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Cutting Costs and Boosting Speed for Yaldi Emotes with Cloudflare R2 vs AWS S3
Building Yaldi.chat: Why Cloudflare R2 + CDN Beat S3 + CloudFront
Images are deceptively expensive. They’re easy to underestimate because each one is small, static, and simple. But at sca…
Choosing the Right Database for Yaldi.chat: PostgreSQL, RDS, or Supabase
Building Yaldi.chat: Why PostgreSQL on Neon Beat Supabase and Traditional RDS
Databases tend to lock in architectural decisions longer than almost anything else. Migrating a database—especiall…
Yaldi’s Backend: Heavy on AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Building Yaldi: Why AWS Lambda + API Gateway Was the Right Call
The easy part of building Yaldi was storing metadata. The hard part is everything around it: authentication, abuse resistance, perform…
Building Yaldi.chat Emote Service
In this first part of my series on building Yaldi.chat, I dive into the architectural decisions and constraints that shaped our Twitch emote platform. If you're grappling with building scalable, main…
Building an Automated Coinbase Crytpo Trading Bot
My Problem
While there's a slew of automated trading solutions for both stocks and crypto, I wanted to try building my own as a learning exercise and to give myself more control. A few of the soluti…