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Engineering: Performance Architecture in Laravel with Redis
8+ hour, 14+ min ago (1319+ words) For many, development ends at the "it works" stage. Their success is measured by the number of closed Jira tickets and successfully deployed features. But for an engineer, this moment is only the beginning. The real work begins where code…...
How Small Postgres Metadata Tables Quietly Throttle Your Largest Queries | Hacker Noon
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (882+ words) A 10, 000-row device metadata table, rarely updated, sitting in the'FROM'clause of every dashboard query you run, can drag your entire time-series query path into the wrong performance tier. The time-series scan looks fast in'EXPLAIN. The join node is where the…...
Redis 8 in Practice: Building a Full-Stack Movie Library with Search, JSON, Time Series, and Real API Workloads
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1330+ words) I have used Redis in production for years. In a previous role, our stack used Redis 6 on Azure Cache for Redis with a Spring Boot backend and Jedis. It worked, but advanced capabilities often came with extra decisions around cost,…...
SQLite vs Redis for Telegram Bots: When to Use What
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (275+ words) SQLite vs Redis for Telegram Bots Choosing the wrong database can tank your bot's performance. SQLite: The Default Choice import sqlite3 conn = sqlite3. connect('bot. db') def get_user(chat_id: int) -> dict | None: row = conn. execute( 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE chat_id=?', (chat_id,) ). fetchone() return dict(row) if…...
The Token Bucket Algorithm: Build Server-Side API Rate Limiting in ~40 Lines
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (405+ words) Plenty of tutorials teach you how to survive someone else's rate limit with retries and backoff. Far fewer show you how to build one. If you run an API, you need rate limiting on your side too " to protect your…...
Htmx fragment caching with Accept-Version
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (408+ words) But when you start caching htmx fragments, a problem pops up: the style doesn't match the rest of your app. You might be rapidly iterating on the app and making adjustments (small or big) to its CSS. You quickly start…...
Redis with Fast API
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (304+ words) Fast API is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. The official fastapi-redis-sdk integrates Redis with Fast API without any boilerplate. It manages connection pools through the application lifespan and exposes caching as injectable dependencies, including HTTP-native…...
Stop BOLA Attacks: Securing Laravel APIs with ULIDs "
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (769+ words) The Auto-Increment Vulnerability When scaffolding a new database table at Smart Tech Devs, the default framework reflex is to use auto-incrementing integers for primary keys: $table->id(). In a closed system, this is fine. But the moment you expose your…...
WHOIS Is Broken in 2026. Here's the RDAP-First Drop-In That Actually Returns JSON
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1377+ words) WHOIS has been quietly dying for a decade, and most teams only noticed in the last eighteen months. If your pipeline still calls whois example. com and greps the output, it is failing silently on somewhere between 30% and 60% of lookups…...
How I Built a Production Ready Microservice Notification System with Nest JS, Redis, Bull Queues, and Docker
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (409+ words) I built a real time notification microservice with Nest JS, Redis, Postgre SQL, and Docker. When you are building a system that needs to deliver notifications instantly, a simple REST API is not enough. You need a system that is…...