Systems Design & Architecture

PostgreSQL High Availability: Patroni, pg_auto_failover, and Streaming Replication...

Artificial Intelligence workloads are pushing traditional cloud architectures to their limits....

Azure Functions for .NET Developers: Series Part 1: Why Azure Functions? Serverless for .NET...

I recently benchmarked Serverless vs Dedicated compute in Databricks. I expected one of them to...

I wanted to build a platform where AI agents could access real-world data — IP geolocation, DNS...

Lessons on GPU orchestration, identity-based security for LLMs, and managing AI infrastructure using the HashiStack.

Most Rails developers stop learning routing after resources :posts. But if you are building a SaaS...

Let’s bypass the endless debate over Monolith vs. SPA. If you've decided a decoupled architecture is...

Most articles about Hexagonal Architecture show clean diagrams and confident explanations. This is...

During the last couple of years I have changed my life by adopting a low-carb/keto diet and lots of...

How I bypassed Vercel's 250MB limit using a Go serverless proxy, compressed vendor, and a bundled...

The Idea and Architecture This is Part 1 of a 6-part series on building Pockr — a single...

I Built a 40-Page Solana Mobile App in 4 Days. Here's the Architecture. The MONOLITH hackathon...

Everyone talks about the technical challenges of microservices: network latency, distributed...

In software development, confidence is cheap. You can memorize frameworks, quote architecture...

Load Balancer vs API Gateway — A Simple Story A few weeks ago, I was in an...

The Limitations of the Monolithic Model Approach In the early stages of Generative AI adoption, the...

Running 45 Fastify and Express microservices on a single VPS with PM2 and Nginx. Here's the architecture, the tradeoffs, and what I learned.

If there is one absolute truth in software development, it is that external dependencies will...

How to build a smarter caching layer that only fetches what it needs — and when it needs it. If...

1. Goal of Today’s Architecture Today we enhanced an existing serverless architecture by...

For the past week, I've been deep in the weeds of Go. I've built a few REST APIs and CLI tools, so I...

Use layer caching, BuildKit cache mounts, and parallel stages to make your Docker builds faster.

TL;DR: Your service compiles. Your unit tests pass. Your integration tests are green. But a single...

Lightning‑Fast Serverless AI Inference on the Edge with WASM When a user types a...

How humans learned to know they exist — from tribal echo to digital mirror I. INTRODUCTION...

Accelerate Edge Microservices: Test & Deploy with Cloudflare Workers When a user in...

Πώς στήνουμε σωστά τα validations και γιατί δεν πρέπει να βάζουμε business logic στους...

In the age of distributed systems — where every component must be not just fast, but predictable —...

In the world of microservices and third-party APIs, network communication is the lifeblood of our...

Hey devs and data enthusiasts! Ever felt like your data warehouse is a chaotic junk drawer full of...

Learn what Apache Kafka is, how it works, and why top companies use it for event-driven systems, real-time data streams, and microservices.

Recently my friend failed an interview at a top tech company. The interviewer didn't ask about...

If you’ve ever worked close to the marketing or growth teams in a tech company, you’ve probably...

In the high-stakes world of financial applications, data consistency is not just a feature—it is a...

Modern APIs rarely fail because of logic. They fail because of performance. Picture this. You...

Introduction: The Inefficiency of Multi-Tenant PostgreSQL in Kubernetes Deploying...

Most deployment tools are black boxes. You run a command, cross your fingers, and hope it works. I...

Over the past few years, I have written about serverless from a technical perspective, covering...

1 DIFF B/W INTERFACE AND ABSTRACT Feature Interface Abstract Class Purpose Defines a...

Build lead capture systems that integrate with your marketing stack. Discover component based architectures enabling marketing velocity and data integ

Hi dear reader 👋, Welcome to my very first blog post on DEV, grab a cup of coffee, this one's worth...

There’s a common misconception — and it often shows up as an interview question: On the first...

Let’s be honest: how many times does your Angular app hit the same endpoint over and over...

If you've worked on a web app for any length of time, you know the deal with caching. You add a...

A deep dive into the real-time event pipeline, Discover Weekly's ML architecture, fleet-scale microservices, and the A/B testing culture that ships 520 experime

Introducing Ratethrottle The Swiss Army knife of rate limiting - everything you need in...

Put your Stripe customers, invoices, and subscriptions into Neon's serverless Postgres — no code, no...