The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices

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The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices

Lucas and Luna sit down at side-by-side laptops to talk about the craft of building software. Each episode picks a single engineering challenge — optimizing a database query for latency, designing a fault-tolerant microservice boundary, refactoring a legacy monolith without breaking production — and walks through the trade-offs with real code examples and benchmark numbers. They debate testing strategies (integration vs. end-to-end, when to mock), revisit classic papers on distributed systems and data structures, and trace how architectural decisions cascade into operational costs. The show serves senior developers, staff engineers, and technical leads who want to hear reasoned, specific conversations about trade-offs and rigor — not hype about the latest framework. Lucas brings the journalist's habit of asking why a team chose one pattern over another; Luna pushes back with real-world failure stories from her own career. Together, they treat software engineering as a discipline of explicit decisions and measurable outcomes. No hot takes, no 'best practices' without context. Just two engineers thinking out loud about how to build systems that last. What does it actually cost to ship a feature with 99.99% uptime — and when is that the wrong target?

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Episodes

142 episodes

How SQLite Powers Billions of Devices

Aug 1, 2026 · 10:38
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How Contract Testing Prevented Microservices Breaking Changes

Jul 30, 2026 · 5:30
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How OpenTelemetry Traced a Request Across 12 Microservices

Jul 30, 2026 · 8:29
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How One Engineer Cut Test Suite Time by 90 Percent

Jul 29, 2026 · 5:10
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How One Engineers Post-Mortem Cut Incident Recurrence by 80 Percent

Jul 29, 2026 · 6:44
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How Property-Based Testing Caught Invisible Bugs

Jul 28, 2026 · 6:23
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How One Engineer Automated Dependency Updates Without Breaking the Build

Jul 28, 2026 · 5:29
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How One Team Reduced a 40 Percent Defect Rate Through Targeted Refactoring

Jul 27, 2026 · 6:06
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How Chaos Engineering Prevented a Black Friday Meltdown

Jul 27, 2026 · 6:10
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Using Structured Logging to Slash Debug Time by Hours

Jul 26, 2026 · 6:59
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How One Engineer Used Feature Flags to Migrate a Core Service Without Downtime

Jul 26, 2026 · 8:40
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How Stripe Masters API Versioning Without Breaking Clients

Jul 25, 2026 · 9:03
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How One Engineer Reduced a Pipeline from 6 Hours to 4 Minutes with Delta Lake

Jul 24, 2026 · 11:00
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How One Engineer Reduced a Docker Image from 2GB to 55MB

Jul 23, 2026 · 11:03
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How to Debug Slow Queries with Flame Graphs

Jul 23, 2026 · 8:54
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How an Off-by-One Error Caused a Silent Data Corruption Bug

Jul 22, 2026 · 9:25
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How One Engineer Shrunk an AWS Bill by 40 Percent Using Spot Instances

Jul 22, 2026 · 8:18
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How One Engineer Optimized an API with Connection Pooling

Jul 21, 2026 · 6:50
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How One Team Fixed a GDPR Data Deletion That Took 72 Hours

Jul 21, 2026 · 6:54
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How One Engineer Fixed a Quorum Read Slowdown in CockroachDB

Jul 20, 2026 · 11:57
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How One Hotfix Caused a Production Outage and What We Learned

Jul 20, 2026 · 5:34
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How One Engineer Migrated 10 Million Database Records Without Downtime

Jul 19, 2026 · 9:23
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How One Engineer Cut Storage Costs by 60 Percent Using Tiered Compression

Jul 19, 2026 · 8:32
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How One Engineer Fixed a Cascading Cache Stampede

Jul 18, 2026 · 7:46
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How One Engineer Migrated 50 Million Users Without Downtime

Jul 18, 2026 · 8:48
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How One Engineer Reduced a 12-Hour Batch Job to 15 Minutes with Streaming

Jul 17, 2026 · 11:06
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How One Engineer Eliminated Flaky Tests Without Code Changes

Jul 17, 2026 · 7:02
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How One Engineer Visualised Dependency Graphs to Fix Inefficient Microservices

Jul 16, 2026 · 12:23
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How One Engineer Debugged a Race Condition That Only Happened at 3 AM

