· Architecture
API Evolution - gRPC, GraphQL, and the Role of REST
The API design conversation has stopped being “REST vs. GraphQL” as if you have to pick one for your whole system, and that’s a genuine improvement…
Writing
Insights
219 articles on how we build things and why. Architecture decisions, what went wrong, and the reasoning behind the choices we make on client projects.
Articles
· Engineering Practice
Remote Engineering - Cultivating a High-Performance Culture
“Remote engineering culture” often means, in practice, the same processes a co-located team used, run over video calls, with everyone quietly frustrated that meetings take longer…
· Artificial Intelligence
E-commerce AI - Real-time Price and UX Optimization
Dynamic pricing gets a bad reputation from its worst implementations - airlines and ride-hailing apps raising prices the moment demand spikes, in a way that reads…
· Cloud and DevOps
Cloud-Native Fintech - Mastering PCI-DSS Compliance
We’ve written elsewhere about how tokenization and hosted payment fields let most fintech applications avoid touching raw card data entirely, which handles the biggest share of…
· Engineering Practice
Figma to Code - Streamlining the Design Pipeline
The gap between a finished Figma design and working code is where a lot of design-engineering friction actually lives - not in disagreement about what should…
· Data and Databases
Modern SQL - Why Relational is Still King
“Relational databases don’t scale” has been repeated so often it’s outlived the era when it was mostly true. Modern Postgres and MySQL, properly designed and indexed,…
· Architecture
Serverless State Management - Complex Workflows
Serverless functions were originally sold as ideal for simple, stateless operations - a request comes in, does one thing, returns a response, forgets everything. Real business…
· Engineering Practice
Digital Accessibility - Building for the Next Billion
The “next billion internet users” framing gets used a lot in India-focused product conversations, and accessibility rarely comes up in the same breath - which is…
· Performance
Rust in Web Development - The Performance Frontier
Rust in the browser (via WebAssembly) and Rust on the server both get pitched with the same “faster than JavaScript” framing, and it obscures two genuinely…
· Performance
Bun vs. Node.js - Benchmarking the New Runtime
Bun’s benchmark numbers are genuinely impressive, and every time a new one circulates, we get a client asking whether they should migrate off Node. The honest…
· Engineering Practice
Internal Tooling Velocity with Low-Code Platforms
Every engineering leader has felt the same tension: the business needs a dozen small internal tools - an approval workflow, a data entry form, a simple…
· Architecture
Enterprise Blockchain - Practical Logistics Solutions
Blockchain in enterprise logistics has a credibility problem, mostly earned - a lot of “blockchain for supply chain” pilots from a few years ago were solutions…
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