Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
React Native for Cross-Platform Apps: Lessons from Production
Lessons from production React Native: architecture decisions, native module integration, performance tuning, and deployment.
REST vs GraphQL: How to Choose the Right API Design
REST vs GraphQL for production APIs: caching, N+1 queries, versioning, errors and security, with a decision table and the failure modes each one brings.
How to Build a Design System and Component Library
How to build a design system teams adopt: token tiers, component APIs, packaging for React Server Components, versioning, accessibility and visual tests.
TypeScript Best Practices for Large Codebases
TypeScript practices that hold up at scale: strict tsconfig flags, runtime validation at boundaries, discriminated unions, lint rules and fast type checks.
Monorepo Architecture with Turborepo and pnpm Workspaces
When a monorepo pays off and how to run one: pnpm workspaces, Turborepo caching, affected-only CI, internal packages, Docker builds and boundary rules.
GitHub Actions CI/CD: Building a Secure Production Pipeline
A complete GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline: SHA-pinned actions, OIDC cloud auth, caching, environments, attestations, and the failure modes that bite teams.
Testing Strategy for Modern Web Apps: What to Test Where
A practical testing strategy for web apps: unit, component, integration and Playwright end-to-end tests, what each layer covers, and fixing flaky tests.
How to Build an Offline-First Progressive Web App
Build an offline-first PWA that holds up in production: manifest and install, service worker updates, caching strategies, offline sync, push, iOS limits.
How to Choose a Database: A Workload-Based Selection Guide
How to choose a database by workload: when PostgreSQL is enough, and when to add Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ClickHouse or search. With a decision matrix.
Web Accessibility for Developers: A WCAG 2.2 AA Guide
A developer's guide to WCAG 2.2 AA: semantic HTML, keyboard and focus, ARIA that works, contrast, reflow at 320px, target size and automated tests in CI.
