Writing
DevOps 7 min read
Alerting on infrastructure you built yourself
Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki are easy to wire up. Deciding what deserves a page at 2am is the actual hard part.
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Engineering 7m
Encrypting request payloads when HTTPS isn't the whole story
TLS protects data in transit, but it doesn't stop a payload from being read the moment it lands somewhere you didn't expect — logs, proxies, or a compromised intermediary.
0#Backend Development#Infrastructure as Code
DevOps 6m
Why I put PgBouncer in front of Postgres before I needed to
Connection pooling isn't a problem you feel until you have too many services opening connections at once — I wired it in early instead of waiting for the outage.
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Career 6m
Slow loading during peak season taught me why planning beats speed
The instinct when a system slows down is to fix it fast. What actually worked was slowing down first — to understand the problem before touching anything.
0#Backend Development#Database Design