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Cloud

Building a Real-Time Notification System for 2 Million Users

Architecture walkthrough of a pub/sub notification pipeline handling 50,000 events per second โ€” from Redis Streams to WebSocket fanout to…

February 17, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Cloud

Building a Real-Time Notification System for 2 Million Users

Architecture walkthrough of a pub/sub notification pipeline handling 50,000 events per second โ€” from Redis Streams to WebSocket fanout to…

February 17, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Startup

Why We Stopped Using Microservices for New Projects Under $5M ARR

After 18 months helping a client untangle premature microservices, here is what we learned about when distribution is a liability,…

February 11, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Startup

Why We Stopped Using Microservices for New Projects Under $5M ARR

After 18 months helping a client untangle premature microservices, here is what we learned about when distribution is a liability,…

February 11, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Performance

From 8 Seconds to 800ms: The Complete Next.js Performance Optimisation Playbook

Every technique we used to take a Lighthouse score 34 ecommerce site to 94 โ€” ranked by impact with concrete…

February 5, 2026 ยท 2 min read
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Performance

From 8 Seconds to 800ms: The Complete Next.js Performance Optimisation Playbook

Every technique we used to take a Lighthouse score 34 ecommerce site to 94 โ€” ranked by impact with concrete…

February 5, 2026 ยท 2 min read
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Design

Design Systems at Scale: One Base System for 12 Client Products

Two years ago we maintained 12 separate design systems. Today one token-driven base system serves all clients through a lightweight…

January 30, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Design

Design Systems at Scale: One Base System for 12 Client Products

Two years ago we maintained 12 separate design systems. Today one token-driven base system serves all clients through a lightweight…

January 30, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Security

5 Smart Contract Vulnerabilities We Caught Before Mainnet

Real findings from our internal security reviews โ€” reentrancy, oracle manipulation, access control failures, integer overflow, and MEV frontrunning. With…

January 24, 2026 ยท 2 min read
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Security

5 Smart Contract Vulnerabilities We Caught Before Mainnet

Real findings from our internal security reviews โ€” reentrancy, oracle manipulation, access control failures, integer overflow, and MEV frontrunning. With…

January 24, 2026 ยท 2 min read
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Mobile

React Native New Architecture: 18 Months of Production Results

We have shipped 8 apps on React Native's New Architecture since it stabilised in 0.74. Honest assessment of what improved,…

January 18, 2026 ยท 1 min read
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Mobile

React Native New Architecture: 18 Months of Production Results

We have shipped 8 apps on React Native's New Architecture since it stabilised in 0.74. Honest assessment of what improved,…

January 18, 2026 ยท 1 min read