ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·4h ago · 4 min readYour AWS bill isn't a mystery - it's a receipt for decisions nobody revisitedMost AWS bills I've looked at aren't expensive because AWS is expensive. They're expensive because someone made a reasonable decision eighteen months ago and nobody's looked at it since. Here's a patt00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·4d ago · 4 min readWhat a wedding content brand taught me about database designA client of mine runs a content production business — they shoot content for wedding vendors and local brands. When we started working together, "tracking the business" meant memory, DMs, and whatever00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·6d ago · 4 min readWhy your search bar is slow (and it's probably not the reason you think)A telecom platform I worked on let customers manage their contacts — over 50,000 of them, organized into groups ranging from 500 to 3,000 people each. Businesses used these groups to send messages, ru54TJ
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·6d ago · 8 min readDatabases in Websites and Android Apps: What They Are, Why They Matter, and Which to ChooseIf your website or Android app remembers users, shows personalized content, or works offline, it’s almost certainly using a database. Databases are the organized “memory” behind modern apps, turning s00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Jul 25 · 11 min readPostgreSQL: The Four Layers Every Backend Engineer Eventually HitsMost PostgreSQL learning material fails for the same reason. It hands you a flat list — pg_hba.conf, Patroni, SKIP LOCKED, PL/pgSQL, PgBouncer, RLS — with no sense of which layer each item lives in or01I
