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DevOpsApril 20269 min read

GitHub Actions Caching Strategies That Actually Cut CI Minutes

Dependency caches, Docker layer caches, and build caches each fail differently. Here are the GitHub Actions caching patterns that halved my CI times.

DevOpsApril 20269 min read

Uptime Kuma: Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring That Just Works

Uptime Kuma replaces paid uptime services with one Docker container: 90+ notification channels, status pages, and checks for everything you run on a VPS.

Software DevelopmentApril 202610 min read

Event-Driven Architecture: When NOT to Use It

Event-driven architecture solves real problems, but it can quietly wreck a small system. Honest decision criteria from an ERP built the boring way first.

BackendApril 202611 min read

PostgreSQL Indexing in Practice: B-tree, GIN, and Partial Indexes

A practical PostgreSQL indexing guide: when B-tree, GIN, BRIN, and partial indexes win, how to read EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and the real numbers behind a 170x speedup.

BackendApril 202610 min read

Idempotency Keys: Designing APIs That Survive Retries

Double-charged payments start with a timeout and a retry. How to design idempotent endpoints with idempotency keys, from storage schema to client behavior.

BackendApril 202610 min read

Reliable Background Jobs with BullMQ and NestJS

Retries, exponential backoff, dead-letter queues, and monitoring: a production blueprint for background jobs with BullMQ, Redis, and NestJS that survives bad days.

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