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Before I write a single line of code, I sit down and figure out one thing — how my collections talk to each other. I got this wrong early on, and it caused me real headaches later. So let me show you
When I was designing my database schema, I made two mistakes that seemed logical at the time. Both would have caused real problems at scale. Let me walk through them so you don't have to learn the har
Adding live streaming to a platform sounds complex, but from a database design perspective it's just a few new collections. Let me show you what I came up with and why each field exists. What Live St
When I started building my backend, I put everything in one place — user logic, video logic, comments, subscriptions — all in one codebase, one server, one deployment. That's called a monolithic archi
When I was designing my platform's backend, one question kept coming up — if I have multiple services running, how does a request from the client know where to go? And if one service has multiple inst
There's a moment when you're building a backend where you realize that not everything needs to happen immediately. A user uploads a video — do they need to wait 2 minutes for it to be transcoded befor
