Background Jobs in NestJS With BullMQ: A Practical Setup
Queues, retries with backoff, and idempotent processors for BullMQ in NestJS, so a slow job never blocks an HTTP response again.
By Toshstack Admin — Aug 20, 2026
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Optimizing React Rendering Performance Without Guessing
How to use the React DevTools Profiler to find real re-render problems, and when memoization actually helps versus adds overhead.
By Toshstack Admin — Aug 07, 2026
The OWASP Top 10, Translated Into Actual Backend Code
What broken access control, injection, and the rest of the OWASP Top 10 look like in a real NestJS + TypeORM codebase.
By Toshstack Admin — Jul 26, 2026
Rate Limiting and Throttling a NestJS API With Redis
Per-route limits, Redis-backed storage for multi-instance deployments, and the difference between throttling and abuse blocking.
By Toshstack Admin — Jul 14, 2026
TypeScript Generics for APIs That Stay Type-Safe End to End
Generic repositories, DTOs, and response wrappers that let TypeScript catch a mismatched field before it reaches production.
By Toshstack Admin — Jul 01, 2026
PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies Beyond the Default B-Tree
When a plain B-tree index is not enough: partial, composite, and trigram indexes, and how to read EXPLAIN ANALYZE to prove it.
By Toshstack Admin — Jun 19, 2026
Designing Idempotent Payment Webhooks That Never Double-Charge
Signature verification, idempotency keys, and safe retries for payment gateway webhooks in a NestJS checkout flow.
By Toshstack Admin — Jun 06, 2026
CI/CD for a pnpm Monorepo with GitHub Actions
Caching, affected-package builds, and matrix jobs so CI stays fast as a NestJS + Next.js monorepo grows past a handful of apps.
By Toshstack Admin — May 25, 2026
A Production Dockerfile for NestJS and PostgreSQL
Multi-stage builds, non-root users, and healthchecks for a NestJS + Postgres stack that runs the same locally and in production.
By Toshstack Admin — May 12, 2026
Integration Testing a NestJS API with Jest and Supertest
Why integration tests catch what unit tests miss in a NestJS API, and how to structure them with a real test database.
By Toshstack Admin — Apr 30, 2026
Redis Caching Strategies That Actually Reduce Database Load
Cache-aside, write-through, and invalidation tags for Redis in a NestJS API — with the failure modes each one trades for speed.
By Toshstack Admin — Apr 18, 2026
Server Components vs Client Components: Where to Draw the Line
A decision framework for choosing server or client components in Next.js, and how the boundary between them actually behaves.
By Toshstack Admin — Apr 05, 2026
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