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Alex Aslam

Seasoned Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in software development involving the project management, Team lead, Feature development and happy to collaborate.

Joined on Dec 23, 2024 alexaslam02@gmail.com https://www.github.com/alexaslamgm

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python, ruby, javascript, FastApi, React, React Native, ruby on rails, angular, AWS

I’m actively seeking opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and connect. Whether you’re hiring, brainstorming a project, or just want to swap ideas over coffee, I’m all in.

121 posts published

27 comments written

17 tags followed

Alex Aslam

Jun 24

Rails with ROM.rb: Life After ActiveRecord

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

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Alex Aslam

Jun 23

Rails Without ActiveRecord: When to Go Full CQRS

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 23

Event Sourcing vs. Blockchain: Where Immutability Matters

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 23

Optimizing Async Operations: When Promise.all Destroys Your Performance (And When to Use Loops Instead)

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 22

From Legacy to Event-Sourced: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 21

Post-Split Trauma: How to Debug Distributed Systems

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 21

The Hidden Cost of console.log() in Production: How We Lost 40% Performance

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 20

How Discord Uses Event Sourcing for Message History

#webdev #programming #beginners #architecture

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 20

CRUD Lies: Hidden Pitfalls of Simple Updates

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 20

Snapshot Strategies: Optimizing Event Replays

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 19

When to Switch from CRUD to Events: The Tipping Point

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 19

Why `JSON.parse()` and `JSON.stringify()` Can Crash Your Node.js App

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 18

Event Sourcing for GDPR: How to Forget Data Without Breaking History

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 18

Memory Leaks in Node.js: How We Hunted Down and Fixed a 2GB Leak in Production

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 17

Event Sourcing vs. CRUD: When 1000 Database Writes Don’t Matter

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 17

CQRS in Rails: Scaling Reads and Writes Independently

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 16

From Events to APIs: Building a REST Layer on Event Sourcing

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 15

Testing Event-Sourced Systems: No More Fixtures, Just Replays

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 15

Beyond Express: Fastify vs. Hono – Which Wins for High-Throughput APIs?

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 14

When Event Sourcing Fails: War Stories from Production

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 14

How We Slashed AWS Lambda Cold Starts by 90% with Node.js

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 13

Event Sourcing + Hexagonal Rails: A Survival Guide

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 13

Node.js Clustering vs. Worker Threads: When to Fork and When to Thread

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 13

Event Sourcing in Rails: Rebuilding Reality From a Stream of Truth

#webdev #programming #beginners #rails

3 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 12

Mastering the Node.js Event Loop: How We Scaled to Higher RPS

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 12

When to Split a Monolith: The Art of Surgical Extraction

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

3 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 12

Hexagonal Rails: Escape the Framework Trap

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 11

The Node.js Performance Trap: How To Fixed The API from Crashing Under Load

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 11

Event-Driven Architecture with Rails: Breaking Free from the Request-Response Trap

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

3 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 11

The Phantom Deadlock: When Rails, Sidekiq, and PostgreSQL Collide

#webdev #programming #beginners #rails

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 10

Modular Monoliths in Rails: Taming Complexity Without Microservices Madness

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 10

Scaling RAG Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Data)

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 9

Taming the Chaos: How Output Parsers Save Your LLM From Formatting Disaster

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 9

Debug Heroku Deployment Errors: Slay Asset Compilation & Env Vars Dragons 🐉

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 9

JavaScript Setup: Import Maps vs. esbuild/Shakapacker – Cut the Build Tool Chaos

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 8

Convention Over Configuration: How Rails’ "Magic" Saves You From Boilerplate Hell

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 8

MVC in 10 Minutes: How Models, Views & Controllers Actually Work (With Visual Diagrams)

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 8

Taming the Noise: How to Fix Garbage-in/Garbage-out AI Retrieval

#webdev #programming #ai #machinelearning

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 7

"I Don’t Know" is a Superpower: How Smart Prompt Engineering Fixes Missing Content in AI

#webdev #programming #promptengineering #ai

1 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 6

Heroku: The Laziest Way to Deploy Apps (Git + Add-Ons = Magic) ✨

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 6

Building Your First RAG Pipeline: A Step-by-Step Guide for Developers

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 6

Vercel + Next.js: Deploy at Warp Speed with Edge Functions 🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 5

Blazing-Fast Static Sites on AWS: S3 + CloudFront in 5 Minutes 🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 5

RAG: Why Your LLM Needs a Reality Check (and How to Fix It)

#webdev #programming #rag #ai

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Why Engineers Are Replacing Raw LLMs (and You Should Too)

#webdev #programming #javascript #ai

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 4

AWS Deployment Showdown: EC2 vs. Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js Apps 🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #devops

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 3

Monitoring for Mortals: New Relic, Datadog & Grafana—Without Losing Your Mind 📊👨💻

#webdev #programming #javascript #monitoring

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 3

Stop API Abuse Dead in Its Tracks: Rate Limiting with `express-rate-limit` 🚦🔒

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 2

Caching Secrets: Turbocharge Your App with Redis & CDNs (Without the Headaches) ⚡🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 2

SSL/TLS Certificates for Devs: Get HTTPS for Free in 5 Minutes with Let’s Encrypt 🔒🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

2 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 1

Monoliths vs. Microservices: The Brutally Honest Guide to Splitting Your App (Without Regrets) ⚖️💥

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 31

Firebase Functions: Real-Time Apps That Scale Like Magic (Without the Server Headaches) ✨🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 31

Serverless REST APIs: Code Like a Rebel, Deploy Like a Boss with AWS Lambda + API Gateway 🚀🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 30

Escape the Container Chaos: Deploy Dockerize Apps to ECS, Cloud Run & Swarm Without Losing Your Mind 🐳🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 30

Dockerize Node.js + React in 5 Minutes: End "Works on My Machine" Forever 🐳🚀

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 29

Dockerized Databases on Your Terms: Self-Host PostgreSQL/MySQL Like a Pro (Without the 3 AM Panic) 🐳💡

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 29

Managed DB Smackdown: MongoDB Atlas vs. AWS RDS vs. PlanetScale (No More 3 AM Alerts!) 🥊🚨

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 29

Mastering Reverse Proxies: Supercharge Your Node.js App with Nginx or Apache

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 28

Taming the Server Beast: AWS EC2 vs. DigitalOcean vs. Linode for Node.js (No Ops Nightmares) 🐉⚡

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

Alex Aslam

May 28

Deploy Node.js Apps Like a Boss: Railway vs. Render vs. Heroku (Zero-Server Stress) 🚀🤖

#webdev #programming #javascript #automation

3 min read

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