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Notes on Node, Kafka, Postgres, and the parts that turned out harder than they looked.

2026.09.02Why your Kafka consumer lagsPLACEHOLDER — Consumer lag is usually not a throughput problem. A guide to reading the metrics and finding the real cause.kafkanodejsperformance1 min read

2026.08.14The Postgres indexes you're not usingPLACEHOLDER — Partial, covering, and expression indexes solve problems a plain B-tree can't.postgresperformancesql1 min read

2026.07.30GraphQL N+1, actually solvedPLACEHOLDER — DataLoader is the answer, but only if you scope it correctly. The mistakes that make it silently useless.graphqlnodejsperformance1 min read

2026.07.11Strapi in production: what the docs don't tell youPLACEHOLDER — Migrations, media storage, and the upgrade path. Lessons from running Strapi for real clients.strapinodejsdevops1 min read