Docker uses YAML. Rust uses TOML. REST APIs use JSON. Akka uses HOCON. Each format...
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Cloudflare Global Outage: How a Database Permission Change Broke the Internet
A 6-hour disruption took down ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Dropbox, and millions of sites worldwide - here's the technical breakdown and lessons for developers
On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a global outage that took down ChatGPT, X (formerly...
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Heartbeat: How Distributed Systems Know You're Still Alive
The simple signal that prevents your servers from becoming digital zombies
It’s 2 AM. Your database cluster is running smoothly. Then, one server freezes. Not a...
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Your JSON is Costing You Thousands: Why TOON Might Save Your Budget
How a simple format change can reduce LLM API costs by 40-50%
Companies using GPT for product recommendations are seeing monthly API bills reach $15,000-$20,000. Most of...
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Stop Blocking Your Paying Customers: Build a Smart Rate Limiter
How to protect your API without blocking legitimate users
It’s 3 AM. Your phone buzzes. “API is down.” You check the logs and see...
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How Shopify Powers 5 Million Stores Without Breaking a Sweat
Inside the architecture that handles Black Friday at massive scale
You launch a small t-shirt store on Shopify at 9 AM. By noon, you’ve made...
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WebTransport: The Protocol That Fixes What's Broken in WebSockets
How HTTP/3 and QUIC are changing real-time communication on the web
You’re building a multiplayer game. Players are chatting, shooting, moving around. Your WebSocket connection works...
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What Actually Happens When You Type a URL
From browser to backend server - the complete journey of a DNS request, with performance tricks and production insights
You type google.com into your browser. Half a second later, Google’s homepage appears. Between those...
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AWS US-East-1 Outage: How a Network Load Balancer Bug Took Down Half the Internet
A 12-hour disruption in AWS's largest region affected Netflix, Snapchat, Robinhood, and millions of users worldwide - here's what went wrong and what developers can learn
On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced one of its most significant outages in...
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Postgres 18: The Release That Makes Databases Fast Again
Async I/O that's 3x faster, skip scans that actually work, and OAuth built-in - here's what this release means for your production systems
Last month, Postgres shipped version 18, and it’s packed with features that actually matter. While...
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Java 25 is Finally Here: The LTS Release That Changes Everything
Simplified syntax, faster performance, and memory savings - here's what 3 years of Java evolution brings to your codebase
September 2025. After three years of waiting, Java finally released its next Long-Term Support (LTS)...
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How Ticket Booking Systems Handle 50,000 People Fighting for One Seat
Inside the architecture that powers BookMyShow, Ticketmaster, and what happened during the Taylor Swift meltdown
November 2022, 14 million Taylor Swift fans logged into Ticketmaster at the exact same time....
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Hash Collisions: The Hidden Performance Killer in Your Code
Why your O(1) lookup just became O(n), and what you can do about it
December 28th, 2011. Web servers across the internet started crashing. PHP, Java, Python, Ruby applications...
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