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How I Replaced a Messy Regex Engine with Radix Trees (and Made Domain Matching 70% Faster)

We had a domain matching service returning responses in under a millisecond. So naturally, I deleted it. There is a golden rule in software engineering: if it ain't broke, don't touch it. This service wasn’t broken. It was fast. The servers weren’t actively on

Building a Poor Man's WAL on Azure Storage

So, picture this. You've built a slick web beacon service. It tracks user clicks, email opens, and page views at thousands of events per second. Every event gets pushed to an Azure Storage Queue, your downstream ETL cluster picks it up, processes it, and dumps it into your

How I Taught My Services to Talk to Each Other (Without a Message Broker)

So, picture this. You've built a slick Go service. It takes some data from Azure Blob Storage, does some heavy lifting to compile it into a regexp object, and uses that for string matching. The compilation is the slow part, so you, being the clever developer you are,

The Databag Series

A Little Bit of a Disaster, A Lot of Motivation: Building a CLI Secret Manager

So, let's talk about a little mishap that turned into a major motivation. My shiny new Macbook Pro M3, fresh out of the box, decided to brick itself after a routine software update, typical Apple. Cue dramatic music. And with it, went all my precious data, including those