Tech Couch

A Comfy Corner for Software, Security, Cloud, and AI

Writing a pastebin application in bash

You don't always need a heavy web framework

Load testing websites with siege

Measuring performance of web applications

Understanding SQL transaction isolation levels

A tale of dirty reads, phantoms and performance tradeoffs

Automating API tests in CI/CD pipelines with bruno

Automatically verify endpoints behave as expected

Fundamental software testing strategies

Verifying programs work before users complain

Writing practical bash functions

Understanding bash functions from passing arguments to returning values

Measuring software performance with percentiles

Understanding what insights P99, P95 and P50 percentiles provide

Compiling native applications for alpine containers

Making glibc programs run in musl environments

Running LLMs locally with ollama

Painless AI text models on localhost

Writing user-friendly bash scripts

Meeting user expectations from cleanup to help output