Notes from the trenches on architecture, engineering, and shipping software. Written by Palakorn Voramongkol, Software Engineer Specialist based in Bangkok, Thailand.https://palakorn.com/enhttps://palakorn.com/blog/gitflow-and-branching-strategies/https://palakorn.com/blog/gitflow-and-branching-strategies/GitFlow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, and trunk-based development — what each is, when each fits, concrete branch diagrams, the release ceremonies they imply, and how to actually pick one in 2026.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGitBranchingWorkflowRelease ManagementEngineering ManagementPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/github-actions-deployment-best-practices/https://palakorn.com/blog/github-actions-deployment-best-practices/How to build deploy workflows that are fast, safe, and survive the 3 a.m. incident — secrets, environments, OIDC, caching, rollback, SSH vs runner-based, and the anti-patterns that catch every team once.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDevOpsCI/CDGitHub ActionsDeploymentAutomationPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/basic-git-commands-every-software-engineer-should-know/https://palakorn.com/blog/basic-git-commands-every-software-engineer-should-know/The thirty-something git commands you actually use day-to-day — staging, branching, merging, rebasing, recovering from mistakes, and the small set of aliases worth setting up once.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGitEngineeringToolsProductivityWorkflowPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/pmbok-situations-playbook/https://palakorn.com/blog/pmbok-situations-playbook/Real project-management situations — scope creep, budget cuts, people leaving, vendors failing, deadlines shifting, compliance landing — each with step-by-step moves, the exact documents that must change, and best/worst case outcomes.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProject ManagementPMBOKDeliveryPlaybookEngineering ManagementPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/blockchain-from-scratch-technical-intro-with-toy-app/https://palakorn.com/blog/blockchain-from-scratch-technical-intro-with-toy-app/A ground-up, technical introduction to blockchains — hashes, blocks, Merkle trees, proof-of-work, consensus — paired with a ~200-line TypeScript toy chain you can run, fork, and break. The version of the explanation that assumes you're a developer, not an investor.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBlockchainCryptographyDistributed SystemsBeginnerBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/flowchart-diagram-guide/https://palakorn.com/blog/flowchart-diagram-guide/A structural, symbol-by-symbol guide to flowcharts — ANSI/ISO 5807 shapes with real meanings, when each one applies, how to lay out process, swim-lane, and data-flow diagrams, and ready-to-copy Mermaid examples.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureProcess DesignDocumentationDiagramsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/kafka-for-beginners-producer-consumer-4-languages/https://palakorn.com/blog/kafka-for-beginners-producer-consumer-4-languages/A ground-up introduction to Apache Kafka — what it actually is, the handful of features that matter, the use cases it's genuinely good at, and working producer/consumer snippets in four languages so you can run your first topic in under ten minutes.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTKafkaEvent StreamingBeginnerBackendMessagingPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/pmbok-project-management-framework-guide/https://palakorn.com/blog/pmbok-project-management-framework-guide/A practitioner's walk through PMBOK — the five process groups, the ten knowledge areas, and, for each part, the inputs that feed it and the artifacts that come out. The bits you actually keep on a shelf.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProject ManagementPMBOKProcessDeliveryEngineering ManagementPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/redis-for-beginners-commands-patterns-4-languages/https://palakorn.com/blog/redis-for-beginners-commands-patterns-4-languages/A ground-up introduction to Redis — what it actually is, the handful of data structures that matter, the use cases it's genuinely good at, and working client snippets in four languages so you can run your first cache, queue, and pub/sub in under ten minutes.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTRedisCacheBeginnerBackendIn-MemoryPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/security-attacks-every-engineer-should-know/https://palakorn.com/blog/security-attacks-every-engineer-should-know/A structural, named-technique-by-named-technique walkthrough of the attacks a modern web application has to defend against — injection, authentication flaws, XSS, CSRF, IDOR, SSRF, deserialization, race conditions, supply-chain attacks, and more — with how each works and what to do about it.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityArchitectureOWASPBest PracticesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/solid-principles-for-developers/https://palakorn.com/blog/solid-principles-for-developers/Five principles that separate code you can still touch in six months from code that becomes a minefield. Each principle explained in plain English with before/after code in TypeScript, Java, Python, and C#.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftware DesignClean CodeOOPArchitectureTypeScriptJavaPythonC#Palakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/testing-strategy-production-systems/https://palakorn.com/blog/testing-strategy-production-systems/Unit, integration, contract, and e2e — when each actually pays off, the modern test pyramid, and a practical policy for flaky tests. Concrete advice for a service that ships.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTestingArchitectureQualityCI/CDNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/observability-opentelemetry-guide/https://palakorn.com/blog/observability-opentelemetry-guide/Instrumenting a production Node.js service for traces, metrics, and logs with OpenTelemetry — plus correlation by trace ID, exporter choices, and what breaks in production.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservabilityOpenTelemetryBackendDevOpsNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/zero-downtime-database-migrations/https://palakorn.com/blog/zero-downtime-database-migrations/How to change a production schema without taking traffic down — expand/contract, backfills, dual-writes, online DDL, and the migrations that always bite you.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDatabasePostgreSQLDevOpsArchitectureBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/feature-flags-progressive-delivery/https://palakorn.com/blog/feature-flags-progressive-delivery/From kill switches to percentage rollouts — how to decouple deploy from release, evaluate self-hosted vs SaaS flag platforms, and keep flag debt from eating your codebase.