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How to diagnose and fix slow APIs using profiling, database optimization, caching, and observability. Continue reading on Medium »

Design APIs that are secure, maintainable, and easy to consume. Continue reading on Medium »

It ran fine in staging. In production, it locked your busiest table and took the whole API down with it. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

One client starts hammering your service with requests, and it slows to a crawl for everyone else. Continue reading on Medium »

The vi editor is a powerful, classic text editor that comes pre-installed on macOS and most Unix-like operating systems. For developers… Continue reading on Med

Redis is the Swiss Army knife of backend engineering. Need a fast cache? Redis. Need to rate-limit an API? Redis. Need a distributed lock… Continue reading on M

Upgrading a database is not simply a matter of replacing an executable. Continue reading on Medium »

The one file that works perfectly on your laptop and quietly sabotages you in production Continue reading on Backend Engineers Club »

Managed databases are convenient, but for many small teams and developers, running PostgreSQL on an isolated microVM can offer more… Continue reading on Medium

We’ve secured who can talk to whom (Network Policies) and who can do what via the API (RBAC). But there’s a third front that attackers… Continue reading on Medi

Same Go handlers, same OpenAPI spec, same staging traffic replay. The database choice changed what “safe deploy” meant. Continue reading on Production Engineeri

One of the most common architecture discussions in Kubernetes environments starts with a deceptively simple question: Continue reading on AegisOps »

If you’ve ever worked with APIs, Kubernetes Secrets, JWTs, or CI/CD pipelines, you’ve almost certainly encountered a long string like this: Continue reading on

Our SSE stream needed to stay open for up to 30 minutes. The result was a 504 in the cloud, even though the same code worked locally. Continue reading on Medium

A Contractor Needs DB Access for a Week. Open the Port? Continue reading on Medium »

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A visual, connected walkthrough of the full path from zero to architect. Continue reading on Medium »

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Learn how GatewayClass, Gateway, Listeners, HTTPRoute, BackendRef, ParentRef, and ReferenceGrant work together in Kubernetes. Continue reading on Medium »

Building “Tomato” — a food delivery app project — reminds me that progress isn’t about immediate perfection. Continue reading on Medium »

The hardest part isn’t choosing Token Bucket or Sliding Window. It’s surviving when Redis, your API Gateway, and your users all decide to… Continue reading on M

TimescaleDB is an incredible extension for PostgreSQL. By introducing hypertables, it automatically partitions your data into time-based… Continue reading on Me

A hands-on look at PostgreSQL WAL archiving — the quiet feature standing between “we lost some rows” and “we lost the whole afternoon.” Continue reading on Medi

After stabilizing FastAPI and PostgreSQL in Kubernetes yesterday, today’s focus was on adding Redis to the cluster and testing background… Continue reading on M