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7 Things That Break LLM Apps in Production
The demo works on your machine. Here's what takes it down when real users show up.
Jul 8
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Full-Stack JavaScript Architect Bundle 🔥
Both playbooks. Free for newsletter subscribers.
Jul 5
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Petar Ivanov
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June 2026
3 Resilience Patterns That Keep a Backend Service Up When Its Dependencies Aren't
Timeout, retry with backoff, and circuit breaker — what each one actually does, and the order to stack them.
Jun 27
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CQRS Without the Astronaut Architecture
You don't need event sourcing or a second database. Just split reads from writes, and finally fix the 20-method service nobody wants to open.
Jun 21
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You're Using React Compound Components Wrong
The most-copied example in every tutorial is the one place you shouldn't use them.
Jun 16
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How to Stop Charging Customers Twice: A Practical Idempotency Guide
Idempotency in plain English: HTTP, message queues, and the one detail that decides whether it's real.
Jun 9
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May 2026
My Frontend Stack In 2026
The tools I actually reach for when building production apps, from framework to the moment a user hits a bug.
May 23
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Stacked PRs: The Code Review Workflow That Changed How I Ship Features
Stacked diffs, the workflow Meta and Google ship on. (7 min)
May 13
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20 Mistakes That Quietly Destroy JavaScript/TypeScript Codebases (Part 2)
Common JS/TS patterns that feel fine until they don't. 11 mistakes, before/after code for each. (11 min)
May 9
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20 Mistakes That Quietly Destroy JavaScript/TypeScript Codebases (Part 1)
Common JS/TS patterns that feel fine until they don't. 11 mistakes, before/after code for each. (11 min)
May 2
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April 2026
ES2025 Features You Should Actually Use
Learn about eight features you must adapt today in your production codebase. (9 min)
Apr 22
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Vertical Slice Architecture in Node.js: One Folder Per Use Case
Why organizing by domain module isn't enough and what to do instead. (8 min)
Apr 11
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