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  <title type="text">Bliztek&apos;s Blog Posts</title>
  <subtitle type="text">Stay ahead in the digital world with our expert insights on web hosting, domain management, web development, social media marketing, and SEO strategies.</subtitle>
  <rights type="text">© 2026 Bliztek, LLC. All rights reserved.</rights>
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  <updated>2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <name>Steven Brown</name>
    <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
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    <title type="text">AWS VPN Options Explained</title>
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    <updated>2025-03-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-03-29T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">Explore AWS VPN solutions including Site-to-Site VPN, Client VPN, and VPN CloudHub. Learn their differences, pros and cons, and when to use each to secure your business network.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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  <entry>
    <title type="text">What Is the Difference Between Front-End and Back-End Development?</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development</id>
    <updated>2024-02-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2024-02-23T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">Breaking down the differences between front-end and back-end development, explaining what each involves, how they work together, and why they&apos;re essential to a successful website.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Dynamic vs. Static Site Strategies</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/dynamic-vs-static-site-strategies" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/dynamic-vs-static-site-strategies</id>
    <updated>2025-03-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-03-22T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">Understand the key differences between dynamic and static website strategies. Learn how each approach affects performance, scalability, and content management — and which is right for your business.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Fast and Slow Pointer Technique: Detecting Cycles and Beyond</title>
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    <updated>2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">A detailed exploration of the fast and slow pointer (tortoise and hare) technique, including its algorithmic foundation, low-level behavior, and performance implications in real systems.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Greedy Algorithms and Priority Queues in JavaScript Systems</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/greedy-algorithms-priority-queues-js" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/greedy-algorithms-priority-queues-js</id>
    <updated>2025-11-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-11-21T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">A systems-focused guide to greedy algorithms, how they relate to heaps and priority queues, and how to apply them effectively in JavaScript.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Heaps for Event-Driven Systems: A Deep Dive</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/heaps-for-event-driven-systems</id>
    <updated>2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">A practical, production-oriented deep dive into heaps, explained through event-driven design: from mental models to a robust TypeScript scheduler, duplicates, cancellation, and performance trade-offs.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">How to Generate an SSL Certificate for Development</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/how-to-generate-an-ssl-certifcate-for-development" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/how-to-generate-an-ssl-certifcate-for-development</id>
    <updated>2024-12-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2024-12-24T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">Learn how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for local development, avoid browser warnings, and test HTTPS with Nginx and Docker Compose.</summary>
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      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Linked Lists in Systems: Structure, Context, and Practical Insight</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/linked-lists-in-systems</id>
    <updated>2025-10-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-10-25T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Software Engineering" />
    <summary type="text">A grounded exploration of how linked lists behave in real systems, where they’re still useful, and what they reveal about memory, performance, and data layout.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">LRU Caches: Constant-Time Eviction for Real Systems</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/lru-caches-constant-time-eviction</id>
    <updated>2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">Build an LRU cache from a HashMap and a doubly-linked list, then do it in 40 lines with JavaScript&apos;s Map. Eviction, TTL, and when LRU is the wrong policy.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Navigating the Legal Requirements for Cookies on Your Website</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/navigating-the-legal-requirements-of-cookies</id>
    <updated>2025-03-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-03-16T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Privacy" />
    <summary type="text">Learn about U.S. and international cookie laws, their impact on businesses, and steps to ensure compliance with regulations like CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, and CTDPA.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Our Open Source RSS Feed Generator</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/our-open-source-rss-feed-generator</id>
    <updated>2024-12-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2024-12-30T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Open Source" />
    <summary type="text">Discover how our open-source Node.js library simplifies RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed generation. A secure, zero-dependency solution for content syndication.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Practical Graph Algorithms for Real-World Services</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/practical-graph-algorithms-real-world-systems" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/practical-graph-algorithms-real-world-systems</id>
    <updated>2025-12-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-12-06T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Software Engineering" />
    <summary type="text">An algorithm-first tour of BFS, topological sort, Dijkstra, and Bellman–Ford using one concrete example. Clear purposes, trade-offs, and TypeScript implementations you can drop into a codebase.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Rate Limiting: Token Buckets and Sliding Windows in Practice</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/rate-limiting-token-buckets-sliding-windows" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/rate-limiting-token-buckets-sliding-windows</id>
    <updated>2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">The four standard rate limiting algorithms, built and tested in TypeScript: fixed windows, sliding window logs, sliding window counters, and token buckets.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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    <title type="text">Stacks: Structure, Behavior, and Practical Insight</title>
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    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/stacks-structure-behavior-practical-insight</id>
    <updated>2025-11-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-11-09T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Software Engineering" />
    <summary type="text">An in-depth exploration of stacks — their structure, language-level nuances, and how they shape memory, execution flow, and algorithmic design.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
    </author>
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    <title type="text">Efficient by Design: The Two-Pointer Pattern and System Performance</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/two-pointer-pattern-system-performance" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/two-pointer-pattern-system-performance</id>
    <updated>2025-10-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-10-11T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Software Engineering" />
    <summary type="text">A systems-level exploration of the two-pointer technique — understanding its algorithmic efficiency, how it interacts with data structures, and why it reduces computational overhead.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
    </author>
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    <title type="text">Understanding HashMaps: Constant-Time Lookups in Practice</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/understanding-hashmaps-constant-time-lookups" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/understanding-hashmaps-constant-time-lookups</id>
    <updated>2025-10-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-10-16T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Software Engineering" />
    <summary type="text">A deep dive into how HashMaps achieve O(1) average lookup time, exploring real-world use cases, system-level trade-offs, and alternatives for different workloads.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
    </author>
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    <title type="text">Integrating Lighthouse CI into GitHub CI/CD Workflow</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/using-lhci-with-nextjs-and-github" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/using-lhci-with-nextjs-and-github</id>
    <updated>2024-12-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2024-12-13T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="DevOps" />
    <summary type="text">Learn how to integrate Lighthouse CI into your GitHub Actions workflow to automate performance, accessibility, and SEO audits.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
    </author>
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  <entry>
    <title type="text">What is Responsive Design?</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/what-is-responsive-design" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/what-is-responsive-design</id>
    <updated>2025-03-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2025-03-01T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Development" />
    <summary type="text">Learn about responsive web design, its key principles, and how it ensures seamless user experiences across all devices.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
    </author>
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  <entry>
    <title type="text">Why Your Website Needs SEO</title>
    <link href="https://bliztek.com/blog/post/why-your-website-needs-seo" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://bliztek.com/blog/post/why-your-website-needs-seo</id>
    <updated>2024-11-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <published>2024-11-30T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <category term="Digital Marketing" />
    <summary type="text">Learn how SEO boosts visibility, builds trust, and drives sustainable growth for your website.</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Steven Brown</name>
      <email>sbrown@bliztek.com</email>
      <uri>https://stevendevelops.com</uri>
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