by Anthony Silva | Oct 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most applications do not need Algolia, Meilisearch or an Elasticsearch cluster. They need a search box that returns relevant results in under 50 milliseconds, with ranking, highlighting and a bit of typo tolerance. PostgreSQL has done exactly that since version 8.3,...
by Anthony Silva | Oct 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your Flutter app works perfectly on Android and iOS. You run flutter run -d chrome, hit the same Node.js endpoint, and the request dies before it even reaches your server. The console fills with red text about Access-Control-Allow-Origin, and suddenly a project that...
by Anthony Silva | Sep 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every integration project reaches the same moment: the third-party API that worked perfectly in staging starts returning 429 Too Many Requests in production. Most tutorials about a Node.js retry API call exponential backoff pattern stop at a ten line setTimeout loop....
by Anthony Silva | Sep 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most tutorials about webhook Node.js integrations stop at the fun part: spin up an Express route, log req.body, celebrate. That is a demo, not a production endpoint. The moment a real provider (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Slack, your own internal service) starts...
by Anthony Silva | Sep 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every team that ships fast eventually needs feature flags. You want to merge unfinished work into main, turn a risky feature on for 5% of users, or give one enterprise customer early access without a separate branch. The usual advice is to sign up for LaunchDarkly,...