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDevOpsCI/CDArchitectureFeature FlagsNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/owasp-top-10-nodejs-nextjs/https://palakorn.com/blog/owasp-top-10-nodejs-nextjs/The 2021 OWASP Top 10, but with actual vulnerable Node.js and Next.js snippets and the fixes I ship in production. Concrete examples beat awareness posters.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityNode.jsNext.jsWeb DevelopmentOWASPPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/caching-strategies-beyond-redis/https://palakorn.com/blog/caching-strategies-beyond-redis/Cache-aside, write-through, write-behind, read-replicas, edge caches, HTTP ETags, and stale-while-revalidate — how to pick the right caching pattern and how to invalidate without tears.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerformanceArchitectureRedisBackendWeb DevelopmentPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/production-rag-system/https://palakorn.com/blog/production-rag-system/Chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, citation, and evaluation — a practical guide to building a RAG pipeline that survives real traffic and messy documents.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAILLMRAGPythonArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/llm-evaluation-guardrails-production/https://palakorn.com/blog/llm-evaluation-guardrails-production/How to test prompts, catch regressions, score outputs, and defend against prompt injection — with a small eval harness you can ship this week.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAILLMTestingProductionPythonPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/monorepo-strategy-pnpm-turbo-nx/https://palakorn.com/blog/monorepo-strategy-pnpm-turbo-nx/When a monorepo pays off, which toolchain to pick, and what a sensible layout looks like for a small-to-mid team — pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Nx, and the newer options.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonorepoDevOpsTypeScriptArchitectureToolingPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/cqrs-event-sourcing-tradeoffs/https://palakorn.com/blog/cqrs-event-sourcing-tradeoffs/When CQRS pays off, when Event Sourcing makes it worse, and when plain CRUD is the right call. With TypeScript examples and the anti-patterns to avoid.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureCQRSEvent SourcingDDDBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/backpressure-async-systems/https://palakorn.com/blog/backpressure-async-systems/When a producer outpaces its consumer — Node streams, Go channels, Rust async, RxJS, and Kafka consumer lag. The patterns that actually keep memory in check.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerformanceBackendNode.jsGoRustPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/strangler-fig-legacy-migration/https://palakorn.com/blog/strangler-fig-legacy-migration/A realistic playbook for replacing a legacy system in place — routing, dual-write, shared data, team slicing, and the order of operations that actually ships.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureLegacyMigrationDevOpsRefactoringPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/postgresql-internals-mvcc-vacuum/https://palakorn.com/blog/postgresql-internals-mvcc-vacuum/How Postgres actually stores rows — tuples, xmin/xmax, HOT updates, table bloat, and why VACUUM is the most misunderstood command in your database.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTPostgreSQLDatabasePerformanceBackendInternalsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/code-review-commit-hygiene/https://palakorn.com/blog/code-review-commit-hygiene/Conventional Commits, small PRs, review culture, and the PR templates people actually fill out — how to review code so the next developer (including future-you) can still move fast.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringGitCode ReviewTeam CultureDevOpsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/api-endpoint-design-best-practices/https://palakorn.com/blog/api-endpoint-design-best-practices/A comprehensive guide to RESTful API endpoint design — covering HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE), URL structure, status codes, pagination patterns, error handling with RFC 7807, and real-world implementations in TypeScript, Java, Python, and C#.Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAPIBackendArchitectureRESTPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/database-diagrams-design-guide/https://palakorn.com/blog/database-diagrams-design-guide/A comprehensive guide to database diagrams — covering ERD notations (Chen, Crow's Foot, UML), drawing with Mermaid and PlantUML, real-world schema examples, and best practices for documenting database designs.Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTDatabaseArchitecturePostgreSQLData EngineeringPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-jwt-service-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-jwt-service-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to JWT for service-to-service authentication — covering signed JWTs between services, asymmetric keys (RS256/ES256) for distributed verification, token propagation patterns, and Node.js implementation.Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-service-mesh-identity/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-service-mesh-identity/A comprehensive guide to SPIFFE/SPIRE for workload identity in microservices — covering SPIFFE ID format, SVIDs, SPIRE architecture and components, Istio/Envoy integration, and zero-trust networking patterns.Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-oauth2-client-credentials/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-oauth2-client-credentials/A comprehensive implementation guide to OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant for machine-to-machine authentication — covering the client credentials flow, token caching and refresh, scope and audience validation, and Node.js implementation with multiple identity providers.Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-api-keys-hmac-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-api-keys-hmac-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to API key and HMAC signature authentication — covering API key generation and storage, HMAC request signing inspired by AWS Signature V4, Node.js implementation, rate limiting, and key rotation strategies.Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-mtls-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-mtls-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to Mutual TLS (mTLS) for service-to-service authentication — covering certificate chains, CA setup, certificate rotation, Node.js and Go implementations, Kubernetes cert-manager integration, and production patterns.