🚀 The Pagination Pitfall: A React + Spring Boot Cautionary Tale The Setup: “It’ll Be Fine…” A few years ago, I was working on a dashboard application with a React frontend and a Spring Boot backend. The task seemed simple: display a list of users with pagination. One of the newer devs suggested: “Let’s just fetch everything once and paginate on the client side — it’ll be faster for the user.” ...
For years, I’ve been using Jekyll to power my blog at ozkanpakdil.github.io. It has served me well in production, but setting it up on Windows for local testing has always been a bit of a headache. Even with WSL, the process is sluggish, making experimentation and quick iterations more cumbersome than I’d like. Recently, I started thinking about creating a PostgreSQL benchmark center website, and given my past challenges with Jekyll, I decided to explore other options. That’s when I discovered Hugo, a static site generator built with Go. I went ahead and created the site under GitHub Pages at pgbench.github.io, and the difference in speed was immediately noticeable. ...