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17 resultsResilience Patterns — Circuit Breaker, Retry, Bulkhead, and Timeout
Prevent cascading failures with proven resilience patterns.
Observability — Logs, Metrics, and Traces
Implementing the three pillars with OpenTelemetry and making them actionable.
Secure Coding — OWASP Top 10 for Backend Engineers
Injection, broken auth, XSS, IDOR, and how to prevent each.
Extracting Microservices from a Monolith
The strangler fig pattern, identifying seams, and avoiding the distributed monolith.
WebSockets — Building Real-Time Features
Connection lifecycle, heartbeats, reconnection logic, and scaling with Redis pub/sub.
Data Mesh — Principles and Practical Implementation
Domain ownership, data products, self-serve infrastructure, and federated governance.
How to Upgrade RAM in a Desktop or Laptop
Find the right RAM, install it correctly, and verify it is running at rated speed.
Monitoring and Alerting for Data Pipelines
What to monitor, SLIs/SLOs for data, and building effective alerting.
Implementing Data Lineage Tracking
Column-level lineage, tools, and why it is critical for debugging and compliance.
API Error Handling — Consistent Error Responses
Error format standards, HTTP status code usage, and client-friendly error design.
How to Update Your BIOS Safely
When to update, how to do it without bricking the board, and recovery options.
Designing a Reliable Webhook System
Delivery guarantees, signature verification, retry logic, and consumer best practices.
Background Job Queue Design
Idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, and job observability.
Load Testing with k6
Script a realistic load test, interpret results, and find bottlenecks before they find users.
Designing and Publishing API Client SDKs
Auto-generation vs handwritten, retry logic, versioning, and developer experience.
Parquet vs CSV — Why Columnar Storage Matters
How Parquet's columnar format reduces storage costs and speeds up analytical queries.
Our observability stack for production services
Logs, metrics, traces — how we instrument every service we ship.