I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
We are living in the golden age of developer productivity. With tools like Copilot and ChatGPT, you can generate hundreds of lines of boilerplate and complex API endpoints in seconds. It feels like magic. But there is a hidden danger lurking behind that flashing cursor: If you don't possess foundational architectural knowledge, AI will just help you build a Big Ball of Mud faster than ever before.