PinnedI Rewrote a Production Go Service in Rust — It Broke Everything, Then Broke RecordsMigrating a critical, production‑grade microservice from Go to Rust was one of the hardest engineering challenges our team has ever faced…Apr 236Apr 236
PinnedThis One Kafka Design Pattern Changed Everything for UsWhen we first adopted Kafka, we treated it like a message queue. Producers dumped events, consumers picked them up, and life went on —…Apr 625Apr 625
PinnedKubernetes Without Docker Is the Future — Are You Ready?Docker is no longer part of Kubernetes — here’s what that really means and how you should prepare.Apr 817Apr 817
Application-Level vs CDN-Level Caching: What You Should Cache WhereWhen we first started scaling traffic on one of our web applications, we noticed something strange. Our backend services were robust, the…8h ago18h ago1
Leader? Follower? ISR? If These Kafka Terms Confuse You, Read ThisIf you’re working with Apache Kafka and keep bumping into terms like Leader, Follower, or ISR, you’re not alone. These are fundamental…19h ago19h ago
How Java Took Me From Writing Code to Thinking Like an EngineerWhen I first started programming in Java, I was focused on getting things to work. If a function returned the right result, I considered…1d ago1d ago
How I Accidentally Built a Blazing Fast Static Site Generator in RustIt started with a weekend project. I just wanted to generate a few HTML pages from Markdown, maybe throw in a template or two. I wasn’t…1d ago11d ago1
Go vs Rust vs Java: I Built the Same App in All 3 — Here’s What Blew Me AwayI recently decided to run an experiment. I built the same backend app in Go, Rust, and Java — the kind of simple CRUD API you’d typically…2d ago2d ago
Why Your Golang Microservice Might Be Leaking Memory Right NowGo has earned a reputation for being fast, efficient, and production-ready out of the box. Its garbage-collected runtime makes it appealing…2d ago22d ago2
Design Patterns vs. Clean Code: The Unexpected WinnerSoftware developers often find themselves at the crossroads of two seemingly complementary yet conflicting principles: design patterns and…3d ago3d ago