You don’t truly understand distributed systems until your app “works perfectly”… and then breaks the moment you scale it.
Okay… what did they sacrifice?
Event-Driven User Notifications with Supabase, Webhooks, and Next.js (No Edge Functions Needed)
Stop sending notifications for users who never confirm their email. This guide walks through a clean, event-driven architecture using Supabase, Postgres triggers, and Next.js webhooks—no edge functions required.
You don’t scale by upgrading your server forever. You scale by splitting your data across machines.
You don’t become a tech lead overnight. One day you’re coding, the next day you’re making decisions, aligning people, and carrying responsibility no one formally gave you. This article breaks down the messy, human side of that transition—and why it’s harder than it looks.
GitHub Is Quietly Redefining AppSec with AI — And That Should Make You Rethink Your Workflow
GitHub’s latest move into AI-powered application security isn’t just another feature drop—it’s a shift toward proactive, developer-first security. And honestly, it might change how we write code every day.
Most profile pages are either too basic or unnecessarily complex. Here’s a clean, scalable approach using Supabase and Next.js that actually feels good to build—and use.
If I design things well enough, my system will behave predictably.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications Chapter 9 Consistency & Consensus: Getting Systems to Agree (Good Luck With That)
Distributed systems don’t just store data—they argue about what’s true. Chapter 9 breaks down how systems reach agreement (or fail trying), why consistency is hard, and how consensus algorithms keep everything from falling apart.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
No Mailchimp. No overengineering. Just a clean, event-driven newsletter system that works.
Your system doesn’t break when you deploy it. It breaks when old data meets new code. That’s the uncomfortable reality of software: data outlives everything. You can rewrite your frontend. You can refactor your backend. You can even replace your database. But your data? It sticks around quietly waiting to expose every bad decision you made six months ago.
Choosing the right API paradigm can make or break your system. Here’s a deep dive into REST, RPC, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs—and how to pick the right one.
Your beautiful data model eventually turns into… bytes on disk.
Batch processing doesn’t sound sexy.
“The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource… rather than something that was man-made.” — Alan Kay