Ilyas Kazi
@ilyaskazi.bsky.social
Principal Architect | Polyglot Engineer
Building scalable apps from Concept to Completion. Strategy, UX, & Code, so you focus on Business. DM for Consults.
Building scalable apps from Concept to Completion. Strategy, UX, & Code, so you focus on Business. DM for Consults.
Introducing the HTML element
developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca...
developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca...
Introducing the <geolocation> HTML element | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Discover the new way to request user location data.
developer.chrome.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Introducing the HTML element
developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca...
developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca...
From student to developer - How open source can launch your career @appwrite.io
appwrite.io/blog/post/fr...
appwrite.io/blog/post/fr...
From student to developer - How open source can launch your career
Discover how contributing to open source projects can transform your journey from student to professional developer.
appwrite.io
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
From student to developer - How open source can launch your career @appwrite.io
appwrite.io/blog/post/fr...
appwrite.io/blog/post/fr...
Reposted by Ilyas Kazi
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, is down for the second time this week. Nearly 80,000 reports have spiked on Down Detector since around 10am ET Friday morning.
X is down for the second time this week | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, is down for the second time this week. Nearly 80,000 reports have spiked on Down Detector since around 10am ET Friday morning.
techcrunch.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, is down for the second time this week. Nearly 80,000 reports have spiked on Down Detector since around 10am ET Friday morning.
Reposted by Ilyas Kazi
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams Engineer Scalable Systems
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams, Engineer Scalable Systems
The architectural principles that turn apps from promising prototypes into growth-ready digital systems.
medium.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams Engineer Scalable Systems
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
January 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Agentic Design Systems in 2026
Design systems combined with AI enable new collaborative workflows where non-technical team members can verbally describe features and see them generated using production-grade components.
bradfrost.com/blog/post/ag...
Design systems combined with AI enable new collaborative workflows where non-technical team members can verbally describe features and see them generated using production-grade components.
bradfrost.com/blog/post/ag...
Agentic Design Systems in 2026
I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion with my pals at Storybook to show off the powerful formula of Design Systems + AI (we've been using the abbreviation "DS+AI" as "AI+DS" is 😬). The ...
bradfrost.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Agentic Design Systems in 2026
Design systems combined with AI enable new collaborative workflows where non-technical team members can verbally describe features and see them generated using production-grade components.
bradfrost.com/blog/post/ag...
Design systems combined with AI enable new collaborative workflows where non-technical team members can verbally describe features and see them generated using production-grade components.
bradfrost.com/blog/post/ag...
Thousands of sensitive secrets published on JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify
securityaffairs.com/185150/secur...
securityaffairs.com/185150/secur...
Thousands of sensitive secrets published on JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify
Users of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify leaked thousands of sensitive secrets, including credentials and private keys, WatchTowr warns.
securityaffairs.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Thousands of sensitive secrets published on JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify
securityaffairs.com/185150/secur...
securityaffairs.com/185150/secur...
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
20,000 issues on GitHub
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12...
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12...
20,000 issues on GitHub
The curl project moved over its source code hosting to GitHub in March 2010, but we kept the main bug tracker running like before - on Sourceforge. It took us a few years, but in 2015 we finally ditch...
daniel.haxx.se
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
20,000 issues on GitHub
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12...
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12...
Does replacing Redis with PostgreSQL makes it Faster?
Let's find out #DEVCommunity dev.to/polliog/i-re...
Let's find out #DEVCommunity dev.to/polliog/i-re...
I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)
I had a typical web app stack: PostgreSQL for persistent data Redis for caching, pub/sub, and...
dev.to
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Does replacing Redis with PostgreSQL makes it Faster?
Let's find out #DEVCommunity dev.to/polliog/i-re...
Let's find out #DEVCommunity dev.to/polliog/i-re...
Reposted by Ilyas Kazi
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
How to diagnose performance bottlenecks before scaling the wrong thing
medium.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
Documents: The architect’s programming language
Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.
stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/d...
Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.
stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/d...
Documents: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow
stackoverflow.blog
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Documents: The architect’s programming language
Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.
stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/d...
Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.
stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/d...
Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust
www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust
But an internal research project is looking at ways to automate the translation of millions of lines of code per month into other languages.
www.infoworld.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust
www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
Optimize for readability first, performance second... because the bottleneck is usually somewhere you didn't expect
January 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Optimize for readability first, performance second... because the bottleneck is usually somewhere you didn't expect
API Learning Roadmap
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
API Learning Roadmap
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
How to diagnose performance bottlenecks before scaling the wrong thing
medium.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Latency vs Throughput: Why Slow Apps Fail for Very Different Reasons
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
When users complain that an application feels slow, the root cause is frequently misunderstood. In practice, performance issues usually fall into one of two categories or sometimes both.
Let's check:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/l...
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams Engineer Scalable Systems
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams, Engineer Scalable Systems
The architectural principles that turn apps from promising prototypes into growth-ready digital systems.
medium.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Beyond Code: How the Best Elite Teams Engineer Scalable Systems
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...
In the early days, scaling feels like adding more code.
Later, you realize - every new feature adds complexity, not capacity.
Let's learn the hardest truth in technology:
medium.com/@ilyaskazi/b...