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Microservices Promised Agility. Nobody Warned You About the Payload Tax.

The move to microservices was supposed to make your architecture leaner and faster. Instead, a lot of teams ended up with API responses that are 30–50% heavier than their monolith days, thanks to aggregation overhead, duplicated fields, and distributed N+1 patterns. Let's talk about what actually went wrong — and how to fix it.

Sep 10, 2026

AV1 vs. H.264 vs. the Rest: A Developer's No-Nonsense Guide to Picking a Video Format in 2024

Choosing a video format in 2024 feels like picking a side in a format war that's been running since before most of your junior devs were in high school. We ran the tests, crunched the numbers, and built a decision tree so you don't have to argue about it in Slack anymore.

Jul 20, 2026