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An aggregation pipeline that returns instantly on your 500-document local dataset can crawl once it hits a few million real documents. Here's how to actually find and fix the stage that's costing you.
Read ArticleFixed-window rate limiting looks fine in a demo and then lets through double the traffic right at the window boundary. Here's the sliding-window-counter approach that fixes that, built directly on Redis.
Read ArticleEvery multi-tenant SaaS eventually has to answer one question honestly: how do you stop one customer from ever seeing another customer's data? Here's how the three common isolation strategies actually compare in practice.
Read ArticleNestJS looks like a lot of ceremony at first glance. Once you see how modules, controllers, and providers map onto things you already do in Express, it clicks fast.
Read ArticleThe core pieces of wiring up recurring billing in a SaaS app - checkout sessions, webhooks, and keeping your database in sync with what Stripe actually says happened.
Read ArticleBoth are excellent databases. The real question is what shape your data takes and how it needs to be queried - not which one is 'better' in the abstract.
Read ArticleFeature branches, trunk-based development, and everything in between - a practical look at which branching approach actually fits a small team versus a large one.
Read ArticleA practical, jargon-light introduction to containers - what a Dockerfile actually does, and why 'it works on my machine' mostly stops being a problem.
Read ArticleHow to structure a small Express.js API with routing, middleware, and error handling that won't fall apart the moment the project grows past a single file.
Read ArticleuseState, useReducer, and lifting state up cover far more cases than people assume before reaching for a state management library. Here's how to think about the choice.
Read ArticleBetween IDEs, extensions, notification apps, and a dozen SaaS dashboards, development can start to feel like managing tools instead of writing code. A simple way to cut through it.
Read ArticleWorking from home removes the commute, but it often removes the line between 'at work' and 'at home' right along with it. Some habits that actually hold that line.
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