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Designing a URL Shortener: From Interview Diagram to Production Reality
A production-focused system design walkthrough for building a URL shortener that stays fast, safe, and observable under real traffic, with practical TypeScript examples and clear tradeoffs.
How Message Queues Work: Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS Compared
A deep-dive into message queue internals for senior engineers. Covers what problems queues actually solve, how Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS differ architecturally, TypeScript producer and consumer examples for each, and a concrete decision framework for choosing between them.
Server Components vs Client Components: The Mental Model That Actually Helps
Most explanations of React Server Components focus on syntax without building the right mental model. This article explains the rendering boundary as a serialization boundary, what can and cannot cross it, composition patterns, and common production mistakes.
Building AI Agents That Actually Work in Production
The gap between a demo AI agent and a production-ready one is wider than most teams expect. Covers architecture patterns for tool use and memory, error handling strategies, guardrails, evaluation, and the failure modes that kill agents in the real world.
RAG Pipelines in Production: Lessons from Real Deployments
Most RAG tutorials stop at the happy path. This guide covers chunking strategies, embedding model selection, hybrid search, reranking, prompt construction, evaluation metrics, and the operational failure modes that only show up once you are handling real traffic and real data.
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Cloudflare Workers
A practical guide to zero-downtime deployments on Cloudflare Workers, covering the V8 isolate deploy model, in-flight request handling, database migration strategies using expand-contract, Durable Object migrations, canary deployments with custom routing, feature flags at the edge, rollback strategies, and deploy health monitoring.
When to Build vs. Buy: A Framework for Startups
A practical decision framework for startup CTOs and founders choosing between custom code and off-the-shelf tools, covering total cost of ownership, integration debt, vendor lock-in, the build trap, and when custom software is actually a competitive advantage.
Database Sharding Strategies Explained with Real Examples
A comprehensive guide to database sharding for engineers scaling beyond a single instance, covering shard key selection, range-based and hash-based partitioning, cross-shard queries, consistent hashing, resharding, and the operational complexity each pattern introduces.
Event-Driven Architecture: When to Use It and When Not To
A practical guide to event-driven architecture for senior engineers covering pub/sub, event sourcing, and CQRS patterns, with real tradeoffs around eventual consistency, debugging challenges, idempotency, broker selection, and a concrete decision framework for when EDA earns its complexity.
Edge Computing with Cloudflare Workers: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to building on Cloudflare Workers, covering the V8 isolate mental model, key storage primitives (KV, Durable Objects, D1, R2, Queues), real use cases like API gateways, auth, image processing, and caching, along with performance characteristics and production patterns.