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Hello, and what this is for
Why I built a site instead of posting in threads, and what you can expect to find here.
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Notes on backend systems, APIs, migrations that don't wake you up at 3am, and the unglamorous parts of scaling.
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The migration nobody noticed
Swapping the delivery layer under a live notification system for ~90M users, without dropping a message or sending any twice.
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A BFF is not a proxy
The fastest way to ruin a backend-for-frontend is to treat it as a pass-through. The value was never in the forwarding.
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