Development

When building APIs and microservices, choosing the right communication protocol is a foundational decision. REST and gRPC are two dominant approaches — each with distinct trade-offs in performance, developer experience, and use-case fit.

📄️ Handling Backpressure

When your system produces data faster than it can consume it, you have a backpressure problem. Left unhandled, it causes memory exhaustion, dropped messages, cascading failures, and eventual process crashes. This guide covers what backpressure is, how it manifests in Node.js, and how to solve it properly using RabbitMQ.

📄️ Observability: Metrics, Events, Traces, and Logs

Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of a system by examining its outputs. Modern observability is built on three pillars: metrics, traces, and logs, with events as a fourth emerging pillar.

📄️ Proactive Issue Resolution

The best customer support is preventing issues before customers notice them. This guide covers strategies, tools, and practices for detecting and resolving problems before they escalate to customer complaints.