Connection Pooling and Why It Matters
Most of the worst production incidents I have managed in fintech did not start with a dramatic failure. They started quietly, with a service that was perfectly...
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Tagged #performance
3 articles tagged #performance.
Database Indexing for Application Developers
Most application developers treat the database as a black box. They write a query, it returns rows, and as long as the page loads in under a second nobody asks...
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Caching Strategies Every Backend Engineer Should Know
Caching is one of those topics that sounds simple until you ship it. Add a cache, serve a few requests from memory, watch your latency graph drop, and call it...
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