Engineering Nuggets

Short, high-signal insights on backend and AI engineering. One core idea, code snippet, and takeaway.

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Oct 25, 2025 3 min

Why SET NX PX is your friend when building distributed task queues. A simple pattern that prevents race conditions and duplicate processing.

Oct 22, 2025 4 min

How to handle large document sets when your LLM has a 4K token limit. Practical chunking strategies and retrieval optimization.

Oct 18, 2025 3 min

Never charge a customer twice. How to implement idempotency tokens in your payment processing pipeline.