Writing on Databases
Articles on Databases from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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4 posts tagged “databases”
- career growth
How to Become a Data Analyst in Pakistan: Skills, Jobs and a 16 Week Roadmap
How to become a data analyst in Pakistan: the SQL, Excel, Power BI and Python skills employers ask for, where the jobs are, a 16 week plan, portfolio projects on real data, and data analyst vs data scientist explained honestly.Sep 13, 202642 - backend
Sixteen Things That Break a Backend, and What Prevents Each
Backend development best practices are mostly about failure: slow databases, duplicate requests, silent timeouts. Sixteen things that break a backend, grouped by where they bite, and the boring default that prevents each one.Aug 17, 202644 - system design
Microservices Practices That Actually Keep Them Workable
Microservices best practices that matter once you genuinely need services, and the honest case for not splitting too early: business boundaries, data ownership, resilience, idempotency, events, tracing, contract tests and gradual deploys.Jul 29, 202625 - ai
RAG, Fine Tuning, or a Better Prompt: How to Choose
RAG vs fine tuning vs a better prompt: a practical order from prompting through retrieval, embeddings, reranking, tools and agents to fine tuning, with the signal that tells you to move to the next step.Jun 29, 202617
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