Async AI Pipelines in FastAPI: Streaming, Queuing, and Long-Running RequestsSep 27, 2026·5 min read·5
Redis Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should KnowRedis gets reached for because it's fast. That's often the wrong reason. Speed isn't a pattern — it's a property. Using Redis correctly means understanding what each pattern is actually good at and, jOct 1, 2026·6 min read·8
Terraform CI/CD: Plan on PR, Apply on MergeS01E05 of Terraform for Application EngineersSep 15, 2026·5 min read·9
Provisioning GCP Services with Terraform: Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQLS01E04 of Terraform for Application EngineersSep 13, 2026·6 min read·7
Managing State, Secrets, and Environments in TerraformS01E03 of Terraform for Application EngineersSep 11, 2026·6 min read·13
Structuring OpenAI and Gemini Calls in FastAPI: Prompts, Fallbacks, and RetriesThe fallback was supposed to be temporary. When the OpenAI API was unavailable, the service would return the last cached result for that user rather than failing the request. Clean degraded experienceSep 8, 2026·7 min read·12
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling on Cloud Run: The Problem Nobody Warns You AboutCloud Run scales horizontally. That's the point. Under load, it spins up new instances automatically — each one handling concurrent requests, each one maintaining its own connection pool to your CloudSep 1, 2026·6 min read·43
Building AI-Powered Backend Services: Why Most Integrations Break in ProductionThe integration looked solid. In testing, the AI-powered document extraction service worked exactly as designed — pull a PDF, send it to the model, parse the structured output, write to the database. Aug 22, 2026·4 min read·27
