Tag: [Ctrl + Build]

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• Contain the Mess: How I Use Design Patterns to Evolve Legacy Systems

  Published: 13 Jul, 2025 |  at  12:28 PM

  One of the most consistent contributors to success in the projects I’ve led has been the strategic use of design patterns.

• What My URL Shortener Taught Me About Malicious Traffic

  Published: 7 Jul, 2025 |  at  08:03 AM

  I’ve been hosting a small URL shortener for just over a year now. It’s one of those deceptively simple projects — a few routes, a small database, not much to it.

• The Latency Trap I Fell Into While Benchmarking Postgres

  Published: 30 Jun, 2025 |  at  11:17 AM

  Lately, I’ve been tinkering with a Postgres setup, mostly to see how much performance I could squeeze out of it. Nothing formal — just a curiosity-driven experiment to understand what’s possible with the right tuning.

• When a Custom In-Memory Engine Outran DuckDB and MS SQL

  Published: 23 Jun, 2025 |  at  03:24 PM

  A while back at a previous job, I spent some time working on a performance-critical query. The dataset wasn’t huge — somewhere between 10 and 50 million rows.