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Parsa Aftabi

@parsaaftabiJoined October 2026

Backend & Full-Stack Engineer — building high-performance systems and clean APIs. Go · TypeScript · React · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker

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The http.Server Setup I Use in Every Go Project — Now Open Source

Every Go API I ship starts life with the same block of code. Not the handlers, not the routing. The server setup. Timeouts, signal handling, the shutdown dance. I'd copy it from the last project, chan

Oct 20 · 4 min readparsaaftabi.hashnode.dev

PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE: What I Actually Look At in Query Plans

PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE: What I Actually Look At in Query Plans Every slow query I have ever chased started the same way: someone guessing. "Probably needs an index." "The join is too big." "Postgr

2Oct 17 · 8 min readparsaaftabi.hashnode.dev

Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure

Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure Redis is the piece of infrastructure everyone under-configures. Out of the box it's a cache with no memory limit, an eviction policy that fails writes in

Oct 12 · 5 min readparsaaftabi.hashnode.dev

Docker Images I'd Actually Ship: A Production Checklist

Most Dockerfiles I've seen in the wild are development artifacts wearing a production costume. Someone took the image they debugged with, slapped a CMD on it, and called it a deploy. It works — right

Oct 12 · 6 min readparsaaftabi.hashnode.dev

Laravel Octane in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You

Laravel Octane promises something that sounds too good: your Laravel app, running at speeds that make PHP-FPM look like it's wading through mud. Thousands of requests per second. Response times in sin

Oct 11 · 6 min readparsaaftabi.hashnode.dev

Parsa Aftabi

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Parsa Aftabi's blogs

The http.Server Setup I Use in Every Go Project — Now Open Source

PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE: What I Actually Look At in Query Plans

Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure

Docker Images I'd Actually Ship: A Production Checklist

Laravel Octane in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You

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Parsa Aftabi's blogs

The http.Server Setup I Use in Every Go Project — Now Open Source

PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE: What I Actually Look At in Query Plans

Redis in Production: What I Actually Configure

Docker Images I'd Actually Ship: A Production Checklist

Laravel Octane in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You