Engineering insights, tool updates, and developer ecosystem news.
An unpopular opinion from a team that tried microservices, felt the pain firsthand, and went back to a monolith on purpose, not out of laziness.
We moved AIDToolStack from a single Next.js app to a Turborepo monorepo. Here is everything that went right, wrong, and sideways.
How we built a cohesive design system for AIDToolStack with Tailwind CSS, Radix primitives, and a theming engine that supports 4 themes.
SQLite powers more production applications than you think. Here is an honest look at where it excels, where it breaks, and how to decide.
A practical comparison of the three main API versioning strategies, based on actually shipping and later regretting one of them.
A perfect Lighthouse score means nothing if your users are frustrated. Here is how to measure and optimize what actually matters.
A case for terminal-first development with Neovim, tmux, and Claude Code, built by someone who spent a decade in full graphical IDEs first.
GitFlow was designed for packaged software releases. Modern web teams need something simpler. Here are the workflows that actually work for continuous deployment.
A practical comparison of Model Context Protocol servers and REST APIs, covering architecture, use cases, performance, and when each approach is the right choice.
Caching is the most impactful performance optimization and the most common source of bugs. Here is how to cache correctly at every layer of your stack.
Rate limiting seems simple until you need to handle distributed systems, tiered plans, and burst allowances. Here is a comprehensive guide to doing it right.
Unit tests catch maybe half of what actually breaks production. Contract tests, snapshot tests, and visual regression tests catch the other half nobody warned you about.
