Architecture
The real cost of microservices: what nobody tells you before you commit
Distributed systems complexity, debugging hell, and when a monolith is genuinely the better choice.
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Why we stopped using ORM queries for aggregations (and what we do instead)
After hitting serious performance walls on a client's analytics dashboard, we made a controversial call: write raw SQL for all aggregation queries. Here's what we learned six months later.
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AI Integration
Building production RAG systems: the parts the tutorials skip
Chunking strategies, retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, and why evals matter more than the model you pick.
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Mobile
React Native in 2026: should you still use it or switch to Flutter?
A comparison based on real projects we've shipped in both — performance, developer experience, and long-term maintainability.
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Security
Security review checklist: what we run before every production deployment
The practical checklist we've refined over 150+ deployments — from secret scanning to dependency audits to header hardening.
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DevOps
Cutting AWS bills by 40%: a practical guide for growing startups
Right-sizing, reserved instances, S3 lifecycle policies, and the five changes that made the biggest difference on client accounts.
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Design
Design systems at scale: how we maintain consistency across 5 product teams
Shared tokens, component versioning, and the governance model that lets teams move fast without diverging.