Don't get me started on Microservices
2026-05-04
Why do people get this architecture so wrong?
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Video Streaming with Laravel
2026-04-25
How I built Samson Media — and why, for me, it beats Jellyfin.
One relational database to rule the all
2026-04-24
You can do everything in a relational database, saving a fortune on your cloud bills.
Logging to your database is worth it
2026-04-23
It powered a one-click view of my whole request pipeline. The outage was a missing retention policy, not the idea.
Zero-downtime deploys with blue-green on Kubernetes
2026-03-24
RollingUpdate is fine until you want to test before you switch.
How to get microservices right from the start
2025-05-16
If you genuinely have an org-scaling problem, here's a layout that works from day one.
You never are going to need it
2024-12-27
YAGNI: stop building for a future that never arrives.
Pick one: Works, Fast, or Right
2024-10-11
The trade-off every engineer pretends they can dodge.
JWT it down
2024-03-08
How to distribute authorization