Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud An API gateway sits between clients and your backend services. It handles cross-cutting concerns so your services do not have to: authentication, rate limiting, request routing, load balancing, caching, and observability. WebMobileIoTGatewayRate LimitAuthLoad BalanceTransformCacheService AService BService CDB / Cache API
A deep, opinionated, practical guide for the engineer who has crossed the mid-level threshold — or is about to. The mental models, technical habits, ownership patterns, communication skills, and career mechanics that separate "solid senior" from "engineer the whole team builds around." Grounded in 2026 reality — AI-augmented coding, distributed async teams, post-ZIRP efficiency pressure, and a mar
In this article, I'll share six Laravel performance lessons we learned from building real client systems, including how Eloquent queries, caching, code structure, deadlines, and communication affected the way we build and maintain applications. We didn't notice anything wrong at first. The app worked, responses were fine, and everything looked clean during development. Then real users started usin
One thread. Multiple AIs. Deliberation, not polling. Most people use AI like this: 🤦 Ask one model → get one answer Ask multiple models → compare results That’s not thinking. That’s polling. Not side by side. Not isolated. But in sequence — where each one reads what the previous one said before responding. Manual Council is the simplest form of that idea. No backend. No orchestration. No
It Started With a Bug When I was building VMMS — a voucher management system MySQL. Clean queries. Fast results. Then I deployed to a server running MariaDB. Half my charts broke. I had written date queries like this all over the codebase: // This breaks on MariaDB DB::table('voucher_transactions') ->selectRaw('MONTHNAME(created_at) as month, COUNT(*) as total') ->groupByRaw('MONTH(crea
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I’ve been diving into Solana development for the past 10+ days as part of 100DaysOfSolana. Today, I successfully moved my scripts into the browser to build a functional Devnet Dashboard. It was a great exercise in handling RPC providers and managing BigInt data for UI display. Major shoutout to Major League Hacking for the challenge. Looking forward to the next arc!
We’ve all built "perfect" systems, only for a single overlooked detail to turn into a production nightmare. I’ve spent my career building, breaking, and fixing things. I’m starting this space to share those experiences, because I believe the best way to master a concept is to learn from mistakes. I’ll be focusing on three main series: 1. War Stories 2. Under the Hood 3. General Tech Discussions I’