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Long form thinking on architecture, debugging, AI in production, and the messy intersection of code and business. The trade-offs, failures, and decisions that do not fit into tutorials.

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How a Hidden N+1 Query Slowed API by 6x and the Exact Steps I Used to Fix It
Backend Engineering · 17 min read
4 months ago

How a Hidden N+1 Query Slowed API by 6x and the Exact Steps I Used to Fix It

The API wasn’t crashing. Nothing looked broken. But production response times quietly became six times slower. This is a real-world breakdown of how a hidden N+1 query slipped through reviews, how I proved it in Laravel, and the exact steps that fixed it permanently.

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How I Built an AI-Assisted Log Analysis System to Catch Production Issues Before Users Did
Backend Engineering · 9 min read
4 months ago

How I Built an AI-Assisted Log Analysis System to Catch Production Issues Before Users Did

Logs were there. Alerts were there. Incidents still slipped through. This guide explains how I combined traditional logging with AI-driven pattern analysis to proactively detect production issues and reduce firefighting.

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Why OFFSET Pagination Broke Our API at Scale (And How Cursor Pagination Fixed It)
Backend Engineering · 7 min read
6 months ago

Why OFFSET Pagination Broke Our API at Scale (And How Cursor Pagination Fixed It)

OFFSET pagination broke our API at scale, causing slow queries and latency spikes. Learn how cursor pagination fixed performance without breaking clients.

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Our Cache Made the App Slower. The Redis Cache Mistake I’ll Never Repeat
Backend Engineering · 15 min read
6 months ago

Our Cache Made the App Slower. The Redis Cache Mistake I’ll Never Repeat

We added caching to speed things up. Latency dropped, then quietly got worse. This is a real production bug breakdown of how a Redis cache invalidation mistake slowed critical pages and how I fixed it without rewriting the backend.

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How I Eliminated Memory Leaks in a High-Traffic Node.js API That Everyone Thought Was “Stateless”
Backend Engineering · 14 min read
6 months ago

How I Eliminated Memory Leaks in a High-Traffic Node.js API That Everyone Thought Was “Stateless”

The API didn’t crash immediately. It slowed down gradually, then fell over under load. The problem wasn’t traffic. It was invisible memory retention hiding inside “clean” Node.js code.

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