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Connect Redis, Postgres, and MySQL to Serverless Apps Over HTTPS
16+ hour, 36+ min ago (351+ words) Serverless and edge runtimes are great until your app needs a normal TCP database connection. Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno Deploy, and many other HTTP-first runtimes do not let you open raw TCP sockets directly. That creates an awkward choice:…...
Building a Driver-Based Cooldown Manager for Laravel
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (20+ words) Most Laravel applications eventually need some form of cooldown. Not request throttling—but actual... Tagged with laravel, php, opensource, webdev....
Prompt Caching Is an Architectural Pattern, Not a Cost Optimization
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (493+ words) One question I ask during almost every AI architecture review is surprisingly simple: What part of this prompt actually changes between requests? Most of the time, the answer is "almost nothing." The system prompt is identical. Tool definitions are identical....
The Complete Redbelly EligibilitySDK Integration Guide: Widget to Backend to On-Chain
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1362+ words) A verified, end-to-end guide to the Redbelly Network EligibilitySDK: frontend widget, backend verifier, on-chain permission hooks, React and Next.js App Router examples, integration patterns and a full error reference. Tagged with web3, react, nextjs, blockchain....
Why I chose PGMQ over Redis for IoT sensor ingestion
4+ day, 43+ min ago (293+ words) In my last post, I introduced CultivatorsLedger — a local-first cultivation telemetry platform built on Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Docker. One of the first architectural decisions I made was how to handle sensor data ingestion. In a grow environment, WiFi is…...
Day 3 of 30: Caching, and Why Invalidation Really Is That Hard
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (388+ words) Day 1 was the big picture (client-server, scaling, latency vs. throughput). Day 2 went into databases (SQL vs. NoSQL, replication, sharding). Today's topic was one I thought I already understood: caching. Turns out I only understood the easy 20% of it. The core…...
Day 64: ClickHouse® Query Cache – Configuration, Best Practices, and Common Pitfalls
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (564+ words) Analytical platforms often execute the same SQL queries repeatedly. Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards refresh every few minutes, scheduled reports run on fixed intervals, and monitoring systems continuously request identical metrics. Recomputing these results every time consumes CPU resources and increases…...
Connection Pooling: A Small Feature with a Big Impact
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (28+ words) Modern applications rely heavily on databases, but establishing a database connection is an expensive operation. Every new connection requires …...
Building a Production Ready Cache to Prevent Cache Stampede in Go
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (155+ words) How Single Flight Prevents Duplicate Work in Go (And Why Every Backend Engineer Should Know It) Part 2 of the Cache Stampede …...
High-Performance Laravel: Revolutionizing Speed and Scalability with Swoole and Octane
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (31+ words) In the world of modern web development, performance is no longer just a luxury — it is a core requirement. As …...