Rate Limiting Algorithms: How to Protect Your API Without Annoying Your Users
How fixed windows, sliding windows, token buckets and leaky buckets work, where each one breaks, and how to pick the right one for your API.
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How Redis Actually Works
A tour of the single-threaded, in-memory engine behind a surprising share of the internet, and the one bet that explains almost every design choice in it.
How We Built a Production Email Verification Pipeline That Saved Our Sender Reputation
A deep dive into multi-layered email validation — from regex to SMTP probing, catch-all detection, and greylisting retries — so your platform never sends to the void.
