Prisma

Database

Using @db.Timestamptz() in Prisma Schema for Chat Applications

Using @db.Timestamptz() fields in prisma is critical for reporting and chronological ordering, the benefits of using @db.Timestamptz() outweigh the minor performance considerations for most applications.

Read
Database

The Limitations of Amazon CloudFront Origin Groups for Modern API Failover Strategies

Discover how Amazon CloudFront’s origin groups can boost your API’s uptime by automatically rerouting traffic to backup servers when failures strike—but also learn about a critical limitation: this failover only works for GET, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, leaving POST and other write operations exposed to outages. If you’re building resilient, high-availability APIs, this article reveals both the power and the pitfalls of CloudFront’s failover feature, and why it may not be the complete solution for dynamic, write-heavy applications.

Read
Web Development

Building APIs quickly

In this post, I have outlined when to use low code platforms to build APIs. Additionally I have compared some popular frameworks like express, nestJS, springboot, hasura and prisma which could be used to build APIs. Finally, I have presented the reasons why I like using Prisma and Hasura in tandem to build APIs

Read