4d ago · 11 min read · Update — April 2026: Since publishing this post, I iterated further on the model. I upgraded from Random Forest + SMOTE to XGBoost, achieving 85% recall and 0.969 ROC AUC in 0.92 seconds, without any
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Mar 26 · 10 min read · Series: Backend Engineering Fundamentals · Post 07 of 07 Level: Intermediate · Read time: ~9 min It's 2am. An alert fires. Your service is down. You open your dashboard: CPU is fine, memory is fine.
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Mar 26 · 8 min read · Series: Backend Engineering Fundamentals · Post 03 of 07 Level: Advanced · Read time: ~10 min Most API security bugs aren't cryptography failures. They're design failures. The OWASP API Security Top
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Mar 22 · 3 min read · Some performance problems are not about the code. They are about where the work is happening. This is a story about two search APIs that were quietly ruining user experience, and the one architectural
Join discussionMar 12 · 5 min read · If you have spent a decade building large-scale backend systems, you know that integrating modern, slow-running workloads—like LLM prompts or complex AI tasks—into legacy synchronous architectures is
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