MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, architectural deep-dives, and system designs authored by our product engineers and AI research leads.
Designing Notification Systems at Scale: Push, Email, SMS, and In-App
Notification systems are deceptively complex at scale. Learn how to design a unified notification engine that handles push, email, SMS, and in-app notifications with preference management, rate limiting, and retry logic.
WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Long Polling: Real-Time Web Comparison
Real-time features require different transport mechanisms depending on communication pattern, browser support requirements, and scale. Compare WebSockets, SSE, and long polling with concrete Flask examples.
Designing RESTful APIs: Best Practices for Consistency and Usability
A poorly designed API is a liability—developers avoid it, bugs multiply, and breaking changes cause outages. This guide covers REST naming conventions, versioning, error formats, and documentation with OpenAPI.