Why Your Postgres Table Keeps Growing Even Though You're Deleting Rows
A while back I noticed something odd. A table with a modest number of rows was taking far more disk space than it should. SELECT count(*) said one t…
Tech news from the best sources
A while back I noticed something odd. A table with a modest number of rows was taking far more disk space than it should. SELECT count(*) said one t…
A .NET API can feel perfectly fine with a little traffic and then start struggling as the app grows. Queries get slower, outgoing HTTP calls hold on…
GridMind is a spreadsheet where every cell is its own research agent. You type "Stripe" in a row, "who is the CEO?" in a column, hit Run, and an age…
ACH Return Codes Explained: R01 to R85 and How to Handle Them ACH Return Codes Explained: R01 to R85 and How to Handle Them When an ACH transaction…
By Isaac Muthui, CEO, Tamalaki Business Network Ltd. Originally published at factoraerp.com . Most factory software treats a measurement as a number…
One match day, 1,249 finished matches across the data set. The daily export landed with 546 standings rows, 200 scorer lines and 418 rows of match s…
Short answer: trigger one idempotent sweep on a schedule, enqueue one small cleanup job per tenant or partition, and let a rate-limited worker own r…
Email verification looks like a small feature: create a token, send a message, and accept the token when the user clicks it. In a production backend…
Imagine your company has 50 employees and 80 IT assets, including laptops, monitors, and smartphones. An employee leaves the organisation. HR confir…
We run a small fleet of Python workers on top of Redis Streams. One night, a single long-running job quietly took the entire interactive pool offlin…
The newest deploy is almost never the cause. So I gave on-call a graph. (On-call Brain, Graph Hacks by WeMakeDevs x FalkorDB) It's 3 am. Your phone…
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Ever felt like your application is constantly begging the database for the same piece of data over and over? I remember…
I recently worked on a project called APIWatch using Python and WSO2 API Manager. It is a small monitoring tool that reads API traffic logs and help…
How we built Strata, a company brain on FalkorDB that notices when a document has become false, for Graph Hacks. Code: https://github.com/manasdutta…
problem statement in a typical microservice, each instance opens its own pg client pool. during a traffic spike the aggregate connection count can e…
The problem A dependency blips for 400ms — a deploy, a GC pause, a brief network partition, doesn't matter which. Every client with an in-flight req…
Most developers using terminal coding agents like Claude Code , OpenCode , Codex , or Cursor end up running an LLM router in the background to handl…
Pixiv is wonderful. It's also, architecturally, a black box you can't learn from. So I built my own illustration community platform — Lumiina — live…
Problem statement When you change a function-calling or Structured Outputs schema after users have active conversations, older turns and replayed to…
Banks flag suspicious transactions all day. The hard part isn't the flag—it's seeing what's behind it. Fraud rings can hide in relationships: accoun…
JSON is one of the most common formats used to exchange data between frontend applications, backend services, and APIs. It looks similar to a JavaSc…
Hey dev community! 👋🏻 I'm Seif, a software engineer with 4 years of experience who absolutely hates vibe-coding and prefers designing architecture b…
A 90-second upstream blip doesn't take you down. What your retries do in the ninety seconds after it ends does. We learned this the expensive way. A…
A while ago in a high-scale multi-tenant B2B SaaS platform, we ran a high-concurrency benchmark before launching an enterprise data portal. Everythi…
I once shipped a monitoring page that said LIVE in confident green letters. It stayed green for eleven days while the ingest job behind it had been…
The GCP account I remember most clearly had a billing problem nobody could locate Medium-sized SaaS company. Four GCP projects. Total monthly spend:…
When building a RESTful API, securing your endpoints is just as important as the business logic itself. While implementing JWT (JSON Web Tokens) in…
Payment bugs do not always originate from a missing patch or weak password. Some appear when two requests arrive almost simultaneously, a callback i…
A few weeks ago, I opened Cursor and gave Claude a single prompt: "Generate a modern task management dashboard with filtering, search, pagination, a…
Short answer: a travel itinerary planner needs a staged retrieval architecture with bounded access rules and source context attached to every answer…