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Rate Limiting at Scale: Building Fixed Window and Token Bucket in Go
23+ min ago (668+ words) Rate limiting is one of those things every backend engineer knows they need but few actually build from scratch. Most reach for a library. I built mine " two algorithms, Redis-backed, with Lua scripting for atomicity. Here's what the tradeoffs actually…...
Redox sees another months of improvements
7+ hour, 43+ min ago (201+ words) The months keep coming, and thus, the monthly progress reports keep coming, too, for Redox, the new general purpose operating system written in Rust. This past month, there's been considerable graphics improvements, better deadlock detection in the kernel, improved Unicode…...
Beyond the Queue: 5 Surprising Patterns for High-Performance Laravel Systems
19+ hour, 54+ min ago (545+ words) The Ghost in the Machine The "Circuit Breaker: Preventing the 25-Hour Backlog When an external service like Hubtel/Paystack experiences an outage, traditional retry logic is a liability. If you have 10, 000 payment jobs in your queue and each waits 30 seconds…...
We Use Valtio Instead of Redux. Nobody Regrets It.
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (567+ words) For updating a counter, Redux requires you to set up a store, reducers, actions, selectors, and maybe middleware. Valtio needs three lines of code. We replaced the entirety of our frontend state management with Valtio at a 15-person startup. That…...
Laravel Cloud Adds Path Blocking to Prevent Bots From Waking Hibernated Apps
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (478+ words) Jump24 - Laravel Developers that Click into Place. Never outsourced. Never o'shored. Always exceptional. Published on April 8th, 2026 by Eric L. Barnes Laravel Cloud has added a new Path Blocking feature designed to keep hibernated applications from waking up because of unwanted bot traffic....
Beyond Basic Caching: Introducing `layercache` " The Production-Ready Multi-Layer Caching Toolkit for Node. js
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (301+ words) These challenges often lead to: We've been there. That's why we built layercache " an open-source, Type Script-first library designed to solve these hard problems, providing a comprehensive, production-ready multi-layer caching solution for Node. js applications. layercache unifies in-process memory (L1), Redis…...
Four Bugs We Found in Our Node. js Rate Limiter (And How We Fixed Them)
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (843+ words) We recently shipped node-rate-limiter-pro, a high-performance rate limiter for Node. js with Token Bucket, Sliding Window, and Redis support. It benchmarks at ~2 M ops/sec in memory and ~10x faster than express-rate-limit. Then we did a proper code review. We found…...
API Rate Limits Killing Your SFMC Automation?
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (255+ words) API Rate Limits Crushing Your Enterprise SFMC Performance? Here's What's Actually Happening Behind the Curtain Your million-record segment upload fails at 3 AM. Journey Builder throws HTTP 429 errors during peak campaign execution. Contact deletion processes hang indefinitely. Sound familiar? SFMC API…...
" Kafka vs Rabbit MQ vs SQS vs Bull MQ " Stop Guessing, Choose the Right One (2026 Guide)
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (166+ words) " Using the wrong messaging system will silently kill your scalability. " Choosing the right one will make your system fast, resilient, and future-proof. If you're building microservices, background jobs, or real-time systems" this is one decision you cannot afford to get…...
Rate Limiting Next. js API Routes: In-Memory, Redis, and Plan-Based Limits
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (101+ words) No rate limiting = your AI Saa S gets scraped, abused, or accidentally DDo S'd by a runaway script. One user's infinite loop shouldn't kill service for everyone else. Here's how to add rate limiting to Next. js API routes without…...