Latest articles
Hiring playbooks, engineering deep-dives, and studio insights — filtered by category.
Articles
Showing 13–24 of 110
Case Studies
Database Sharding: When We Finally Pulled the Trigger
Shard keys, cross-shard queries, and operational overhead after years on one Postgres.
Case Studies
CDN Migration to Cloudflare: Lessons Learned
Cache rules, purge strategy, and origin shielding during provider switch.
Case Studies
Transactional Outbox in Production
How outbox polling fixed dual-write bugs between Postgres and RabbitMQ.
Case Studies
Headless CMS Refactor for Portfolio Sites
Separating content from presentation to ship faster across brands.
FeaturedCase Studies
Reliable Notification Workers at Scale
Queue backpressure, template versioning, and provider failover for email and push.
Case Studies
Zero-Downtime Auth Service Migration
Session compatibility, token rotation, and dual-write strategies during cutover.
Case Studies
Blog Platform Read Replica Scaling
Moving list and analytics queries off the primary without stale content surprises.
Case Studies
Media Pipeline on Backblaze B2: A Production Case
Presigned uploads, virus scanning, thumbnails, and CDN delivery at scale.
Case Studies
Extracting a Payments Service Safely
PCI boundaries, idempotent webhooks, and reconciliation jobs during monolith decomposition.
Case Studies
E-Commerce API Gateway Refactor Case Study
Consolidating auth, rate limits, and routing while domain services stayed independent.
Case Studies
Scaling a White-Label SaaS for 30+ Brands
Deploy frequency, blast-radius isolation, and infra cost trade-offs from a multi-tenant refactor.
Case Studies
Strangler Fig Pattern in Real Migrations
How teams peel domains from monoliths with routing facades and shared-schema phases.