Parsa Aftabi

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Parsa Aftabi
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Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure
Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure Redis is the piece of infrastructure everyone under-configures. Out of the box it's a cache with no memory limit, an eviction policy that fails writes in
Oct 12, 20265 min read
Docker Images I'd Actually Ship: A Production Checklist
Most Dockerfiles I've seen in the wild are development artifacts wearing a production costume. Someone took the image they debugged with, slapped a CMD on it, and called it a deploy. It works — right
Oct 12, 20266 min read
Laravel Octane in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You
Laravel Octane promises something that sounds too good: your Laravel app, running at speeds that make PHP-FPM look like it's wading through mud. Thousands of requests per second. Response times in sin
Oct 11, 20266 min read6
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling in Go: What I Actually Tune in Production
In my last post, lesson 3 was "your database is the bottleneck, not Go" — use pgx, size the pool deliberately. A few of you asked what "deliberately" actually means. Fair question. Here's every pgxpoo
Oct 10, 20267 min read3
7 Lessons I Learned Building Production APIs in Go
TL;DR: After shipping several production systems in Go — coming from PHP/Laravel — these are the seven lessons that actually mattered: boring project structure, context.Context everywhere, fixing the
Oct 9, 20265 min read9