Software Engineering

Bloom filters — probabilistic, memory-efficient, and surprisingly useful

Data structures you use every day without thinking about them, and the ones you should

How I use Cursor and Claude Code in my day-to-day work, and why the split matters

The OWASP Top 10 for 2025, explained with code examples and practical fixes

The eight fallacies of distributed computing, and why everything you built in this series violates at least one

Reverse proxies, API gateways, and the layers between your users and your code

Sessions, JWTs, OAuth, and SSO — what they are and when to use each

Database indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and why one CREATE INDEX beat five new pods

REST API design patterns that save your future self from debugging nightmares

Load balancing algorithms, L4 vs L7, and why your requests end up where they do

Rate limiting algorithms, layered protection, and why your API needs a velvet rope

Caching, Redis, and the art of not hitting your database

A practical guide to message queues for developers who nod along when someone says ’let’s use Kafka'

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