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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Sixteen Things That Break a Backend, and What Prevents Each
Backend engineering is taught as frameworks and turns out to be almost entirely about what happens when the database is slow, when the same request arrives twice, or when a downstream service stops answering without saying so. None of it is deep, all of it is invisible until it happens to you at an unpleasant hour. Sixteen situations and their usual answers.
Microservices Practices That Actually Keep Them Workable
Most microservices advice describes how to run them well and skips the decision that causes the most damage, which is splitting too early. The practices that matter once you genuinely need services: boundaries drawn around business capability, data ownership, failure handling, idempotency, events over synchronous calls, tracing and contract testing.
RAG, Fine Tuning, or a Better Prompt: How to Choose
Every article recommends whatever that article happens to be about, and the real decision is more boring: match the problem to the cheapest technique that solves it, which is nearly always further down the list than people assume. A working order from prompting through retrieval, reranking, tools and agents, with the signal that tells you to move to the next step.
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