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Nobody talks about it at Station F happy hours. But the startups shipping fastest have stopped hiring for every backend project on their roadmap.
Read more“Can we still fix this?” Sometimes the real answer is: it was never set up to succeed.
Read moreReturning HTTP 200 for failed operations hides errors, breaks client logic, and makes systems harder to debug. Using proper status codes is not pedantry—it’s critical for correctness and reliability.
Read moreDatabase slowdowns with table growth are rarely mysterious — they follow predictable patterns rooted in how storage engines, indexes, and query planners behave as data volume increases.
Read moreHigh coupling between microservices negates the independence benefits the architecture is supposed to deliver. Recognizing coupling patterns — shared databases, synchronous chains, shared libraries with domain logic — is the first step to eliminating them.
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