Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Applications that process large amounts of text often run into duplicate content. While exact duplicates are easy to detect using hashes…
June 30, 2026 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
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How Kafka Achieves High Performance Even on Hard Disks
Disk-based design, when done right, can sometimes outperform memory-first systems.
April 24, 2026 · Ben Meehan · 1 views
Golang Crash Course Part 10 — Observability and Distributed Tracing
When you run a backend service locally, debugging is easy. You can print logs, step through the code with a debugger, and see exactly what…
March 6, 2026 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Comparision Timing Attacks: Common Pitfalls and Prevention
Timing attacks are a class of side-channel attacks where an attacker learns sensitive information by measuring how long an operation takes…
January 9, 2026 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Designing Microservices Without Losing Local Development
The moment a service can only run inside a full cluster, the team loses the fastest feedback loop they have.
November 14, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Distributed Algorithms Crash Course — Part 4: Byzantine Fault Tolerance
In the previous part of this series, we explored Paxos, a protocol that achieves consensus even when nodes fail, crash, or restart…
November 9, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Distributed Algorithms Crash Course Part 3 — Paxos Consensus Algorithm
The Paxos consensus algorithm is one of the earliest and most influential distributed consensus protocols, proposed by Computer Scientist…
November 4, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Understanding Change Data Capture (CDC): The Backbone of Real-Time Data Systems
Modern software systems generate and consume massive volumes of data at every moment from financial transactions and IoT sensor readings to…
November 1, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 9 — Pub/Sub and Reliable HTTP Callbacks
Publish/Subscribe is a messaging pattern that decouples message producers (publishers) from consumers (subscribers). The publisher sends…
September 13, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
JavaScript Objects, Prototypes, and Constructor Functions — From Surface to Heap
JavaScript behaves quite differently from traditional object-oriented languages like Java or C++. To truly understand how objects…
July 29, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Simulating Used Car Ownership Cost with Monte Carlo Estimation in Go
Monte Carlo simulation is one of the most practical tools for real-life decision making when you’re faced with uncertainty.
July 13, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 8- gRPC In Detail
In this part, we’ll explore the fundamentals of RPC, why gRPC is a game-changer for modern microservices, and how it leverages HTTP/2 and…
May 4, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
A Comprehensive Guide to MQTT — Part 2: Core Concepts of MQTT
Welcome to Part 2 of our MQTT journey! Last part, we covered the basics of MQTT, including its architecture, publish/subscribe model, and…
March 10, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
A Comprehensive Guide to MQTT — Part 1: Introduction to MQTT
Welcome to A Comprehensive Guide to MQTT, your ultimate resource for mastering the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol.
February 15, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Understanding Go’s Typed Nil
The other day, when I was working on a few tests using Go mocks and testify, I came across an interesting bug in my code that prevented the…
January 25, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 7- Web Development in Go
Go’s built-in net/http package provides everything you need to create a basic web server, handle HTTP requests, and build simple RESTful…
January 24, 2025 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Distributed Algorithms Crash Course Part 2— Raft Consensus Algorithm
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November 13, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Distributed Algorithms Crash Course Part 1 — Types and Examples
Distributed algorithms are algorithms designed to run on multiple interconnected computers or nodes, rather than a single centralized…
November 11, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Unix Sockets 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Inter-Process Communication (IPC)
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October 19, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 10: Event Driven Programming Using Spring Cloud Stream
Event-driven programming (EDP) facilitates responsive and scalable applications by leveraging events to drive system behavior, while Spring…
October 6, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 6- Serialization, Databases and ORMs
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September 29, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 5- Command Line, Cross Compilation and Releasing Applications
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September 21, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 4- Concurrency, Channels and Worker Pools
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September 14, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 9: Batch Processing Using Spring Batch
Spring Batch is a powerful framework designed to support the development of robust batch processing applications. It’s a part of the larger…
August 31, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 3- Interfaces, Generics and Dependency Management
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August 27, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Histograms and the P95 Problem in Prometheus
When designing a Grafana dashboard, one of the most insightful metrics is the percentile of request latencies, such as the 95th percentile…
August 20, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 2- Advanced Data Structures, Packages and Error Handling
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August 17, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Crash Course Part 1- History And The Basics
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August 16, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring will choose the method that handles the more specific exception type.
