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With 12+ years specializing in database systems and backend engineering, when I built my first production API in 2014, I didn’t implement rate limiting. Within two weeks, a poorly written client script made 47 million requests in a single day, crashing our database and costing us $8,000 in …
Read more →From years of professional experience in this field, in my 15 years building and maintaining computers for both consumers and enterprise clients, overheating is the most common hardware problem I see—and ironically, it’s one of the easiest to prevent and fix. Last month alone, I saved three …
Read more →From years of professional experience in this field, in my 10 years supporting enterprise IT environments with over 5,000 devices, Bluetooth problems account for approximately 15% of helpdesk tickets. The frustrating truth? About 85% of these issues have simple solutions that take under 10 minutes …
Read more →Drawing on over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture, small businesses today face mounting concerns about their dependence on Big Tech platforms. Rising subscription costs, unpredictable policy changes, data privacy concerns, and vendor lock-in create real risks for …
Read more →Drawing on over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture, as systems architects, we often find ourselves pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with virtualization and emulation. While hardware-accelerated virtualization like KVM gets a lot of attention, …
Read more →After a decade of full-stack development across various industries, i learned the importance of backups the hard way in 2012 when my laptop’s hard drive died with three years of family photos and my graduate thesis. I lost everything—a mistake that cost me hundreds of hours trying to recover …
Read more →Drawing on over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture, the recent buzz on Hacker News about “Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden” has rightly captured the attention of systems architects and developers like us. It’s a compelling …
Read more →Drawing on over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture, when I started working with distributed systems fifteen years ago, one of my first production incidents was caused by clock drift. A simple five-second difference between servers caused duplicate transactions, …
Read more →After a decade of full-stack development across various industries, alright, fellow tech enthusiasts, gather ‘round! Who here remembers the thrill of squeezing every last drop of performance out of ancient hardware? Or perhaps you’ve been in that nail-biting situation, staring at a …
Read more →Drawing on over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture, after spending 8 years as a network administrator supporting over 2,000 users, I’ve resolved countless DNS problems. The good news? Most DNS issues have simple fixes that take less than 5 minutes. Just last …
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