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How to Design API Contracts Between Micro-Frontends and BFFs
Mar 21, 20266 min read
Micro-Frontends
BFF
API Design

How to Design API Contracts Between Micro-Frontends and BFFs

Learn how to design stable API contracts between Micro-Frontends and Backend-for-Frontend layers with versioning, ownership boundaries, error handling, and schema governance.

Next.js BFF Architecture
Mar 21, 20261 min read
Next.js
BFF
Architecture

Next.js BFF Architecture

An architectural deep dive into using Next.js as a Backend-for-Frontend, including route handlers, server components, auth boundaries, caching, and service orchestration.

Next.js Cache Components and PPR in Real Apps
Mar 21, 20266 min read
Next.js
Performance
Caching

Next.js Cache Components and PPR in Real Apps

A practical guide to using Next.js Cache Components and Partial Prerendering in real applications, with tradeoffs, cache strategy, and freshness considerations.

Tutorials & Step-by-Step

Actionable how-to guides for specific implementations.

How to Add Observability to a Node.js App with OpenTelemetry
Mar 21, 20265 min read
Node.js
OpenTelemetry
Observability

How to Add Observability to a Node.js App with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to instrument a Node.js app with OpenTelemetry for traces, metrics, and logs, and build a practical observability setup for production debugging.

How to Build a Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) with Next.js and Node.js
Mar 21, 20266 min read
Next.js
Node.js
BFF

How to Build a Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) with Next.js and Node.js

A practical guide to building a Backend-for-Frontend with Next.js and Node.js for API aggregation, auth handling, caching, and frontend-specific data shaping.

How I Structure CI/CD for Next.js, Docker, and GitHub Actions
Mar 21, 20265 min read
CI/CD
Next.js
Docker

How I Structure CI/CD for Next.js, Docker, and GitHub Actions

A practical CI/CD blueprint for Next.js apps using Docker and GitHub Actions, including testing, image builds, deployment stages, cache strategy, and release safety.

Behind the Code

Post-mortems of real projects shipped and lessons learned.

Optimizing Core Web Vitals for e-Commerce
Mar 01, 202610 min read
SEO
Performance
Next.js

Optimizing Core Web Vitals for e-Commerce

Our journey to scoring 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights for a major Shopify-backed e-commerce platform.

Building an AI-Powered Interview Feedback System
Feb 22, 20269 min read
AI
LLM
Feedback

Building an AI-Powered Interview Feedback System

How we built an AI-powered system that analyzes mock interview recordings and generates structured feedback on communication, technical accuracy, and problem-solving approach using LLMs.

Migrating from Pages to App Router
Feb 15, 20268 min read
Next.js
Migration
Case Study

Migrating from Pages to App Router

A detailed post-mortem on migrating a massive enterprise dashboard from Next.js Pages Router to the App Router.

Quick Tips & Snippets

Bite-sized reads focusing on specific code solutions.

TypeScript Utility Types You Should Know
Feb 10, 20263 min read
TypeScript
Cheatsheet

TypeScript Utility Types You Should Know

Five essential built-in generic utility types in TypeScript that will save you hundreds of lines of code.

Generate Dynamic OG Images in Next.js
Feb 08, 20262 min read
Next.js
OG Images
SEO

Generate Dynamic OG Images in Next.js

Generate dynamic Open Graph images in Next.js using the ImageResponse API with custom fonts, gradients, and data-driven content for social sharing.

GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows: Stop Repeating Yourself
Jan 22, 20263 min read
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
DevOps

GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows: Stop Repeating Yourself

Create reusable GitHub Actions workflows with inputs, secrets, and outputs to eliminate YAML duplication across repositories and teams efficiently.

Tech News & Opinions

Perspectives on new releases and where the industry is heading.

Turbopack Is Replacing Webpack: What You Need to Know
Feb 08, 20267 min read
Turbopack
Webpack
Bundler

Turbopack Is Replacing Webpack: What You Need to Know

Understand why Turbopack is replacing Webpack as the default bundler in Next.js, with benchmarks showing 10x faster builds and what it means for you.

pnpm vs Yarn vs npm: Package Managers in 2026
Jan 22, 20266 min read
pnpm
Yarn
npm

pnpm vs Yarn vs npm: Package Managers in 2026

Compare pnpm, Yarn, and npm in 2026 across speed, disk usage, monorepo support, and security to choose the right package manager for your team.

OpenTelemetry Is Becoming the Observability Standard
Jan 05, 20265 min read
OpenTelemetry
Observability
DevOps

OpenTelemetry Is Becoming the Observability Standard

Learn why OpenTelemetry is becoming the standard for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging, and how to instrument your Node.js and Next.js apps.

System Design

Master system design from fundamentals to advanced distributed architectures, with real-world case studies and interview preparation.

Design an E-Commerce Order Processing System
Jan 10, 202612 min read
System Design
E-Commerce
Saga Pattern

Design an E-Commerce Order Processing System

Design a fault-tolerant e-commerce order system with inventory management, payment processing, saga pattern for transactions, and event-driven order fulfillment.

Monitoring, Observability, and Site Reliability
Dec 10, 20259 min read
System Design
Observability
Monitoring

Monitoring, Observability, and Site Reliability

Build observable systems with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics dashboards. Learn SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.

CAP Theorem and Distributed Consensus
Nov 12, 202510 min read
System Design
CAP Theorem
Distributed Systems

CAP Theorem and Distributed Consensus

Understand the CAP theorem, its practical implications, and distributed consensus algorithms like Raft and Paxos. Learn how real databases handle partition tolerance.

AI Automation

A complete roadmap from AI fundamentals to building production-grade LLM agents, RAG pipelines, and MCP-powered automation systems.

AI Evaluation for Production Workflows
Mar 21, 20266 min read
AI
Evaluation
LLMOps

AI Evaluation for Production Workflows

Learn how to evaluate AI workflows in production using task-based metrics, human review, regression checks, and business-aligned quality thresholds.

How to Build an AI Workflow in a Production SaaS App
Mar 21, 20267 min read
AI
SaaS
Workflows

How to Build an AI Workflow in a Production SaaS App

A practical guide to designing and shipping AI workflows inside a production SaaS app, with orchestration, fallback logic, evaluation, and user trust considerations.

Building AI Features Safely: Guardrails, Fallbacks, and Human Review
Mar 21, 20266 min read
AI
LLM
Guardrails

Building AI Features Safely: Guardrails, Fallbacks, and Human Review

A production guide to shipping AI features safely with guardrails, confidence thresholds, fallback paths, auditability, and human-in-the-loop review.