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Not CGI. Just Tesla.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

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New iPhone prices in India are out….

18 Pro starts at ₹1,64,900
18 Pro Max at ₹1,79,900 and
new foldable Duo at ₹2,99,900

They’ve also hiked the older models. iPhone 17 is now ₹99,900. 🙏

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 iPhone new prices in India.

iPhone 18 Pro - Rs 1,64,900/- (256 GB)
iPhone 18 Pro Max - Rs 1,79,900/- (256 GB)

iPhone Duo foldable starts at Rs 2,99,900/-

iPhone 17 also increased to Rs 99,900/-

Apple has increased iPhone prices by around 20% 🙏🏽

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Surprise and shine.

#AppleEvent

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@IndianTechGuide Companies are not going to be stop hiring. They will just move more of the work to India or go fully remote.

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$100k+ just to bring someone in on an H-1B now.

idk how companies are gonna handle that🤔

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump administration moves to impose a $103,265 fee on new H-1B worker visas, up from typical fees of roughly $2,000–$5,000.

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@markgurman Quick removal + quick fix = correct process.

Now the interesting question is whether every other app with similar user content gets the exact same treatment? 🤔

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@claudeai Nice one! ☝🏻

Now I can finally teach Claude all my chaotic workflows and see if it survives 😅

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Deploying code and releasing features don’t have to happen at the same time.

Feature flags let you ship safely, test gradually, and turn features on or off—without another deployment.

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A slow dependency shouldn’t keep your users waiting forever.

Timeouts let your system fail fast, recover sooner, and protect valuable resources.

Sometimes the best response is knowing when to stop waiting.

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Not every scaling problem needs a bigger database.

Sometimes, you just need more readers.

Read replicas offload traffic from the primary DB, making read-heavy workloads much easier to handle.

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An API Gateway is more than a front door.

It’s where authentication, routing, rate limiting, and request transformation come together.

One place to simplify what every service shouldn’t have to handle alone.

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Retries are necessary.

Retry storms are not.

Without exponential backoff and jitter, thousands of clients can hammer an already struggling service and turn a hiccup into an outage.

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Strong consistency is comforting.

Scalability usually isn’t.

That’s why many distributed systems embrace eventual consistency.

The trick isn’t avoiding inconsistency.
It’s designing for it.

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@IBM Happy 115th! The original Big Blue 🟦

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One slow service shouldn’t take down everything else.

The Bulkhead pattern isolates resources so failures stay contained.

Because a leak in one compartment shouldn’t sink the whole ship. 🚢

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One service going down shouldn’t bring down your entire app.

Graceful degradation keeps the essentials running, even when dependencies fail.

Users may lose a feature.
They shouldn’t lose the experience.

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Indexes are like superpowers for queries.

But every superpower comes with a price.

Too few indexes and reads suffer.
Too many and writes pay the bill.

Balance is where performance lives. ⚖️

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Users double-click.

Networks retry.

Clients resend requests.

Idempotency keys make sure one action stays one action.

No duplicate charges. No duplicate orders.

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Rate limiting isn’t a feature you appreciate on a normal day.

It’s the feature you’re grateful for when your API suddenly goes viral.

Because a little throttling is better than a complete outage.

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Traditional databases tell you what the current state is.

Event Sourcing tells you how you got there.

Every state change becomes an event, giving you built-in audit trails and the ability to replay history whenever needed.