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