Jul 16, 2026 · 9:32
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How One Engineer Debugged a Heisenbug That Only Reproduces in Production

Jul 15, 2026 · 8:51
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How One Engineer Parallelized a Batch Job from 4 Hours to 3 Minutes

Jul 15, 2026 · 11:16
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How One Engineer Reduced Kubernetes Costs by 70 Percent

Jul 14, 2026 · 8:35
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How One Engineer Used Session Replay to Fix a Checkout Bug

Jul 14, 2026 · 6:39
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How a Single Mistyped Environment Variable Broke a Deployment Pipeline

Jul 13, 2026 · 9:25
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How One Engineer Cut CI Build Times by 80 Percent

Jul 13, 2026 · 6:49
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How One Engineer Eliminated a Memory Leak in Production

Jul 12, 2026 · 8:01
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How One Engineer Refactored a Monolith Without Stopping the Business

Jul 12, 2026 · 10:06
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How a Single CDN Misconfiguration Took Down 15000 Sites

Jul 11, 2026 · 5:57
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How One Engineer Reduced Database Deadlocks by 95 Percent

Jul 11, 2026 · 9:05
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How One Engineer Automated Code Review with AI Agents

Jul 10, 2026 · 10:01
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How One Engineer Used Structured Logging to Debug a Serverless Disaster

Jul 10, 2026 · 8:55
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How One Engineer Isolates Microservice Failures with Circuit Breakers

Jul 9, 2026 · 7:03
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How a Single Database Connection Pool Caused a Production Meltdown

Jul 9, 2026 · 6:51
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How a Single Unicode Character Crashed a Payment Gateway

Jul 8, 2026 · 9:21
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How a Single Misconfigured DNS Entry Caused a Multi-Region Outage

Jul 8, 2026 · 6:38
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How One Engineer Cut Database Query Time 90 Percent With Indexes

Jul 7, 2026 · 8:44
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How One Engineer Reduced Lambda Cold Starts by 60 Percent

Jul 7, 2026 · 7:17
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How TypeScript Type Errors Caused a Three Hour Production Outage

Jul 6, 2026 · 9:20
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How a Single Misconfigured Load Balancer Took Down a Billion Dollar Site

Jul 6, 2026 · 6:34
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How a Single Null Byte Broke a Payment System

Jul 5, 2026 · 9:18
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How a Single Feature Flag Caused a Cascading Production Failure

Jul 5, 2026 · 8:32
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How a Single Race Condition Cost an E-Commerce Company Millions

Jul 4, 2026 · 9:28
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How a Single Config Change Halved Server Costs

Jul 4, 2026 · 9:20
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How a Single Regex Caused a Production Meltdown

Jul 3, 2026 · 7:51
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How One Engineer Debogused a Kubernetes Outage Caused by a Single Misconfigured Pod

Jul 3, 2026 · 9:56
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How One Engineer Reduced AWS Costs by 80 Percent With Reserved Instances

Jul 2, 2026 · 7:04
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How One Engineer Cut CI Build Times by 80 Percent With Cache Warmers

Jul 2, 2026 · 6:37
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How One Engineer Debugged a Production Outage Using Flame Graphs

Jul 1, 2026 · 9:19
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How One Engineer Debugged a Race Condition in a Redis Lock

Jul 1, 2026 · 7:37
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How a Single Log Line Saved a Startup from a Data Breach

Jun 30, 2026 · 8:29
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How One Engineer Recalled a Wrong Production Deploy in 8 Seconds

Jun 30, 2026 · 7:11
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How an Engineer Reduced Docker Image Size by 95 Percent

Jun 29, 2026 · 9:13
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How One Engineer Cut Logging Costs 90 Percent Without Losing Observability

Jun 29, 2026 · 8:43
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How One Engineer Repaired a Corrupt Git Repository Without Losing History

Jun 28, 2026 · 7:47
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How One Engineer Debugged a Kubernetes Pod Eviction That Wiped 5000 Jobs

Jun 28, 2026 · 8:04
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How One Engineer Fixed a Sidekiq Memory Bloat That Crunched Servers Every 72 Hours

