Why I Rebuilt My RSS Backend in PocketBase and Go
I spent the first few months of building Stratum using a conventional backend stack. You know the type: a framework with all the bells and whistles, an ORM layer that abstracted away database calls, and a collection of middleware that I barely understood but knew I needed. Everything worked fine until it did not. The RSS fetching logic grew more complex with each new feature, the AI summarization pipeline demanded careful rate limiting, and push notifications needed their own reliability guarantees. My codebase became a tangle of dependencies and configuration files that took longer to maintain than the features themselves. ...