Software
When a backend is young, everything feels fast: one service, a few routes, everyone knows where things live. A year later, the same service is handling alerts, audits, preferences, billing hooks, experiment flags, and “just one more feature” after every sprint. Regression risk climbs, onboarding slows, and even small refactors
Software
When a streaming backend is designed well, it feels effortless: memory stays flat, latency is predictable, and reconnect storms are just another Tuesday. Even as traffic grows and features pile up, the pipeline keeps behaving like a well-tuned instrument instead of a fragile chain of patches. A pattern that consistently
Software
Real-time apps are at their best when they feel calm. Numbers update, charts glide, tiles pulse with new information—but nothing spikes, freezes, or drifts. The UI feels more like a live instrument panel than a slideshow. To get there, though, you need more than a WebSocket and a couple
Python
Deploying Flask used to mean spinning up EC2, setting up load balancers, managing patches, and monitoring scaling groups. With Zappa, it's one command: zappa deploy production. That's it. Your Flask app is live, auto-scaling, and costing pennies. Serverless is a practical, cost-efficient way to ship backend