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I switched from MongoDB to PostgreSQL after years of document queries, and it stuck. This is the practical walkthrough covering the pg library setup, connection pooling, parameterized queries, error handling, transactions, and the pool config I actually run in production.
I burned a lot of hours on cache invalidation before I figured out which Redis patterns actually hold up under load. Here's what I settled on after running caching in production across several Node.js services.
I've been asked about the event loop more than any other Node.js topic. Here's how I finally made sense of it -- why Node can juggle thousands of connections on one thread, and the mistakes I kept making that blocked it.
I've set up CI/CD on Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, and GitLab. GitHub Actions is the one I actually enjoy using. Here's how to build a pipeline that catches bugs, runs fast, and deploys without babysitting.
Kubernetes has a reputation for being complicated, and honestly, it is. But for Node.js developers shipping production apps that need to scale, it's become unavoidable. Here's the practical guide that covers what actually matters.
Running Node.js without Nginx in production is like running a database without backups. Here's how I set up a reverse proxy that handles the stuff Node shouldn't be doing.