5d ago · 5 min read · Most chat applications look simple from the outside. Under the hood, they are complex distributed systems that must handle real-time communication, ordering, failures, and scale. To understand this de
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May 11 · 17 min read · I'm building Bluppi, a music listening app, as a solo project. At some point I wanted to add a friends activity feed, the part of the home screen that shows which friends are online, what they're list
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May 11 · 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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May 11 · 12 min read · This is Part 6 of the AI Engineering with TypeScript series. Prerequisites: Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 · Part 5 Stack: Node.js 20+ · Express 5 · @modelcontextprotocol/sdk v1.x · ioredis · TypeS
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May 10 · 4 min read · Whenever you build a distributed microservices architecture, you inevitably hit the "Queueing Crossroads." For my recent project—Aerial Vision—I reached this exact point. I had a decoupled architectur
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May 8 · 4 min read · With recent licensing changes in the caching ecosystem, Site Reliability Engineers are rapidly migrating enterprise workloads from Redis to Valkey. While Valkey maintains high parity with the Redis OS
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May 6 · 3 min read · I had this project I deployed a few days back: conduit, A webhook relay that makes sure webhook events coming from external sources get to your application server. Everything was going fine until I go
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