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Production patterns for distributed systems, backend platforms, reliability, and engineering at scale.
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The Best Free Online Databases for Developers in 2026
A zero-fluff architectural guide to the best free cloud database tiers—evaluating Postgres, SQLite, and NoSQL without cold-start traps or hidden billing cliffs.
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The Modular Monolith Comeback: Why Teams Are Reversing Microservices Decisions
Amazon Prime Video cut costs 90% by merging a distributed pipeline back into one process, and Segment did the same to 140+ services in 2018 — the real lesson isn't that microservices are wrong, it's about when the network hop actually pays for itself.
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Inside Kuybi: Architecture of a NestJS Modular Monolith
Enforced module boundaries, a transactional outbox, tag-based caching, revocable sessions and one error contract: the decisions behind an open-source NestJS backend, with their tradeoffs.