Prompt Engineering Mastery: 12 Advanced Techniques Top Developers Use in 2026
Prompt Engineering 2026 I still remember the first time I tried to get an AI model to do exactly what I wanted. It was frustrating, like trying to give directions…
One Missing Index Caused Our Database to Timeout Under Load
missing database index The error started appearing at 2:14 PM. Not gradually. Not as a warning. Just sudden, complete failure. SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away SQLSTATE[HY000]:…
Our Cron Jobs Were Quietly Failing for Months — Here’s Why
Laravel scheduler failures "Why haven't we sent any invoice reminders in three months?" The question came from our finance team during a casual Slack conversation. My stomach dropped. Invoice reminders…
A 10-Line Code Change That Eliminated Random Production Failures
Laravel Job Deadlocks It was 2:47 AM when my phone buzzed with the fourth Sentry alert of the night. Same error, mysterious stack trace. Same "I have no idea what's…
Monolith vs Microservices: What Actually Broke at 100K Users
monolith vs microservices "We need to move to microservices. The monolith can't scale." This was my tech lead's opening line in our architecture review meeting. We had just crossed 100,000…
This One Laravel Mistake Was Causing 3-Second API Responses
Laravel N+1 query problem I'll never forget the day our mobile team lead walked into my office and said, "Your API is killing our app. Users are seeing spinners for…
The Silent Killer of Go Services: Debugging and Setting OS Resource Limits (ulimit and RLIMIT) in Production
go resource limits production Last Tuesday at 3:47 AM, my phone buzzed with an alert that made my stomach drop. Our payment processing service was down. Not slow. Not degraded.…
The Programming Landscape is Shifting: Here’s What I’m Seeing After 15 Years in the Trenches
emerging trends in computer programming I still remember the day I wrote my first "Hello World" program in C++. It was 2009, and I thought I had it all figured…
The Complete Java DSA Roadmap: From Zero to Hero
Last updated: December 2025 (Java DSA) I still remember sitting in front of my laptop at 2 AM, staring at a LeetCode problem that seemed impossible. My coffee had gone…
Building a CLI Tool from Scratch in Go
Go CLI tool So I've been using command line tools for years - git, docker, kubectl, you name it. But I never actually built one myself until last week when…