Jun 27, 2026 · 8:26
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How One Engineer Handled a Database Migration With Zero Downtime Using Flyway

Jun 27, 2026 · 5:16
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How One Engineer Rewrote a Legacy Database Without Downtime

Jun 26, 2026 · 8:19
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How One Engineer Debugged a Floating Point Bug That Cost a Drone Company $2 Million

Jun 26, 2026 · 8:37
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How a Single Index Cut Query Time from Minutes to Milliseconds

Jun 25, 2026 · 10:37
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How One Engineer Debugged a Memory Leak That Crashed Production Every 47 Days

Jun 25, 2026 · 7:40
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How One Engineer Optimised an API with Branch Prediction

Jun 24, 2026 · 7:48
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How One Engineer Fixed a Cache Poisoning Nightmare

Jun 24, 2026 · 6:01
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How One Engineer Turned a Monolith Into Microservices Without Downtime

Jun 23, 2026 · 13:16
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How One Engineer Automated 90 Percent of Code Reviews with a Custom Linter

Jun 23, 2026 · 8:33
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How One Engineer Debugged a Null Pointer in Production

Jun 22, 2026 · 7:14
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How a Single Linter Rule Prevented a Data Corruption Bug

Jun 22, 2026 · 10:26
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How One Engineer Debugged a Race Condition in a Distributed Database

Jun 21, 2026 · 6:55
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How One Engineer Wrote a Single Git Hook That Saved 200 Hours a Week

Jun 21, 2026 · 9:30
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How One Engineer Cut Latency 40 Percent with Tailwind CSS Purge

Jun 20, 2026 · 9:47
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How One Engineer Cut CI Costs 80 Percent with Smart Caching

Jun 20, 2026 · 6:53
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How One Engineer Saved a Project from Vendor Lock-In with OpenTelemetry

Jun 19, 2026 · 8:55
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How One Engineer Debugged a Timezone Bug That Cost a Trading Desk Millions

Jun 19, 2026 · 9:29
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How One Engineer Fixed a Serverless Cold Start Nightmare

Jun 18, 2026 · 10:24
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How One Engineer Shrank a Docker Image by 95 Percent

Jun 18, 2026 · 8:01
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How One Engineer Debugged a Year 2038 Bug in 2025

Jun 17, 2026 · 9:40
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The $400k Bug That Only Happened in Production

Jun 17, 2026 · 7:40
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How a Single Config Change Reduced AWS Costs by 90 Percent

Jun 16, 2026 · 8:22
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How One Engineer Reduced Cloud Costs by 60 Percent with Spot Instances

Jun 16, 2026 · 9:45
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How One Engineer Debugged a Heisenbug That Only Happened in Production

Jun 15, 2026 · 7:19
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How One Engineer Fixed a Timezone Bug That Lost Millions

Jun 15, 2026 · 8:39
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How One Engineer Eliminated Configuration Drift with a Single Declarative Tool

Jun 14, 2026 · 9:09
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How One Engineer Cut a 12-Hour Deploy to 11 Minutes with Sandboxed Previews

Jun 14, 2026 · 11:36
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How One Engineer Cut Database Latency by 99 Percent with Connection Pooling

Jun 13, 2026 · 7:48
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How a Single Memory Leak Crashed a Trading Platform

Jun 13, 2026 · 7:22
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How a Single Query Lock Brought Down Production at 3 AM

Jun 12, 2026 · 7:01
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How One Engineer Reduced Queue Latency by 80 Percent with Batching

Jun 12, 2026 · 9:06
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How One Engineer Reduced Memory Use by 70 Percent with Arena Allocation

Jun 11, 2026 · 9:46
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How One Engineer Used Genetic Algorithms to Optimize API Routing

Jun 11, 2026 · 10:25
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How One Engineer Cut Test Suite Runtime by 80 Percent with Property Based Testing

Jun 10, 2026 · 8:38
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How One Engineer Reduced Incident Response with a Custom Chaos Engineering Tool

Jun 10, 2026 · 9:01
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How One Engineer Transformed a Legacy Monolith into Microservices Without Downtime

