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Articles tagged with #backend-engineering
This weekend, I didn’t binge-watch anything.I stress-tested my own DNS server. For the past few months, I’ve been building NexoralDNS — a UDP-based DNS server focused on performance, analytics, and control. Not a wrapper. Not a proxy. A real packet-l...
Today was not meant to be educational. It was meant to be safe. I work as a full-time software engineer at Hoichoi, building backend systems that power a production platform used by millions — you probably know it as https://hoichoi.tv. And when you’...
Every backend system that deals with logs eventually hits the same problem: Data keeps growing, storage keeps increasing, and nobody wants to own cleanup. In my case, it was DNS analytics logs in NexoralDNS. High-volume.Write-heavy.Low long-term va...
Most engineers don’t “learn” advanced database features. They run into them after their system starts misbehaving. This is not a MongoDB tutorial.This is an honest account of how MongoDB collection.watch() (Change Streams) saved my NexoralDNS project...
