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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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Fast in Dev, Slow API in Production: Fixing Your API
Backend Engineering · 8 min read
7 months ago

Fast in Dev, Slow API in Production: Fixing Your API

Your API feels instant on your laptop, then crawls the moment real users arrive. This beginner friendly tutorial explains why a fast API becomes a slow API in production, and walks you step by step through the fixes in PHP, Postgres, and the frontend.

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