Bolt.SH
An OpenStack-powered IaaS data center I designed and built, with VM orchestration, virtual networking, and load balancing that let teams self-serve infra.
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Faiz Ahmed Farooqui
I design and scale cloud-native, multi-tenant systems across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS: secure payments, real-time platforms, and backend architecture on AWS and OpenStack. I write about the engineering behind it.
Featured work
GeekyAnts/express-typescript Production-ready Express + TypeScript boilerplate. My most widely adopted open-source project, used across 20+ production apps. ★ 1,261 ⑂ 325 GitHub → faizahmedfarooqui/nodejs A low-level Node.js web, API, and CLI app built entirely on Node's core APIs, with zero npm packages. ★ 21 ⑂ 1 GitHub → Project · GeekyAnts
Latest articles
scaling-javascript-nodejs
The HTTP QUERY Method: GET With a Body, in Node.js and NestJS
If you have ever built a search or filter endpoint, you have made this uncomfortable choice. Use GET, and your complex filter object has to be crammed into the URL. Use POST, and you are using a method that means "create or change something…
ai-engineering
Using AI Without Leaking Your Secrets: A Threat Model for AI-Assisted Development
Someone hits an error, copies the whole stack trace into a chat window, and asks the model to "just figure this out fast." Buried…
The Build Log: Rebuilding My Blog on Astro, Cloudflare Pages & Umami
I already wrote about why I left Hashnode. This is the other half: how the replacement actually works. Every meaningful decision,…
Moving Off Hashnode: Self-Hosting Everything on Astro + Cloudflare
I moved this blog off Hashnode. It now lives in a Git repo as a pile of Markdown files, builds with Astro, and ships from Cloudfla…