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Real-time systems.
Practical notes, patterns, and lessons from building reliable products in this space.
Commerce · Localstreet · Realtime
Building realtime hyperlocal commerce
The engineering model behind live neighborhood commerce: merchant-friendly inventory, order state machines, conflict handling, and resilient realtime delivery.
Read article →Systems · Performance · Realtime
Latency is a feature
Why realtime products need explicit latency budgets, end-to-end measurement, and an architecture that treats waiting as a product defect.
Read article →Postgres · Reliability · Backend
Postgres as a queue
How to build a dependable job queue with SKIP LOCKED, leases, retries, and idempotency—and how to recognize when the database is no longer enough.
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