Blogs

Technical writings and thoughts

Inside the Event Loop: Why Your Node Server Stalls Under Load

Jun 29, 2026• 6 min read

Express Middleware That Actually Scales: The Error Handling Playbook

Jun 26, 2026• 6 min read

Streaming Files in Node Without Blowing Your Memory Budget

Jun 23, 2026• 6 min read

Killing Node Servers Politely: Graceful Shutdown and Zero-Downtime Deploys

Jun 20, 2026• 6 min read

From console.log to Observability: Structured Logging That Pays Off

Jun 17, 2026• 7 min read

Why Your React App Re-Renders and How to Stop It

Jun 14, 2026• 6 min read

Choosing the Right State Management Pattern in React

Jun 11, 2026• 6 min read

Stop Fetching Data in useEffect: A Better Approach

Jun 8, 2026• 6 min read

Building a Secure MERN Authentication Flow With JWT

Jun 5, 2026• 6 min read

Taming React Forms: From Controlled Inputs to Schema Validation

Jun 2, 2026• 6 min read

Modeling Mongoose Schemas Without Regret

May 30, 2026• 6 min read

Why Your MongoDB Query Is Slow And How To Tell

May 27, 2026• 6 min read

The Aggregation Pipeline Is Just Unix Pipes For Data

May 24, 2026• 6 min read

Choosing Between SQL And NoSQL Without The Dogma

May 21, 2026• 6 min read

Connection Pooling Is The Setting That Saves Your Database

May 18, 2026• 6 min read

Stop Guessing: Reading Postgres Query Plans Like a Pro

May 15, 2026• 6 min read

Postgres Isolation Levels Explained Through Real Race Conditions

May 12, 2026• 6 min read

Designing Postgres Schemas in Prisma Without Painting Yourself Into a Corner

May 9, 2026• 6 min read

Caching With Redis When Cache Invalidation Is the Hard Part

May 6, 2026• 6 min read

Redis Is Not Just a Key-Value Store: The Data Structures You Are Ignoring

May 3, 2026• 6 min read

What Actually Happens When You Produce a Kafka Message

Apr 30, 2026• 6 min read

Splitting Work Without Losing Order: Consumer Groups Demystified

Apr 27, 2026• 6 min read

At-Least-Once Is Lying To You: Kafka Delivery Guarantees

Apr 24, 2026• 6 min read

Designing Services That Talk Through Events, Not Calls

Apr 21, 2026• 6 min read

Storing the Story, Not Just the State: Event Sourcing in Practice

Apr 18, 2026• 6 min read

Routing Messages the RabbitMQ Way: Exchanges, Queues, and Bindings

Apr 15, 2026• 6 min read

RabbitMQ or Kafka? Picking the Broker That Fits Your Workload

Apr 12, 2026• 6 min read

When Messages Go Bad: Dead Letter Queues and Poison Handling

Apr 9, 2026• 6 min read

Running Background Jobs in Node with BullMQ and Smart Retries

Apr 6, 2026• 6 min read

Process Once, Receive Many: Building Idempotent Consumers

Apr 3, 2026• 6 min read

What the TCP Three-Way Handshake Actually Negotiates

Mar 31, 2026• 6 min read

When Throwing Away Reliability Is the Right Call: UDP in Practice

Mar 28, 2026• 6 min read

How HTTP/2 Multiplexing Killed Head-of-Line Blocking at the App Layer

Mar 25, 2026• 6 min read

Inside the TLS Handshake: How HTTPS Earns Your Trust

Mar 22, 2026• 6 min read

From Hostname to IP: What Really Happens When You Resolve a Domain

Mar 19, 2026• 6 min read

Pushing Bytes in Real Time: Socket.IO Beyond the Echo Demo

Mar 16, 2026• 6 min read

When JSON Is Too Slow: A Backend Engineer's Tour of gRPC

Mar 13, 2026• 6 min read

Spreading the Load: How Backends Decide Which Server Gets Your Request

Mar 10, 2026• 6 min read

Nginx in Front: Turning One Public Port Into Many Services

Mar 7, 2026• 6 min read

The Front Door and the Phone Book: API Gateways and Service Discovery

Mar 4, 2026• 6 min read

Shrinking Your Node Image From 1GB to 80MB

Mar 1, 2026• 6 min read

Your Whole Stack in One Command With Compose

Feb 26, 2026• 6 min read

From Git Push to Live Server Without Touching SSH

Feb 23, 2026• 6 min read

Stop Committing .env Files: A Saner Way to Handle Secrets

Feb 20, 2026• 6 min read

Why Your Server Breaks at Two Instances and How to Fix It

Feb 17, 2026• 6 min read

Why Your Webhook Endpoint Trusts Forged Payloads (And How HMAC Fixes It)

Feb 14, 2026• 6 min read

Rate Limiting Is Not a Feature, It Is Your First Line of Defense

Feb 11, 2026• 6 min read

bcrypt or argon2: Picking the Right Password Hash in 2026

Feb 8, 2026• 6 min read

The Monolith You Have Beats the Microservices You Can't Operate Yet

Feb 5, 2026• 6 min read

Stop Stuffing the Prompt: How RAG and Vector Search Actually Work

Feb 2, 2026• 6 min read