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Monolith First, Microservices Later: The Architecture Decision That Saves Startups
Most startups don't fail because of a monolith. They fail because they never build something people actually want. Stop Building for Scale Before You Have Users If you've spent time on YouTube, Reddit
Jul 7, 20264 min read3
Why MCP Is Becoming the Standard Layer for AI Integrations
AI does not need another model. It needs a standard way to connect models to tools, data, and workflows. That is the problem the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is trying to solve. It gives AI systems
Jun 29, 20265 min read4
Why Your Background Jobs Are Lying to You
Most developers learn background jobs through a deceptively simple mental model: Put a task into a queue. A worker picks it up. The task gets executed. That’s it. At least, that’s what we tell ou
Jun 23, 20267 min read4
Designing a Real-Time Chat System at Scale
Most developers underestimate how difficult messaging systems actually are. A basic chat demo with WebSockets can be built in a few hours. A production-grade messaging platform like WhatsApp, Telegram
Jun 15, 20269 min read56
Why Good Abstractions Make Debugging Harder in Real-World Systems
Good abstractions help when they reduce the search space and make ownership clear. They make debugging harder when they duplicate state, hide propagation rules, and let several layers stay locally cor
May 19, 202617 min read
Client-Side Caching with LLMs: A Layered Decision Architecture for Cache Strategy under Uncertainty
Client-side caching is commonly implemented as a storage optimization layer using TTLs and invalidation rules. In practice, caching behaves as a decision system under uncertainty, where correctness de
May 4, 20265 min read132

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