Web & Architecture Just Use Postgres: Why One Database Can Do More Than You Think There is a reflex in a lot of engineering teams: a new requirement shows up, and the answer is a new piece of infrastructure. Need search? Add Elasticsearch. Need a queue? Add a message broker. Need a... Web & Architecture Jun 29, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Tech Debt Is a Loan, Not a Sin: How Good Teams Manage It If you feel a quiet guilt every time you open your own codebase, this is for you. Technical debt is not proof that your team is sloppy. It is a loan: you borrowed speed by shipping something less than... Web & Architecture Jun 29, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Local-First Software: Apps That Work Offline and Sync Like Magic You are on a train, finishing a doc, when the signal drops and the spinner of doom appears. You keep typing, then the connection blinks back and a dialog says your last edits could not be saved. Every... Web & Architecture Jun 29, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Build vs Buy: The Decision That Quietly Makes or Breaks Your Product Every product team hits the same fork in the road: do you build the thing yourself, or buy it off the shelf? The build vs buy decision rarely feels urgent in the moment, which is exactly why it quietl... Web & Architecture Jun 29, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Your MVP Doesn't Need Microservices (and Other Startup Myths) Your MVP does not need microservices. It almost certainly does not need Kubernetes, a service mesh, or a sharded NoSQL cluster either. Most engineering advice aimed at early-stage founders is borrowed... Web & Architecture Jun 29, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture WebAssembly in 2026: Near-Native Speed in the Browser and Beyond For most of the web's history, if you wanted heavy computation in the browser you had exactly one language: JavaScript. WebAssembly (often shortened to Wasm ) changed that. It is a portable, sandboxed... Web & Architecture Jun 23, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Passkeys and Passwordless Login: The End of the Password The password has had a fifty year run, and it is finally ending. Passkeys are the modern replacement: a phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication method built on public-key cryptography that let... Web & Architecture Jun 23, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC: How to Choose Your API Style Every new backend eventually hits the same fork in the road: how should clients talk to it? REST, GraphQL, and gRPC are the three serious answers in 2026, and the choice shapes your performance, your ... Web & Architecture Jun 16, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Next.js vs Remix vs Gatsby: Choosing a React Framework in 2026 You have decided to build with React, and now you face the harder question: which meta-framework sits on top of it? In 2026 the realistic shortlist is Next.js, Remix, and Gatsby. This guide compares h... Web & Architecture Jun 16, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture SQL vs NoSQL: PostgreSQL vs MongoDB for Modern Apps Choosing a database is one of the few early decisions that is genuinely hard to reverse later. This guide frames the SQL versus NoSQL split honestly, compares the two clear leaders, PostgreSQL and Mon... Web & Architecture Jun 16, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Monolith vs Microservices vs Serverless: Picking an Architecture Monolith, microservices, or serverless? It is one of the first big decisions a founder or engineering lead makes, and it is the one most often gotten wrong by copying whatever the latest conference ta... Web & Architecture Jun 16, 2026 Our blog
Web & Architecture Supabase vs Firebase: Choosing a Backend for Your App Both Firebase and Supabase hand you the unglamorous parts of an app, namely auth, a database, storage, realtime and serverless functions, so you can ship instead of plumbing infrastructure. They reach... Web & Architecture Jun 16, 2026 Our blog