How to Reduce Incident Costs with a Unified Change Timeline
Learn how recording every production change in one queryable timeline cuts diagnosis time, lowers MTTR, and helps reduce incident costs without heavy approvals.
13 min read
Archive
All articles
304 published
OpenAPI Contract First: Designing APIs Before Writing Code
Treat your OpenAPI description as a reviewed, versioned contract: design it first, generate types, and use CI and contract tests to stop drift.
15 min read
Nx Cache Invalidation: Why Your Cache Misses and How to Fix It
Learn how Nx hashes task inputs, why cache misses and false hits happen, and how to fix them with named inputs, env inputs, and correct outputs.
15 min read
Backend Hosting Options for Small Teams: VPS vs PaaS vs Kubernetes
Compare VPS, PaaS and Kubernetes for a small backend by operational burden, failure recovery and total hosting cost, including the engineer time each one takes.
12 min read
Deployment Strategies Compared: Rolling, Blue-Green and Canary
Compare rolling updates, blue-green deployment and canary releases by blast radius, rollback speed, capacity cost and compatibility needs, and learn when to use each.
13 min read
gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL: Choosing an API Style per Boundary
Pick gRPC, REST, or GraphQL per boundary, not per company: how each works, where each breaks, error models, and a checklist for internal vs public APIs.
13 min read
The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Reliable Events from Your Database
Learn how the transactional outbox pattern solves the dual write problem, how to build polling or CDC relays, and how to handle duplicates and ordering.
17 min read
How to Reduce Duplicated Code Across Services Without Tight Coupling
Learn when to reduce duplicated code across services, how each reuse mechanism couples teams, and how to design, own and migrate shared libraries safely.
13 min read
Bun vs Node.js for Servers: Compatibility, Speed and Migration
Compare Bun vs Node.js for server workloads: engine differences, compatibility risks, honest benchmarking, operations tooling and a staged migration plan.
16 min read
How to Speed Up GitHub Actions: Caching, Concurrency and Matrix
Speed up GitHub Actions by caching dependencies, cancelling superseded runs with concurrency groups, and shaping matrix jobs to save CI minutes.
14 min read
Bun Backend Development: What It Is and When to Use It
Learn how the Bun runtime works, how bun vs node compares on the backend, and how to adopt Bun step by step: tooling first, then the runtime.
13 min read
Backend Monitoring Basics: Metrics, Logs, Traces and SLOs
Learn what metrics, logs and traces each answer, how to tie them together with trace IDs, and how to drive alerting from SLOs instead of raw signals.
13 min read