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Nov 1

MongoDB or Cassandra? What Happens When a Celebrity With 200 Million Followers Joins Your App

I had a question stuck in my head recently that I couldn’t shake: if you built a social app on MongoDB, and a celebrity with 200 million…

MongoDB or Cassandra? What Happens When a Celebrity With 200 Million Followers Joins Your App

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Oct 20

Bun, Vite+, and Node: Should you actually switch?

Every JavaScript project I’ve set up has started the same way. Install Node. Pick a package manager. Add Vite or webpack. Add Vitest or…

Bun, Vite+, and Node: Should you actually switch?

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Oct 4

Partial Prerendering: Mixing Static Shells with Dynamic Holes

Static or dynamic? Why not both?

Partial Prerendering: Mixing Static Shells with Dynamic Holes

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 20

Redis or Memcached?: A Love Story With Two Very Different Endings

Every backend engineer eventually hits the same wall: the database is sweating, response times are creeping up, and someone in a standup…

Redis or Memcached?: A Love Story With Two Very Different Endings

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 15

Netflix Pays a Monkey to Wreck Its Own Servers

Somewhere in Netflix’s infrastructure there’s a programme that spends its day killing live servers — ones actively streaming video to…

Netflix Pays a Monkey to Wreck Its Own Servers

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 13

The Four Steps of Deleting a Node From a Linked List (and the One Everyone Skips)

A small operation that quietly teaches you how to think like a programmer.

The Four Steps of Deleting a Node From a Linked List (and the One Everyone Skips)

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 9

Is Learning to Code Still Worth It in 2026? The Honest Truth Nobody Wants to Give You

Scroll through your feed for ten minutes, and you’ll meet two confident strangers.

Is Learning to Code Still Worth It in 2026? The Honest Truth Nobody Wants to Give You

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 8

One Protocol to Plug Them All: MCP, Finally Explained

There are two ways people usually explain the Model Context Protocol, and both leave you hungry. One is the bumper sticker: "It's USB for…

One Protocol to Plug Them All: MCP, Finally Explained

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 7

Every Couple of Minutes, Discord Would Stutter

What garbage collection actually costs you, why C and Go don’t quite settle it, and where Rust fits in.

Every Couple of Minutes, Discord Would Stutter

Dennis Peter Munyao

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Sep 6

How Rust Manages Memory Without a Garbage Collector

Rust’s big claim is memory safety without a garbage collector, at roughly C-level speed. The thing that makes it work is ownership. Once…

How Rust Manages Memory Without a Garbage Collector

Dennis Peter Munyao

Dennis Peter Munyaohe/him

Engineer by profession, coder by passion. I solve complex problems, write clean code, and share insights on software development and tech trends.

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