Spring will choose the method that handles the more specific exception type. As a rule of thumb, If an @ExceptionHandler method matches the exact type of the...
August 13, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Maintaining Consistency in Event Based Systems: Outbox and Inbox Patterns
Asynchronous event-based systems offer scalability and loose coupling between microservices, but they come with the “Dual Write” problem.
July 28, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Building a Distributed Application Tutorial — Part 1: Colors of New Beginnings
Building a distributed application from scratch is a really good way to learn a lot about operating systems, networking and, system design…
June 1, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 8: Integrating Apache Kafka
In this part, we will be integrating Apache Kafka with our Spring Boot application. Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, is the…
April 27, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
GitHub Actions Crash Course: Automate Your Workflows 🚀
GitHub Actions is an automation tool provided by GitHub, allowing you to automate your software development workflows directly within your…
April 23, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 7: Aspect Oriented Programming
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting…
March 9, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Multithreading In-depth Crash Course — Part 2: The Go Scheduler
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February 3, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Golang Multithreading In-depth Crash Course — Part 1: Program, Process and Threads
Hey there! 👋 Welcome to a very in-depth Golang Multithreading Crash Course. Ever wondered how your computer effortlessly handles multiple…
February 2, 2024 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 6: Authentication and Authorization
In this part we will be looking at how to authenticate and authorize users using Spring Boot.
December 30, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 5: Exception Handling
Exception handling is a crucial aspect of any application, and in the context of Spring Boot, it becomes even more important. Spring Boot…
November 26, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 4: REST APIs and Spring Magic
In the last part, we explored how to store, retrieve, modify and delete data easily using Spring Boot. This part will take over from where…
November 21, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 3: Hibernate and Persist
Before delving into the creation of robust APIs, Let’s take a quick diversion to learn about how we can access a database in Spring and…
November 11, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 2: Spring Into The Core
In the last part, we learned about the concepts of dependency injection and inversion of control (Part 1 Link). This part is going to be a…
November 1, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 1: The Journey Begins
Spring Boot is a powerful framework for building Java-based, production-ready applications with minimal fuss. Whether you’re a seasoned…
October 29, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
How to Setup AWS Locally Using LocalStack Without Spending a Buck
Are you looking to learn AWS, develop and test your AWS applications locally, without incurring the costs of using the actual AWS cloud? If…
September 30, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
System Design: Distributed Cloud File Sync Service like OneDrive
A cloud file sync service, often referred to as a file synchronization or file syncing service, allows users to store and synchronize their…
August 20, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
System Design Mistakes: Storing JWTs
JSON Web Tokens, or JWTs, are compact and self-contained data structures that serve as a means of transmitting information securely between…
August 5, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Happiness is here, Now.
Live in the moment. Neither in the past nor in the future. That is what it truly means to live.
July 14, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Remembering Yahoo Pipes: Web Automation Pioneer of a Bygone Era
and the lessons it teaches about the importance of monetization and adapting to technological change
June 21, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Writing a multi-language online compiler for VS Code Part 3: Docker and Free Hosting
In the Last Part, we wrote the Golang service that will compile the code and give us the output through an API request.
June 17, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Writing a multi-language online compiler for VS Code Part 2: Compilation Service
In Part 1, we looked at how the whole system is structured. In this part, we will write a Golang compilation service that will compile C++…
June 11, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Writing a multi-language online compiler for VS Code Part 1: The Architecture
I like to write my code in Visual Studio Code. And sometimes installing and setting up the compiler for some languages and getting it…
June 10, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Exploring SVGs and Generating Vector Art with ChatGPT
Today, we’re embarking on an exciting journey into the realm of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) and exploring how we can use our friendly…
May 26, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views
Writing a high performance, file-based. persistent cache in Golang
This post describes how you can write your own file-based cache in Golang, similar to Nginx, that can cache anything from frequently used…
February 11, 2023 · Ben Meehan · 0 views