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March 7, 20262 min read6 views

Streams: The Engineering Behind Live Video, APIs, and Scalable Backends.

When you watch a live football match online or join a video call, the platform isn’t sending the entire video at once. The video and audio are broken into small packets of data that continuously flow

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May 4, 20251 min read7 views

Database operations are central to backend development. While SQL handles database interactions directly, ORMs act as translators, letting developers work with databases using familiar programming concepts instead of writing SQL queries. For NodeJS applications, Prisma and TypeORM stand out as popular open-source choices.

I personally find Prisma more developer-friendly despite TypeORM's flexibility for complex operations. Prisma's straightforward approach to data models has made my development faster and less error-pr

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