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I Built the Same App in Go and Rust — One Was a Total Disaster

As a backend developer with a passion for building performant and scalable systems, I’ve always been intrigued by the debate surrounding…

Apr 28

I Built the Same App in Go and Rust — One Was a Total Disaster

Apr 28

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We Replaced REST With gRPC-Web in Go — Here’s How It Went

When we started building our Go backend, REST felt like the obvious choice. It was familiar, easy to integrate, and had solid tooling. But…

Apr 17

We Replaced REST With gRPC-Web in Go — Here’s How It Went

Apr 17

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I Built a Go CLI Tool in One Night — It’s Now Our Team’s Favorite

It was 8 PM on a Thursday, and I was staring at my terminal, frustrated. Our team was drowning in repetitive tasks: generating boilerplate…

Apr 28

I Built a Go CLI Tool in One Night — It’s Now Our Team’s Favorite

Apr 28

Why Do Performance Tests Never Match Production? The Load Testing Delusion

Ah, the classic riddle of software development: “Our performance tests passed with flying colors, so why is production crumbling under…

Jul 1

Why Do Performance Tests Never Match Production? The Load Testing Delusion

Jul 1

Design Patterns Make Code Worse — Unless You Do This

Design patterns aren’t magic. They don’t write clean code. In fact, they often make it worse.

Jun 14

Design Patterns Make Code Worse — Unless You Do This

Jun 14

Before vs After: How Four Patterns Transformed Our Code from Chaos to Clarity

We didn’t rewrite our system. We just rewrote how we thought about our system. Four patterns — each deceptively simple — turned our…

Jun 14

Before vs After: How Four Patterns Transformed Our Code from Chaos to Clarity

Jun 14

The 3 Design Patterns That Quietly Fixed 80% of Our Tech Debt

When abstraction isn’t the enemy, it’s the solution.

Jun 14

The 3 Design Patterns That Quietly Fixed 80% of Our Tech Debt

Jun 14

JavaScript Developers: Stop Pretending Node.js is Fast When Rust Exists

Web Dev’s Dirty Little Secret

Jun 12

JavaScript Developers: Stop Pretending Node.js is Fast When Rust Exists

Jun 12

Why Kotlin Multiplatform is Already Beating Swift for Cross-Platform

How They Handled the Most Dramatic User Growth in Tech History

Jun 12

Why Kotlin Multiplatform is Already Beating Swift for Cross-Platform

Jun 12

Uber’s Schemaless Journey: Building a NoSQL Database for Trillion Operations

In 2013, Uber was growing fast — faster than PostgreSQL could scale with it. What started as a ridesharing app built on a monolithic…

Jun 9

Uber’s Schemaless Journey: Building a NoSQL Database for Trillion Operations

Jun 9

CaffeinatedCoder

CaffeinatedCoder

I write code, drink coffee, and sometimes regret both. Exploring the chaos of modern software, one post at a time.

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