<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ishanto.com · Writing</title><description>Shanto Islam is a self-taught, passionate full-stack software engineer and developer from Nazipur, Patnitala, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Tech-agnostic problem solver building backend systems, data layers, and AI features that stay dependable after launch.</description><link>https://ishanto.com/</link><item><title>Write code the next engineer can actually change</title><link>https://ishanto.com/post/write-code-that-survives-the-next-engineer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishanto.com/post/write-code-that-survives-the-next-engineer/</guid><description>A full walkthrough of refactoring a real API handler, from separation of concerns and result types to transactions, tests, and the habits that keep code maintainable six months later.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where to draw service boundaries before you need to scale</title><link>https://ishanto.com/post/where-to-draw-service-boundaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishanto.com/post/where-to-draw-service-boundaries/</guid><description>A deep guide to monoliths, microservices, queues, sagas, caching, and multi-tenant isolation, with real patterns from commerce and SaaS products that grew under load.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The slow query I should have caught in staging</title><link>https://ishanto.com/post/the-slow-query-i-should-have-caught-in-staging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishanto.com/post/the-slow-query-i-should-have-caught-in-staging/</guid><description>A full database performance postmortem covering schema design, N+1, EXPLAIN plans, indexes, locks, pagination, connection pools, migrations, and when to denormalize.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What actually happens between git push and a running service</title><link>https://ishanto.com/post/from-git-push-to-running-process/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishanto.com/post/from-git-push-to-running-process/</guid><description>The full path from commit to production, through CI, Docker, Linux processes, memory, networking, reverse proxies, health checks, scaling, observability, and how to debug when deploys lie.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>