Don't Buy the Shelf
Last week I was meal prepping — chicken, rice, broccoli, the usual rotation while trying to shed some pounds — and somewhere between chopping and portioning I caught myself doing what I always do: tur
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Developing for scale
What i learnt building and scaling a SaaS - including my mistakes and general stupid choices I made.
"But HubSpot never gave me problems"
Yesterday I had a nice learning opportunity. Story time. I was summoned by my business partners to a meeting over a 14 seconds downtime the Hetzner VPS had, which caused some APIs to shoot out 500 res
Jul 25, 20264 min read2Queue Management Without The Distributed System Headache: Why I Built Bullshoot
Everyone loves to throw a Redis instance at their backend problems the second they need asynchronous processing. It’s the industry default. Need to send an email? Redis. Need to generate a PDF? Redis.
Jul 14, 20263 min read20Stop Coding Deduplication: Make MySQL Destroy Your Duplicate Data For You
Goal: Preventing duplicate entries in a MySQL database. Sample Stack: NodeJS Creating the dedup mechanism We’ve all been there. You’re building a bulk import feature, everything works beautifully
Jul 8, 20264 min readOrchestrating Autonomous QA Agents Without Blowing Your Claude Budget
If you let LLM-based QA agents loose on a staging environment with a naive while (true) execution loop, your next cloud bill will give your CFO a heart attack and you on them streets. Autonomous QA te
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