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The API Rate Limit Catastrophe In modern B2B SaaS development at Smart Tech Devs, your application rarely lives in isolation. You constantly communicate with external services: billing via Stripe, CRM syncing via Salesforce, or email campaigns via Resend. The architectural trap occurs when you combine the immense speed of Laravel Queues with the strict rate limits of these third-party APIs. If you
A RAM read takes about 100 nanoseconds. A disk read — even on a modern SSD — takes around 100,000 nanoseconds. That single gap explains most of Redis’s speed, before it does a single thing clever. Friend’s Link But RAM alone isn’t the full story. The other half is a design decision that looks like a limitation on paper — and turns out to be one of the smartest choices in the codebase. More on that
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed