by mguay | Apr 13, 2026 | DevOps, NestJS, Post
We recently enabled gzip compression in front of one of our NestJS services using Istio, and the improvement was immediate. The biggest win was on larger JSON responses. Our API was returning payloads that were fairly repetitive and very compressible, so once gzip was...
by mguay | Dec 27, 2025 | NestJS, Post, TanStack
Introduction In modern full-stack development, maintaining type safety across frontend and backend can be challenging. Different teams might duplicate type definitions, leading to inconsistencies and runtime errors. In this guide, we’ll explore how to create a...
by mguay | Oct 29, 2025 | NestJS, Post
Writing Clean, Decoupled Code with the Strategy Pattern One of the biggest signs of a mature backend developer is understanding how to decouple high-level business logic from low-level implementation details. That’s exactly what the Dependency Inversion Principle...
by mguay | Sep 3, 2025 | NestJS, Post
When building APIs, especially for payments or operations that modify state, you want to avoid executing the same request multiple times if the client retries. Stripe popularized the concept of idempotency keys: clients attach a unique key to a request, and the server...
by mguay | Aug 25, 2025 | NestJS, Next.js, Post
When you’re building a modern API with NestJS and tRPC, authentication is usually one of the first hurdles. Instead of rolling your own, you can use Better Auth, a lightweight authentication service that integrates seamlessly with NestJS. In this post, I’ll show you...
by mguay | Aug 9, 2025 | NestJS, Node.js, Post
Encrypting database traffic isn’t optional—especially if you’re handling user data or building anything that might one day need audits or certifications. Fortunately, enabling SSL/TLS for Postgres on AWS RDS with Drizzle ORM (node-postgres) in a NestJS app is...
