# Stop Blindly Slapping Redis on Your Architecture: The Reality of Web Caching
We have all seen it happen. An API endpoint gets slow. The database CPU starts spiking during peak hours. The immediate, knee-jerk reaction from the dev team?
We have all seen it happen. An API endpoint gets slow. The database CPU starts spiking during peak hours. The immediate, knee-jerk reaction from the dev team?
Once upon a time, my engineering team was stuck in a vicious cycle.
Why does software in Thailand often have such a short lifespan? Why are we constantly forced into a rework from ground zero?
Managing an internal AI platform (OpenWebUI/LiteLLM) at a 500+ DAU scale is a constant lesson in the high cost of “Optics.” When working with innovative teams that demand the latest Gemini models the…
TL;DR: I don’t chase frameworks — I trace patterns. I work best when I understand the full system. Once you see the design beneath the syntax, every framework starts to feel familiar. It’s not about…
In the early days of React, Higher-Order Components (HoCs) were the go-to pattern for reusing logic across components. They offered a way to “wrap” additional behavior into a component, striving to…