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Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them
Sep 10 18m

Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

Athreya aka Maneshwar
security
Sep 10 3m

The Policy Was Right. The Data Wasn’t.

Security infrastructure looks clean in architecture diagrams. Production is messier. Stale data,...

Anusha Mukka
backend
Sep 14 5m

The Order That Got Charged Twice - A Race Condition Post-Mortem

The Symptom Over the past 48 hours, the support team has received 6 tickets from customers...

Michael Ajayi
java
Sep 13 5m

The Wake-Up Call: Why I Decided to Become an AI Backend Engineer

A year ago, I was the senior engineer on the team. Today, a junior with Copilot can match my output...

Sham Prakash K
The benchmark everyone cited for "fastest backend" was archived in March, and the reason is the interesting part
Sep 14 6m

The benchmark everyone cited for "fastest backend" was archived in March, and the reason is the interesting part

Ask which backend is fastest and somebody shows you a bar chart. For twelve years that chart came...

Alex
python
Sep 12 11m

Under the Hood of FastAPI’s DI Engine: Signature Reflection, Execution Graphs, and Async Exit Stacks

Dependency Injection (DI) in modern web frameworks is often treated as syntactic magic. In FastAPI,...

Niraj Matere
architecture
Sep 9 12m

System Design: Building a Notification Service for 50 Million Users

A complete system design walkthrough — from blank page to production architecture — covering fan-out, multi-channel delivery, rate limiting, retry logic, and the trade-offs engineers get wrong in interviews and production.

Avaneesh Yadav
mysql
Sep 12 8m

A Straightforward Guide for MVCC in MySQL

In this article, I'll walk through how InnoDB (MySQL's default storage engine) works across different...

Eyo
backend
Sep 13 5m

My Journey Contributing to Django REST Framework

Section 1: The Bug That Sat Untouched for Over a Year In September 2026, I merged my...

Majid Khazaei
architecture
Sep 8 24m

# Architecting a Zero-Monolith P2P Protocol: How SIAR Solves Versioning, Capabilities, and Backpressure in Rust

By the SIAR Engineering Team Target Platforms: Substack / Dev.to | Technical Deep-Dive Series: Part 1...

Irshad Ali
Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them
Sep 10 18m

Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

Athreya aka Maneshwar
security
Sep 10 3m

The Policy Was Right. The Data Wasn’t.

Security infrastructure looks clean in architecture diagrams. Production is messier. Stale data,...

Anusha Mukka
backend
Sep 14 5m

The Order That Got Charged Twice - A Race Condition Post-Mortem

The Symptom Over the past 48 hours, the support team has received 6 tickets from customers...

Michael Ajayi
java
Sep 13 5m

The Wake-Up Call: Why I Decided to Become an AI Backend Engineer

A year ago, I was the senior engineer on the team. Today, a junior with Copilot can match my output...

Sham Prakash K
The benchmark everyone cited for "fastest backend" was archived in March, and the reason is the interesting part
Sep 14 6m

The benchmark everyone cited for "fastest backend" was archived in March, and the reason is the interesting part

Ask which backend is fastest and somebody shows you a bar chart. For twelve years that chart came...

Alex
python
Sep 12 11m

Under the Hood of FastAPI’s DI Engine: Signature Reflection, Execution Graphs, and Async Exit Stacks

Dependency Injection (DI) in modern web frameworks is often treated as syntactic magic. In FastAPI,...

Niraj Matere
architecture
Sep 9 12m

System Design: Building a Notification Service for 50 Million Users

A complete system design walkthrough — from blank page to production architecture — covering fan-out, multi-channel delivery, rate limiting, retry logic, and the trade-offs engineers get wrong in interviews and production.

Avaneesh Yadav
mysql
Sep 12 8m

A Straightforward Guide for MVCC in MySQL

In this article, I'll walk through how InnoDB (MySQL's default storage engine) works across different...

Eyo
backend
Sep 13 5m

My Journey Contributing to Django REST Framework

Section 1: The Bug That Sat Untouched for Over a Year In September 2026, I merged my...

Majid Khazaei
architecture
Sep 8 24m

# Architecting a Zero-Monolith P2P Protocol: How SIAR Solves Versioning, Capabilities, and Backpressure in Rust

By the SIAR Engineering Team Target Platforms: Substack / Dev.to | Technical Deep-Dive Series: Part 1...

Irshad Ali