Eventual consistency explained for engineers who still get it wrong in production
Stop treating eventual consistency as a bug. Learn how to architect robust IoT pipelines that embrace asynchronous state convergence to avoid platform downtime.
cloud-engineeringdistributed-systemsgcpdata-engineering
31 July 2026
Read replicas will not solve the problems you think they solve
Read replicas reduce load on the primary database. They do not fix slow queries, and they introduce replication lag that produces correctness bugs in applications that assume they are reading current data.
databasespostgresqlperformancebackend
21 July 2026
Building a personalised recommendation engine with embeddings
Embedding-based recommendation systems outperform collaborative filtering at cold-start and can be built entirely with open-source tools. This guide walks through the full pipeline: generating item and user embeddings, storing them in pgvector, and serving low-latency personalised recommendations in production.
embeddingsrecommendationsvector-searchpgvectorpersonalization
16 July 2026