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Baikal Server is a living tech blog for backend engineers, platform teams, DevOps specialists, and founders who care about the systems underneath the product.
Featured Articles
Long-form engineering notes with practical detail and clean editorial pacing.
LinkedIn for IT Engineers: Build a Technical Brand Without Looking Fake
How engineers can use LinkedIn well: show real systems work, share lessons, and attract relevant conversations without becoming a generic creator.
Kubernetes Production Readiness Checklist
A practical production checklist for Kubernetes covering cluster hardening, observability, backup policy, and reliability review.
Latest Articles
Recent writing across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud and performance.
Database Connection Pooling: Beyond the Basics
How to size, monitor, and tune connection pools for high-throughput services without exhausting the database.
Implementing Zero-Downtime Deployments
Deployment patterns that let teams ship faster without waking users or on-call engineers.
Building a Modern Observability Stack
A grounded walkthrough for building a useful observability stack with logs, metrics, traces, and sane dashboards.
Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
Ways to cut waste in cloud environments while keeping performance and resilience where they need to be.
API Rate Limiting Algorithms Explained
Token bucket, leaky bucket, and sliding window explained with practical trade-offs for production APIs.
Essential HTTP Security Headers in 2026
The headers teams still miss in production and how to roll them out safely without breaking the app.
Load Balancing Strategies for Distributed Systems
A practical comparison of balancing strategies for services that need predictable performance under load.
Microservices Communication Patterns
How to choose the right communication pattern between services without overcomplicating the platform.
Redis Caching Patterns for High-Performance Applications
Production-friendly Redis patterns for reducing load, avoiding stampedes, and keeping cache invalidation under control.
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