AWS diagrams love to look simple. The problem is that the operational reality behind them is usually doing a lot more work than the picture admits.
Category: Programming
Serverless has real tradeoffs, but for small teams I still think it usually wins. The operational overhead stays low, the first version ships faster, and the mistakes are easier to afford early on.
I still like serverless, but the tradeoff is obvious when something breaks at 2 a.m. The architecture is easy to ship and harder to reason about when you need logs, context, and a fast path to the real failure.
A legacy system is not dangerous just because it is old. It becomes dangerous when nobody can change it safely, nobody can see what it is doing, and the business depends on it anyway.
Most rewrite discussions are really a sign that the team is frustrated, not that a full rebuild is the smartest technical decision. In most cases, incremental change is the better call.
TypeScript 6.0 matters, but TypeScript 7.0 looks like the real shift. The native compiler work is the part I think most teams should actually care about.
PHP 8.5.4 is a bug-fix release, not a feature release. If you are already on PHP 8.5, you should update. If you are still on 8.4, this alone is not the reason to jump.
TypeScript 6.0 is now live, but the main story is not flashy syntax. It is the upgrade work you should do now before TypeScript 7 lands.
When it comes to building a push/pop system, both Redis and MongoDB can be used as effective solutions. However, there are a few key differences between these two databases that can impact which one you choose for your system. Redis is an in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache, and … Read More “Expanding on performance of Redis vs MongoDB for a push/pull system” »
I’ve been working on a new as-fast-as-possible platform for a specific situation I can’t go in to right now but I wanted to use MongoDB, however, I needed to reduce costs and use AWS so I wanted to use DocumentDB and needed to compare. Sadly DocumentDB does not cover 100% of MongoDB. Here’s the comparison: … Read More “MongoDB vs DocumentDB” »