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September 17, 2025
Time Precision in NodeJS: UTC vs Monotonic TimeStackademic
Why elapsed-time measurements with wall-clock time are a latent bug in distributed systems, and when to reach for monotonic clocks instead.
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August 19, 2025
Request Retries In Distributed Systems - Balancing Resilience and Resources
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Building a resilient system with request retries can become an internal DDoS attack on your resilient system. Do not vibe code retries, architect it expecting things to go wrong!
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August 6, 2025
Beyond Caching - Using Redis as a High-Speed Vector Database for Semantic Search in AI Applications
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Efficiently processing large document collections is a foundational requirement for building modern intelligent systems. Learn how to leverage Redis for large-scale document classification.
Published on
July 25, 2024
How I Passed The AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification
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I decided to challenge my knowledge of AWS services with a certification and I passed on my first attempt!