Ever found yourself in that awkward situation where your application is screaming for more performance, but adding more servers just makes things slower? Yeah, welcome to the cache club. Today, we’re diving headfirst into the world of distributed caching with Hazelcast and Go—a combination that’ll make your database breathe a sigh of relief and your users smile with glee. The Caching Awakening: Why We’re Here Let’s be honest: databases are like that friend who’s always available but takes forever to show up....

There’s a particular moment in every developer’s career when you realize something truly unsettling: the applications that look the simplest are often the most deceptively complex underneath. It’s like discovering that your neighbor’s modest suburban home actually contains a secret laboratory. Your simple CRUD application? It’s probably sitting on a foundation of architectural decisions that would make a senior engineer weep into their cold brew. Let me tell you a story....

If your web application were a restaurant, caching would be like having a prep station. Instead of cooking every dish from scratch each time someone orders it, you prepare popular items ahead of time. Your customers get their meals faster, your kitchen isn’t overwhelmed, and everyone goes home happy. Except, you know, in the digital world, servers don’t go home—they just crash instead. Let me be honest: caching is one of those topics that sounds boring on the surface....

The Pattern Obsession I’ll be honest with you: I’ve been there. You know that feeling when you discover a shiny new design pattern and suddenly everything in your codebase looks like a nail waiting for that particular hammer? Welcome to the pattern obsession—a disease that’s infected codebases across the globe for the better part of three decades. Here’s the uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to admit in those architecture meetings: design patterns are not holy scripture....

If you’ve ever wondered what happens on the “other side” of web security—where the good guys break things intentionally—you’re about to embark on a fascinating journey. Ethical hacking for web applications is essentially the art of thinking like a criminal to prevent actual crimes. It’s authorized chaos in a structured format, and unlike actual hacking, nobody sends you to jail. Pretty sweet deal, right? Why Should You Care About Web Application Security?...