Tech Insights & Stories
Real-world experiences, technical deep-dives, and lessons learned from building scalable systems
From Netlify to Cloudflare Pages, what really sets Vercel apart—and where it falls short. Hosting is commodity—DX is not.
When engineers first encounter Kubernetes, it feels like stepping into a new universe. Here's the truth: Kubernetes is not broken — it's opinionated.
Using Amazon EKS feels like buying premium — but still needing to assemble everything yourself. It's managed Kubernetes — in the sense that AWS manages the control plane.
ClickHouse isn't just a faster OLAP engine. It's a rethink of how analytical databases should behave — and how engineers should model for scale.
Go isn't trying to win beauty contests. It's not elegant. It's not expressive. It's blunt, minimal, and deliberate. And that's why production systems love it.
System design isn't just about diagramming services and databases. It's about surviving the chaos that diagrams don't show.
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