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Implementing API Rate Limiting With Upstash and Next.js

May 21, 2023

Rate limiting is an important concept when developing APIs, but it can also be a little scary if you've never done it before. In this article, I'm going to show you how simple it is to implement API rate limiting with Upstash and Next.js.

Big O Notation and an example at Amazon scale

February 2, 2023

In computer science, Big O Notation describes how the runtime of an algorithm scales as its input size gets bigger. This matters a lot, especially when you're dealing with the scale of a company like Amazon.

How I 2x my website's deployments migrating to Vite

January 2, 2023

I started this site nearly 2 years ago using Create React App when I didn't know any better. Yesterday I migrated to Vite and was amazed by the performance and DX gains without putting in that much work.

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