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Practical articles on delivery and infrastructure, updated with what we are seeing in 2025 and planning for 2026—search and AI overviews, platform releases, FinOps pressure, and sharper performance budgets. Use the category list to narrow posts; the same filters appear next to every article.
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SQL with NoSQL: Polyglot Persistence Without Two Sources of Truth
When Postgres stays system of record and MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch handles search and documents—boundaries, migrations, and consistency notes.
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CQRS Lite: Postgres as Ledger, Document DB as Read Model for Analytics
A pragmatic split: transactional writes in SQL, denormalized analytics slices in Mongo or similar—without adopting full event sourcing day one.
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Transactions Across SQL and NoSQL: Sagas, Idempotency, and Where Not To Try ACID
Distributed transactions are brittle; orchestrate sagas with compensating steps, idempotency keys, and clear ownership when relational and document stores both mutate.
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Designing APIs That Work for Web and Mobile Clients Together
Versioning, pagination, error shapes, and field selection for 2025–2026 so your Android app and React site do not fork into two backends.
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