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NATS JetStream vs Kafka for Teams That Do Not Need Kafka's Scale

Backend

July 20269 min read

NATS JetStream vs Kafka for Teams That Do Not Need Kafka's Scale

Kafka is the reflexive answer to "we need a message log," but for workloads under a million messages per second, NATS JetStream gives you durable streams and solid delivery guarantees with a fraction of the operational cost.

Request-Scoped Providers in NestJS: DI Gotchas

Backend

July 20269 min read

Request-Scoped Providers in NestJS: DI Gotchas

Request-scoped providers look like a one-line fix, but scope bubbles up your whole DI graph and costs latency. Here is how it works and why I reach for AsyncLocalStorage first.

End-to-End Type Safety with openapi-typescript

Backend

July 20269 min read

End-to-End Type Safety with openapi-typescript

Delete your hand-written API interfaces and generate them from the OpenAPI spec instead — how openapi-typescript and openapi-fetch give you a typed client and catch backend drift at compile time.

Distributed Tracing in NestJS with OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation

Backend

July 20269 min read

Distributed Tracing in NestJS with OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation

How I added distributed tracing to a NestJS API with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation — the SDK setup, context propagation, and exporting spans to a collector.

OpenTofu vs Terraform: Migrating After the License Change

DevOps

July 20269 min read

OpenTofu vs Terraform: Migrating After the License Change

After HashiCorp's BSL relicense, is switching to OpenTofu worth it? A hands-on look at compatibility, state, the registry, and the actual migration commands.

PgBouncer Pooling Modes: Session vs Transaction vs Statement

Backend

July 20269 min read

PgBouncer Pooling Modes: Session vs Transaction vs Statement

The three PgBouncer pooling modes, the prepared-statement trap that bit me in transaction mode, and how to actually size pool_size for a real app.

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