When I First Started Building Spiders I used to test my spiders by running them over and over. Each time I tweaked a selector, I’d run the spider again, hit th...
Zero latency is just latency we haven’t measured yet. Every few months someone asks: > How do I build an app that works worldwide with zero latency and minimum...
HTTP Response Headers for Backend Developers The silent guardians of security, performance, and user experience. In this guide we’ll explore the most critical...
Initial Approach When I first started integrating external APIs into my projects, my approach was simple: Need data? Call the API. It felt clean and logical—un...
Overview With the current solar maximum, I added aurora forecasting features to my iOS weather app, Xasteria. Instead of fetching raw text files from NOAA, I l...
Decision guide Is your data ephemeral can be regenerated or lost? - YES → Use ElastiCache ≈ $12 / month for cache.t4g.micro - NO → Use MemoryDB ≈ $25 +/ month,...
The Problem In the fiercely competitive e‑commerce sector, the speed and reliability of database systems are non‑negotiable. Our client, a burgeoning online re...
If your system is a party, your microservices are the guests, and your clients are… well… clients. What an API Gateway Does An API Gateway is the person at the...
Article URL: https://danburzo.ro/http-caching-refresher/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368616 Points: 12 Comments: 0...
Query Handling When a query is sent to a ThingsDB node, the node first checks its own status. - If the node is in AWAY mode, it does not process the request lo...
Background When I inherited a Laravel application that was struggling with performance, the user dashboards were loading related data such as orders, customers...
Caching in React & Next.js – A Friendly Guide You ever open an app and it feels instant, while another one takes forever to load? That difference you feel is n...
