> TL;DR: Go's built-in encoding/csv.Read allocates string slices and strings for every single row, generating 10M+ allocations and burning 540 MB on a 5M-row file. I built go-zerocsvhttps://github.com/fikrimohammad/go-zerocsv to replace this with in-...

A lot of backend development is not really product development. You spend an afternoon adding graceful shutdown handling. Another day goes into response formatting, request validation, environment configuration, security headers, idempotency, authen...

I live with seven cats: Kiara, Golia, Meias, Vaquinha, Tigrinha, Peluda, and Gamora. They all have different personalities, different appearances, and different routines. And, like many pet owners, there is one thing that has always worried me: Wh...

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. In this part, the focus is entirely on the backup side of the disaster-recovery exercise: understanding what etcd does; verifying the Kubernetes control plane; locating the static etcd manifest; understanding...

Why Your CTI Team Doesn’t Have a HUMINT Specialist And Why That’s a Problem Most cyber threat intelligence teams from small corporate security groups to large, government-affiliated units have never had a dedicated HUMINT specialist. That’s not a ho...

Hoi hoi! I'm @nyaomaruhttps://github.com/nyaomaru, a frontend engineer who thought OpenAPI codegen would make API clients easier, but somehow ended up lost in a forest of generated files. Writing API clients by hand is painful. Usually, we want t...

Every year the list of "boring but necessary" infrastructure APIs gets a little longer, and 2026 is no exception. Here's a rundown of six services developers are actually reaching for right now — covering web capture, AI model access, social data, e-...

V9 makes table features opt-in, moves state onto TanStack Store, and cuts memory on large grids. What that means for INP on admin and data-heavy money URLs. The support ticket is rarely “the homepage is slow.” More often it says the orders table fre...