Yash Singhal 🔥

Eng @ IFAI🚀 | Ex- InteligenAI, CrossTower👨‍💻 | Sharing backend, design & dev experiments ⚗️ | Hackathons 🏆 | 22 | ⚡ Helping devs grow

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1:03 AM.

PM texts: “Quick change-can we just add dark mode before release?”

I turned off notifications.

Because my soul already is in dark mode.

The feature is complete.

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@kirat_tw @jarredsumner Jarred speedran ‘build startup → get acquired’ faster than Bun installs dependencies

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@kirat_tw Reading it on Twitter hits different than experiencing it at 3AM in production. 😭🔥

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@mehulmpt Bro didn’t just warn us, he basically posted the spoiler alert for the whole outage arc. 😂

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@arpit_bhayani Wild ! how an amoeba explains range partitioning better than half the system design textbooks 😄

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@archiexzzz Absolutely. JSON is a token tax - every { , : " } is money

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@LowLevelTweets Relax 😆 that’s just bots knocking on every door on the internet hoping someone left .env outside. Ours is locked.

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The takeaway:

For global businesses, depending on a robust CDN isn't optional—it's survival. 🥷

A single point of failure at this scale creates a cascading crisis for whole ecosystem. 🌋

Are we too centralized? What's solution?
#Tech #Cloudflare #CDN #Cybersecurity #DevOps

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2/
The 3 Critical Functions, CDN provides:

🚀 Speed: Caching + instant TLS = ⚡global delivery.
🛡️ Security: Uses Anycast to diffuse massive DDoS attacks across its entire network capacity.
🟢 Resilience: High fault tolerance. Origin servers struggle-> CDN serves cached copy.

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/1
𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦 is world’s largest 𝐂𝐃𝐍 .

What it does:
- 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭: Uses global PoPs & edge servers to cut latency.
- Faster connections: Terminates TLS handshakes instantly at edge.
- 𝐂𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: Protecting your origin server from massive load.

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When 𝐗, 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈, 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲, & 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚 all vanish at once, it's not a simple server crash—it's an INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURE. 🚨

The recent 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞 outage was a $100𝘔 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 of how 1 company powers internet.

Why?
A deep dive into the tech 👇

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6.
That’s the first half of the story.
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 → 𝘔𝘝𝘊 → 𝘚𝘗𝘈 → 𝘉𝘍𝘍

Next up in 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟐:
How 𝐒𝐒𝐑, 𝐒𝐒𝐆 & 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 changed everything ⚡️

#frontend #webdev #nextjs #react #softwarearchitecture

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭-𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 (𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝟏)🚀

wanna sound 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 in your next 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 ...
Let's go...👇🧵

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5.
SPAs solved interactivity but not complexity.
So next: the 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 (𝐁𝐅𝐅) pattern.

Each frontend (web, mobile) gets its own API.
✅ 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢
✅ 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
❌ 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦

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Big news 🇮🇳 - OpenAI is giving 1-year free access to ChatGPT Go starting Nov 4!

More power → GPT-5, uploads, memory, faster protos.
Big W for devs 🚀

#AI #DevTools #ChatGPT

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@pbteja1998 @SiteGPT Haha the SiteGPT chat flow