Joseph Ali - Today I learned / Noteshttps://josephali.dev/tils2026-08-23T00:00:00ZJoseph Alihttps://josephali.devUnderstanding AWS SQS Visibility Timeouthttps://josephali.dev/tils/aws/understanding-aws-sqs-visibility-timeout2026-08-23T00:00:00Z2026-08-23T00:00:00ZUnderstanding AWS SQS Visibility Timeout SQS is a useful building block for distributed systems because it decouples producers from consumers. Let's take a simple example of one producer sending a message to the queue and one consumer consuming the message. The message stays i...Joseph Alihttps://josephali.devTrigger a GitHub Pages Rebuild from Another Repositoryhttps://josephali.dev/tils/github-actions/trigger-github-pages-rebuild2026-07-26T00:00:00Z2026-07-26T00:00:00ZTrigger a GitHub Pages Rebuild from Another Repository My personal website, josephali.dev, is hosted on Github pages, with it's source code stored in the dig/josephali.dev repository. Whenever I push a change to the main branch, a Github actions workflow builds the Next.js app...Joseph Alihttps://josephali.devHow Rueidis Optimizes Lua Script Evaluations in Gohttps://josephali.dev/tils/go/how-rueidis-optimizes-lua-scripts-evaluations-in-go2026-07-15T00:00:00Z2026-07-15T00:00:00ZHow Rueidis Optimizes Lua Script Evaluations in Go I recently needed to perform multiple Redis operations atomically for a hot endpoint. This endpoint receives thousands of requests concurrently all trying to achieve the same thing: decrement one value, increment another and e...Joseph Alihttps://josephali.dev