Personal thoughts, tutorials, and technical insights.
How an engineering student applied system-level optimization—from TCP slow start to WebP encoding—to drastically improve load times and achieve a perfect performance score.
Read Story →Learn how to secure your webhooks against spoofing attacks by implementing best practices such as HMAC. (Webhook Part 2)
Read Story →Learn why constant API polling overworks your system and how webhooks solve this problem using an event-driven approach. (Part 1)
Read Story →Learn why your app crashes due to unexpected API data types and how Zod, a TypeScript-first validation library, prevents runtime errors by enforcing data structure at runtime.
Read Story →Learn how to host your static website for free using Amazon S3. Explore what a static website is and why S3 is the perfect solution for simple, cost-effective hosting.
Read Story →Dive into the architecture of Node.js servers, exploring the event loop, asynchronous I/O, and event-driven design for scalable web applications.
Read Story →Explore the various Amazon S3 storage classes and lifecycle policies to optimize costs, ensure high durability, and manage data effectively.
Read Story →Feeling overwhelmed by AWS security? Start here! This guide breaks down AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) into simple concepts, best practices, and a hands-on demo to secure your cloud environment.
Read Story →Step-by-step guide to building a Node.js API using Express and handling data efficiently.
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