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Backend Development

5 articles · #BackendDevelopment

API Rate Limiting That Doesn't Break Your Clients

Token bucket or leaky bucket is the easy choice; burst semantics, quota scope, and retry behavior are the decisions your clients inherit.

6 min · July 22, 2026

Independent deploys are fine. Pretending each green pipeline is a release is how you recreate Tuesday's outage without knowing which Tuesday.

7 min · July 16, 2026

Column rename, type change, FK add — each one without the rollback conversation.

6 min · July 8, 2026

TeamFooting

The pager anxiety, the runbooks, and what 3am actually looks like before you've lived it

7 min · June 1, 2026

BuildFooting

Containerize your first app without cargo-culting a 12-layer config from Stack Overflow

7 min · May 30, 2026