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How we deploy, what we measure, and the infrastructure trade-offs that actually matter in production.

02 Engineering Jul 30, 2026

Running a production API with 1M requests/day

A million requests a day is about twelve requests a second — the number is a milestone, not a crisis. What actually keeps an API healthy at that volume is boring: the database, the queue, the cache, and an honest p99. Here is our playbook.

06 Architecture Jul 10, 2026

Edge vs serverless: when to use each

Edge functions and region-based serverless look similar on a feature matrix and behave nothing alike under load. Here is a practical decision procedure for choosing between them, and the hybrid pattern that works best.