20h ago · 8 min read · 💡 TLDR: Polling is wasteful and can't give you true real-time delivery. Emitting events directly from application code is fragile — a partial failure leaves your database and broker out of sync. WAL-
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17h ago · 3 min read · When I started learning Docker, I had no idea I’d end up deploying a real application on a cloud server within the same month. It ended up changing how I think about building software. The Idea I didn
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16h ago · 5 min read · My CI pipeline failed on the first push. Not because of a big mistake. But because of a layer conflict in my Dockerfile that only showed up in a clean environment. Locally — everything worked. CI — re
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1d ago · 9 min read · I run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: StatefulSets, PVCs, operators, the full stack. One problem that comes up constantly in multi-tenant platforms: instances that sit completely idle for hours still consum
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2d ago · 15 min read · I wanted to know exactly how many TPS our messenger's send API could survive — and where it would actually break. So I mirrored production into a 7-node load-test environment, and instead of treating
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3d ago · 6 min read · 👋 Introduction I started this project thinking scaling was mostly about optimizing database queries. But once I started load testing an event ingestion pipeline under hundreds of concurrent requests,
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