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Practical notes on website performance, SEO, conversion and building software that lasts.
Designing REST APIs your web and mobile clients will thank you for
Resource naming, pagination, error shapes, versioning and auth — the API design choices that decide whether the front-end team moves fast or fights you.
Database schema design: get it right before you have users
Normalisation, keys, indexes, soft deletes and audit trails — the schema decisions that are cheap now and expensive to change once real data lands.
Shipping faster with CI/CD: a pragmatic pipeline
What belongs in continuous integration, what belongs in deployment, and how a small team gets to safe, boring, multiple-times-a-day releases.
WordPress or a custom build? A decision guide
When WordPress is the right call, when it is not, and how to avoid a slow, plugin-heavy site either way.
Real-time features done right: sockets, queues and backpressure
Live dashboards, chat, notifications and kitchen displays look simple in a demo and get hard under load. Here is what actually keeps them stable.
React Native vs native: choosing your mobile stack
A pragmatic look at when one cross-platform codebase is the right call and when you should reach for native.