Posts tagged: python
Scaling to 100+ Concurrency: Mastering API Rate-Limits with Adaptive Flow Control
Scaling parallel worker pools to 100+ concurrent workers can collapse third-party APIs. Here is how we implemented a self-regulating, adaptive flow-control mechanism using exponential backoff and randomized jitter to maximize queue velocity.
REPL vs nREPL — Why Clojure's Live Programming Is a Superpower
Deep technical dive into the REPL and nREPL — how they work at the protocol level, why Clojure's architecture enables live programming, and how every other language ecosystem falls short. With D2 diagrams.
Bypassing the Workday & SuccessFactors ATS Bloat: A Systems Approach to Job Applications
Why manual form-filling is a system error. How I built a local-first application dashboard using Pandoc, Typst, and the Resend API to apply for jobs in under 30 seconds.
From Python to Babashka: Rewriting a Crypto ETL Pipeline in Clojure
A hands-on walkthrough of porting a Python + SQLite crypto price tracker to Babashka (Clojure scripting runtime) — covering the ETL design, the JDBC trap I hit, and why shelling out to sqlite3 turned out to be the cleanest solution.