Server-side engineering: APIs, databases, runtimes, queries and the architecture decisions behind fast, reliable backends.
Every entity, every block update, every redstone pulse — one thread, twenty times a second, 50 milliseconds a pass. Folia's answer is to stop sharing the kitchen. Here is the tick budget and the ownership rules, read from the PaperMC source.
A PHP API case study: fixing an N+1 query, twenty serial cURL calls, missing connection pooling, and stats recalculated on every request with Redis caching.
Before I ever touched PHP, I learned mise en place the hard way, on a line in a 1-star kitchen. Turns out variables, functions, and scope are the same discipline with a different uniform.
TypeScript 6.0 dropped today. It's the last version of TypeScript written in TypeScript. Strict mode is on by default, ES5 is gone, outFile is dead, and TypeScript 7.0 — rewritten in Go — is right behind it. Here's everything that changed and what you actually need to do.
A production deep dive into Bun v1.3.11 — covering Bun.cron for OS-level scheduling, Bun.sliceAnsi for terminal-aware string slicing, enriched Markdown rendering callbacks, path-ignore patterns for test discovery, and the dgram UDP fixes that unblocked real-world libraries on macOS.
Kubernetes runs your Docker containers across a cluster of machines, handles scheduling, health checking, rolling deployments, auto-scaling, and self-healing. When your application outgrows a single server, Kubernetes is how it runs on ten.
Docker packages your application and everything it needs to run into a container that behaves identically on your laptop, your teammate's machine, and the production server. "It works on my machine" stops being a problem. Here is how it actually works and what production usage looks like.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a cache, message broker, session store, rate limiter, and real-time leaderboard engine. I dropped it into production as a cache before I understood what it actually was. Here is what it is, how it works, and what it does well.
Tutorials that show you how to build an API in 50 lines of code are lying to you. This is what a production TypeScript API actually looks like — authentication, validation, error handling, rate limiting, database connection pooling, structured logging, and a test suite. All of it, from scratch.
An API is a contract between two pieces of software. One side defines what requests it accepts and what responses it sends. The other side follows that contract to get work done. Every app on your phone, every website pulling live data, and every service talking to another service uses APIs.
MySQL runs WordPress, which runs 43% of the web. It runs Facebook's original backend, YouTube, and GitHub. It is also a database with genuine quirks that bite people who do not know about them. Here is the full picture.
A database is organized data with a system for storing, retrieving, and modifying it reliably. Every application you have ever used depends on one. Here is how they actually work, what the different types do, and what separates a well-designed schema from one that will wreck you at scale.
