Vector Databases Compared: Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and pgvector
Vector Databases Are Not All the Same Problem The vector database market has consolidated considerably since the RAG explosion of…
Local LLMs in 2026: Ollama, llama.cpp, and Running Models on Your Hardware
Running a 70B Model on Your Own Hardware Is No Longer a Niche Activity In 2023, running a large language…
The Art of Database Indexing: Beyond the Basics
Database Indexes: The Optimization Most Developers Do Once and Never Revisit Every developer knows that indexes speed up queries. Fewer…
Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka and Kafka Connect: Beyond Hello World
Most introductions to Apache Kafka stop at producer and consumer basics. They show you how to publish a message and…
Log Management on a Budget: ELK Alternatives That Won’t Eat Your Server
Loki, Vector, Alloy, and ClickHouse compared for resource-constrained teams. A practical guide to log management without the ELK stack memory…
Edge Computing in Practice: When to Move Logic Closer to Users
The promise of edge computing has moved well beyond marketing slides. In 2026, developers across every stack are grappling with…
Building a Multi-Region Architecture on a Budget: Lessons from Running NovVista
When I started running NovVista, the architecture was simple: a single server in Virginia, a domain, and an optimistic assumption…
SQLite in Production: When the Simplest Database Is the Right One
SQLite in production — WAL mode, Litestream, real use cases, performance characteristics, and when it beats PostgreSQL.
Caching Strategies for Web Applications: Redis, CDN, and Browser Cache Explained
The full caching hierarchy explained — Redis patterns, CDN configuration, browser cache headers, and when NOT to cache.