB handled 850k ops/sec on 3...
Dev.to · speed engineer
2w ago
I Fired My Entire Node.js Stack — Rust Rebuilt It in 3 Weeks (The Ugly Truth)
Our API was drowning under 50ms P99 latencies. I rewrote everything in Rust expecting miracles. Got...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3w ago
gRPC Performance: tonic (Rust) vs grpc-go Benchmarked at Scale
Production benchmarks reveal the surprising winner in the battle for microsecond-level RPC...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3w ago
Go Panics, Controlled: Boundaries That Protect Users
Why 47% of Go Production Outages Start with Unhandled Panics — And the Boundary Patterns That Stop...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3w ago
Data Races Reproduced: Harnesses That Catch Heisenbugs
The testing framework that forces concurrent bugs into the open — with a 94% reproduction rate ...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3w ago
Building Real-Time Trading Systems: Why We Abandoned Go for Rust
The microsecond-level performance data that forced our complete architectural rewrite ...
Dev.to · speed engineer
3w ago
Database Connection Pooling: We Benchmarked 7 Strategies So You Don’t Have To
The 312% throughput difference between worst and best — real production data reveals which pooling...
Dev.to · speed engineer
4w ago
Go Benchmarks That Actually Mean Something Why Your “40% Faster” Optimization Does Nothing in…
Your JSON unmarshalling drops from 250ns to 150ns. That’s 40% faster! The graphs look amazing, your...
Dev.to · speed engineer
1mo ago
Shipping two SaaS products taught me one thing: kill features faster
Two years ago I made what felt like a smart decision: instead of betting everything on one product,...
Dev.to · speed engineer
1mo ago
The hidden cost of guessing at your timesheets every Friday
The Friday afternoon scramble every freelancer knows It's 4:47 PM on Friday. You're...
Dev.to · speed engineer
1mo ago
5 Quiet Wins From This Week That Didn't Come From Grinding Harder
Sunday Reset, Quiet Edition Most weekly recaps celebrate the big shipping moments. This...
Dev.to · speed engineer
1mo ago
Network Programming Battle: io_uring in Rust vs epoll in Go
When raw throughput collides with real-world complexity, the fastest I/O model isn’t always the...
Dev.to · speed engineer
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
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1mo ago
My Load Balancer Handles 5M RPS: Architecture and Lessons Learned
From 50K RPS to 5M RPS: The Hard-Won Insights That Only Come From Scale My Load...
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