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/server-to-server-authentication-microservices/https://palakorn.com/blog/server-to-server-authentication-microservices/A high-level comparison of five authentication patterns for service-to-service communication — mTLS, API Keys & HMAC, OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials, Service Mesh Identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE), and JWT — covering when to use each, trade-offs, and real-world examples.Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityMicroservicesArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-websocket-sse-communication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-websocket-sse-communication/A comprehensive guide to WebSocket and Server-Sent Events for real-time communication — covering the WebSocket protocol, SSE, scaling persistent connections, heartbeats, reconnection, and production patterns.Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendWebSocketReal-timePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-graphql-federation/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-graphql-federation/A comprehensive guide to GraphQL Federation for server-to-server communication — covering schema composition, subgraph design, entity resolution, the gateway router, performance optimization, and production deployment.Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendGraphQLMicroservicesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-event-streaming-kafka/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-event-streaming-kafka/A comprehensive guide to event streaming with Apache Kafka — covering topics, partitions, consumer groups, exactly-once semantics, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, and production deployment patterns.Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendKafkaDistributed SystemsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-message-queue-communication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-message-queue-communication/A comprehensive guide to message queues for server-to-server communication — covering RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, delivery guarantees, dead-letter queues, backpressure, and production patterns.Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendMessagingMicroservicesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-grpc-communication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-grpc-communication/A comprehensive guide to gRPC for server-to-server communication — covering Protocol Buffers, service definitions, streaming patterns, interceptors, error handling, load balancing, and production deployment.Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendgRPCMicroservicesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-rest-api-communication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-rest-api-communication/A comprehensive guide to REST API for server-to-server communication — covering API design principles, HTTP semantics, authentication patterns, error handling, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and production best practices.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendAPIMicroservicesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/server-to-server-communication-technologies/https://palakorn.com/blog/server-to-server-communication-technologies/A high-level comparison of server-to-server communication patterns — REST, gRPC, Message Queues, Event Streaming, GraphQL Federation, and WebSocket/SSE — covering when to use each, trade-offs, and real-world use cases.Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureBackendMicroservicesDistributed SystemsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-mfa-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-mfa-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to multi-factor authentication — covering TOTP setup, backup codes, SMS verification, hardware security keys, adaptive MFA, and recovery strategies.Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-passwordless-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-passwordless-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to passwordless authentication — covering magic email links, SMS OTP, WebAuthn/FIDO2 passkeys, implementation patterns, and security considerations.Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-oauth2-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-oauth2-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to OAuth 2.0 — covering authorization flows, OpenID Connect, implementing Google and GitHub login, token management, and enterprise SSO patterns.Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-jwt-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-jwt-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to JWT authentication — covering token structure, signing algorithms, access/refresh token patterns, middleware implementation, token revocation strategies, and security best practices.Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-session-based-authentication/https://palakorn.com/blog/deep-dive-session-based-authentication/A comprehensive implementation guide to session-based authentication — covering how sessions work under the hood, server-side storage strategies, cookie security, scaling with Redis, and production best practices.Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/authentication-strategies-modern-web-apps/https://palakorn.com/blog/authentication-strategies-modern-web-apps/A high-level comparison of modern authentication approaches — Session-based, JWT, OAuth 2.0, Passwordless, and MFA — covering when to use each, trade-offs, and real-world use cases.Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticationSecurityBackendArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/flutter-react-native-cross-platform-2025/https://palakorn.com/blog/flutter-react-native-cross-platform-2025/A detailed technical comparison of Flutter and React Native in 2025, covering architecture, performance, developer experience, ecosystem maturity, and real-world project considerations.Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTMobileFlutterReact NativeCross-PlatformPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/monitoring-observability-stack-production/https://palakorn.com/blog/monitoring-observability-stack-production/Monitoring tells you something is broken. Observability tells you why. Here's the stack and methodology I use to instrument production systems — from metrics and logs to traces and alerting that doesn't wake you up at 3 AM for nothing.Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTDevOpsMonitoringInfrastructureBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/system-design-interview-patterns/https://palakorn.com/blog/system-design-interview-patterns/Essential system design patterns for senior engineers, covering load balancing, caching strategies, database sharding, message queues, rate limiting, circuit breaker, CQRS, and event sourcing with practical architectural examples.Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureSystem DesignBackendInfrastructurePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/typescript-patterns-large-codebases/https://palakorn.com/blog/typescript-patterns-large-codebases/TypeScript at scale requires different patterns than TypeScript for a side project. Here are the type patterns and architectural decisions that keep large codebases maintainable, based on managing 200K+ line TypeScript projects.Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptArchitectureFrontendBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/ai-integration-production-apps/https://palakorn.com/blog/ai-integration-production-apps/A comprehensive guide to integrating LLMs and AI models into production applications, covering architecture patterns, cost optimization, fallback strategies, prompt engineering, RAG systems, monitoring, and critical considerations.Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIMachine LearningProductionArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-design-principles/https://palakorn.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-design-principles/A well-designed CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of engineering velocity. Here are the design principles I follow after building and maintaining pipelines for teams ranging from 3 to 50 developers.Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTDevOpsCI/CDGitHub ActionsInfrastructurePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/react-server-components-practical-patterns/https://palakorn.com/blog/react-server-components-practical-patterns/Server Components change the mental model of React development. After building two production apps with RSC, here are the patterns that work, the pitfalls to avoid, and when client components are still the right call.Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTReactNext.jsFrontendPerformancePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/postgresql-performance-tuning-production/https://palakorn.com/blog/postgresql-performance-tuning-production/After optimizing PostgreSQL for three high-traffic production systems, I've compiled the tuning strategies that actually moved the needle — from indexing patterns to connection pooling and query optimization.Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTPostgreSQLDatabasePerformanceBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/docker-compose-to-kubernetes-migration-guide/https://palakorn.com/blog/docker-compose-to-kubernetes-migration-guide/Migrating from Docker Compose to Kubernetes doesn't have to be a big-bang rewrite. Here's the incremental approach I've used across three production migrations — with real configs and hard-won lessons.Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTKubernetesDockerDevOpsInfrastructurePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/building-scalable-b2b-platforms-microservices/https://palakorn.com/blog/building-scalable-b2b-platforms-microservices/After shipping three B2B SaaS platforms from scratch, I've learned that microservices aren't a silver bullet — but applied correctly, they let small teams move fast without stepping on each other. Here's the architecture playbook I return to again and again.Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureMicroservicesNode.jsKubernetesPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/why-rust-changed-how-i-think-about-backend-performance/https://palakorn.com/blog/why-rust-changed-how-i-think-about-backend-performance/After shipping a 50k RPS service in Rust, I returned to Node.js with a completely different mental model for performance. This is the story of memory models, threading, and why your async runtime is both better and worse than you think.Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTRustPerformanceBackendSystems ProgrammingPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/api-design-rest-best-practices/https://palakorn.com/blog/api-design-rest-best-practices/Designing APIs that developers actually enjoy using requires more than following REST conventions. After building and consuming dozens of APIs, here are the principles that matter most — from URL design to pagination, versioning, and error handling.Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTAPI DesignRESTBackendNode.jsPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/from-jquery-to-react-20-years-of-frontend-evolution/https://palakorn.com/blog/from-jquery-to-react-20-years-of-frontend-evolution/I've been writing JavaScript since 1999. jQuery felt like magic. React feels inevitable. This is the story of how we went from DOM manipulation to declarative UIs, and why the future probably isn't React.Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTJavaScriptFrontendReactWeb HistoryPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/state-management-react-2025/https://palakorn.com/blog/state-management-react-2025/The React state management landscape has matured significantly. After evaluating every major solution across multiple production apps, here's a pragmatic guide to choosing the right tool — and why you probably need less than you think.Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTReactState ManagementFrontendArchitecturePalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/machine-learning-production-fastapi/https://palakorn.com/blog/machine-learning-production-fastapi/Training an ML model is the easy part. Serving it reliably in production — with proper input validation, versioning, monitoring, and scaling — is where the real engineering happens. Here's a battle-tested approach using FastAPI.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTMachine LearningPythonFastAPIBackendPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/real-time-data-pipelines-lessons-from-production/https://palakorn.com/blog/real-time-data-pipelines-lessons-from-production/Real-time data pipelines sound simple: ingest data, process it, serve results. In production with gigabytes per second, every architectural decision compounds. These are the lessons learned the hard way.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTData EngineeringReal-timeProductionKafkaPalakorn Voramongkolhttps://palakorn.com/blog/nextjs-full-stack-production-checklist/https://palakorn.com/blog/nextjs-full-stack-production-checklist/Launching a Next.js application to production is more than just running next build. After deploying six Next.js apps to production, here's the comprehensive checklist I wish I had from the start — covering performance, security, SEO, and operational readiness.Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTNext.jsReactPerformanceDevOpsPalakorn Voramongkol