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Performance Mar 28, 2026 · 10 min

Your Database Is the Bottleneck (Here's How to Fix It)

Your application is not slow. Your database is. This is true in roughly 90% of the performance incidents we investigate. The application code executes in microseconds. The network round trip takes a few milliseconds. But the database query? That take...

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Performance Mar 28, 2026 · 10 min

Why Your Caching Strategy Is Probably Wrong (And What to Do About It)

Caching is the first thing most engineers reach for when an application is slow. Add Redis, throw a TTL on it, move on. Except three months...

Performance Mar 28, 2026 · 12 min

Why Your Infrastructure Is Holding Your Business Back

The Difference Between Hosting and Infrastructure There is a distinction most businesses never think about until something breaks at 2 AM on...