Nexifer Labs helps startups and businesses validate, build, and launch modern web, mobile, AI, and cloud products. https://www.nexifer.com en-us Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:16:38 GMT https://www.nexifer.com/blog/prisma-in-production/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/prisma-in-production/ Where Prisma's schema-first workflow pays off in production, which costs it moves onto your team, and the query shapes that still belong in SQL. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team prisma postgres databases https://www.nexifer.com/blog/background-jobs-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/background-jobs-in-practice/ Transactional enqueue, idempotency, retry strategy and dead-letter handling - plus database queues, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS and workflow engines compared. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team queues backend architecture reliability distributed-systems https://www.nexifer.com/blog/database-indexing-properly/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/database-indexing-properly/ How B-trees work, why composite column order decides everything, and the twelve specific reasons a perfectly good index gets ignored by the query planner. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team databases postgresql mysql performance sql https://www.nexifer.com/blog/database-migrations-without-downtime/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/database-migrations-without-downtime/ Lock queues, expand and contract, safe recipes for every common ALTER TABLE, batched backfills, and the CI checks that stop unsafe migrations reaching prod. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team databases postgresql mysql devops reliability https://www.nexifer.com/blog/docker-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/docker-in-practice/ A working guide to Docker - how containers function, Dockerfiles that build fast, Compose, security defaults worth changing, and the downsides nobody mentions. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team docker devops containers infrastructure security https://www.nexifer.com/blog/git-properly/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/git-properly/ A detailed guide to Git - what it actually stores, the everyday commands, rebasing, undoing mistakes, bisect, large repos, and what Git 3.0 changes. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team git version-control devops tooling workflow https://www.nexifer.com/blog/graphql-in-2026/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/graphql-in-2026/ Schema design, resolvers, N+1, caching, federation, security and complexity limits - an honest account of what GraphQL costs and when it pays for itself. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team graphql api-design rest backend architecture https://www.nexifer.com/blog/grpc-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/grpc-in-practice/ Protocol Buffers, streaming, service contracts, browser limits, observability and versioning - what gRPC costs, and when plain HTTP APIs are enough. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team grpc api-design protobuf backend architecture https://www.nexifer.com/blog/nginx-properly/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/nginx-properly/ A working guide to nginx - the process model, location matching, reverse proxy and cache patterns, rate limiting, debugging, and what changed this year. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team nginx devops infrastructure performance security https://www.nexifer.com/blog/postgresql-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/postgresql-in-practice/ A working guide to PostgreSQL 18 - JSONB, indexes, EXPLAIN, queues, full-text and vector search, production operations, and a learning path that works. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team postgresql databases sql backend performance https://www.nexifer.com/blog/python-in-2026/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/python-in-2026/ A working guide to modern Python - uv, type hints, asyncio, free-threading, performance, production tooling, and an honest look at where it falls short. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team python backend performance tooling data https://www.nexifer.com/blog/redis-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/redis-in-practice/ A working guide to Redis - data structures, expiry and eviction, persistence, caching and locking patterns, security, and the Valkey licensing split. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team redis databases caching backend infrastructure https://www.nexifer.com/blog/rest-apis-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/rest-apis-in-practice/ How to design REST APIs you can still change in three years - breaking-change rules, cursor pagination, RFC 9457 errors, and contracts enforced in CI. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team api-design rest http backend architecture https://www.nexifer.com/blog/sql-transactions-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/sql-transactions-in-practice/ What each isolation level really prevents, why Repeatable Read still allows write skew, how deadlocks happen, and how to write a retry loop that works. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team databases postgresql mysql sql reliability https://www.nexifer.com/blog/websockets-properly/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/websockets-properly/ Connection lifecycle, authentication, reconnects, presence, horizontal scaling with Redis, backpressure and failure handling - the parts demos leave out. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team websockets real-time backend architecture infrastructure https://www.nexifer.com/blog/bun-in-production/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/bun-in-production/ A practical look at Bun 1.3.14 - what the all-in-one JavaScript runtime does well, where it still breaks, and how to decide if it belongs in production. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team bun javascript typescript nodejs tooling https://www.nexifer.com/blog/hono-in-practice/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/hono-in-practice/ A working guide to Hono 4.13 - Web Standards routing, typed validation, the RPC client, deployment across runtimes, and where the framework falls short. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team hono typescript api web-standards backend https://www.nexifer.com/blog/nextjs-in-2026/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/nextjs-in-2026/ A working guide to Next.js 16 - Cache Components, Turbopack, Server Functions, self-hosting, the security cadence, and what the upgrade actually costs. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team nextjs react typescript frontend performance https://www.nexifer.com/blog/quic-and-http3/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/quic-and-http3/ How QUIC works, why HTTP/3 wins on mobile and loses on fast fixed lines, how to deploy it on nginx or a CDN, and what to measure afterwards. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team quic http3 networking performance web-standards https://www.nexifer.com/blog/rust-honestly/ https://www.nexifer.com/blog/rust-honestly/ Why Rust keeps replacing C, C++ and JavaScript tooling - the safety and speed case, the real costs, and how to adopt it without betting the company. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT team rust systems performance security tooling