Thoughts on software development, technology, and more.
Move heavy work out of HTTP requests with BullMQ + Redis: producers enqueue jobs, workers process with retries/backoff, concurrency limits, and observability — with real flows like email delivery and hourly reconciliation.
A deep-dive into snapshot reporting architecture — why we offload report generation to Holistics, store exports in S3, and serve them through a lean API layer instead of hammering the production database.
A practical walkthrough of building a drop-in <script> that injects a button + iframe chat UI, configurable via data-* attributes, and powered by a Next.js route.
Design a production-grade URL shortener: code generation, collision handling, caching, expiration, analytics, and scaling to millions of redirects/day.