Razvan Zanc

Building and running software

Articles

Backend engineering, practical decisions, and the tradeoffs behind reliable systems.

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Security · Cloud

Keeping up with CVEs in production

Smaller images, faster fixes

Start with hardened images and scan them before deployment and while they run in production. Test patches in CI so you can ship fixes quickly.

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Software Engineering · Performance · AI

High-performance backends in the age of AI

10 principles that still matter

When requests start piling up, I look at where they spend their time and how much work the service takes on at once. The same checks apply when AI wrote the code.

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