Jun 9, 2026 · 6:10
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How One Engineer Reduced a Monorepo CI Pipeline to 8 Minutes

Jun 9, 2026 · 9:01
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How a Single Feature Flag Prevented a Five-Hour Outage

Jun 8, 2026 · 14:29
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How One Engineer Automated Code Review with a Custom Static Analysis Tool

Jun 8, 2026 · 7:21
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How One Engineer Cut Incident Response from Hours to Seconds with a Runbook

Jun 7, 2026 · 7:01
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How a Single Bit Flip Brought Down an Entire Data Center

Jun 7, 2026 · 6:24
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How One Engineer Slashed Build Times from 40 Minutes to 90 Seconds

Jun 6, 2026 · 8:29
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How One Engineer Cut Docker Image Size by 90 Percent

Jun 6, 2026 · 8:28
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How One Engineer Refactored a 10 Year Old Codebase in Six Weeks

Jun 5, 2026 · 9:23
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How One Engineer Prevented a Deletion Cascade with a Soft Delete

Jun 5, 2026 · 5:22
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How a Single Consistent Hashing Change Prevented a Cascade Failure

Jun 4, 2026 · 8:38
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How One Team Cut Cloud Costs by 60 Percent with a FinOps Strategy

Jun 4, 2026 · 12:33
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How One Engineer Reduced AWS Costs by 70 Percent with Spot Instances

Jun 3, 2026 · 10:28
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How a Two-Character Typo Exposed 50 Million User Records

Jun 3, 2026 · 8:21
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How One Engineer Turned a Flaky Test into a Daily Reliability Report

Jun 2, 2026 · 8:31
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How a Single Test Case Caught a Million-Dollar Bug

Jun 2, 2026 · 9:09
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How One Engineer Used Regression Testing to Prevent a Production Outage

Jun 1, 2026 · 14:05
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How One Engineer Cut Database Queries by 95 Percent with a Cache

Jun 1, 2026 · 7:11
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How to Say No as a Software Engineer

May 31, 2026 · 9:15
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How One Engineer Cut Average Incident Response Time with a ChatOps Bot

May 31, 2026 · 9:40
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How an Intern Fixed a 3AM Production Database Deadlock

May 30, 2026 · 8:27
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How One Engineer Cut CSS Bundle Size by 80 Percent

May 30, 2026 · 10:49
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How One Engineer Cut Tech Onboarding From Weeks to Days

May 29, 2026 · 10:12
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How a Simple Linter Rule Prevented a Million Dollar Outage

May 29, 2026 · 10:50
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How One Engineer Debugged a Sleep Bug in Production

May 28, 2026 · 6:45
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How One Engineer Shrank a 200GB Logging Bill to 20GB

May 28, 2026 · 8:10
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How Spotify Unbundled the Monolith into Microservices

May 27, 2026 · 9:36
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How One Engineer Cut Their On-Call Fatigue by 60 Percent

May 27, 2026 · 8:21
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How One Engineer Cut Database Latency by 80 Percent

May 26, 2026 · 6:45
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How a Simple Logline Prevented a Production Disaster

May 26, 2026 · 8:43
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How Big Tech Standardized on Internal Developer Platforms

May 25, 2026 · 14:00
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How a Feature Flag Almost Broke Black Friday

May 25, 2026 · 8:49
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How One Enigneer's Monorepo Decision Saved Three Million Dollars

May 24, 2026 · 10:48
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Why Your Logging Strategy Is Costing You Millions

May 24, 2026 · 5:58
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The Hidden Cost of Tech Debt in Your Codebase

May 23, 2026 · 8:29
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Why Your API Is Slower at 3 PM Than at 3 AM

May 23, 2026 · 9:05
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How One Team Cut Their CI Pipeline From 45 Minutes to 4

May 22, 2026 · 9:43
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How One Engineer Cut Cloud Costs by 90 Percent

May 22, 2026 · 11:40
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How One Tech Lead Cut Incident Response Time by 70 Percent

May 21, 2026 · 8:30
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Why Your Code Review Is Slower Than It Should Be

May 21, 2026 · 9:51
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The One Hundred Million Dollar Bug

May 19, 2026 · 8:44
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