The Faction Group LLC

Your database might not be overloaded.

Your connections might be.

Check the foundation first.

-MM

You added Redis and your app got faster.

Now you have two sources of truth.

-MM

The first time I ever ran OWASP ZAP on one of my own apps.

Eleven vulnerabilities. 11.

In an app I thought was ready to ship.

Scan yourself before someone else does.

-MM

Images do not belong in database columns.

Object storage exists for a reason.

-MM

Three hundred dependencies in your App.

You wrote zero of them.

Own what runs in your app.

-MM

Clerk or Auth0.

They solve completely different problems.

Match the auth to the customer.

-MM

If your frontend hides the button but your API still accepts the request, you have a suggestion, not access control.

-MM

Application-level filtering is a prayer.

Row Level Security is a policy.

-MM

Serverless Postgres or serverless MySQL.

Neon or PlanetScale?

Choose the engine you know.

-MM