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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
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
A detailed post-mortem on migrating a massive enterprise dashboard from Next.js Pages Router to the App Router.
Performance Optimization for an Image-Heavy Rental Platform
How we optimized Core Web Vitals for an image-heavy rental platform, reducing LCP from 4.2s to 1.8s through responsive images, lazy loading, blur placeholders, and CDN-based image transformation.
Building an AI-Powered SaaS: Lessons Learned
Integrating Large Language Models into a production application comes with unique challenges. Learn about prompt engineering, cost management, and streaming UIs.
Building a Role-Based Multi-Portal Platform
How we architected a multi-portal platform with role-based access for admins, vendors, and customers, sharing a single Next.js codebase with dynamic layouts and permission-driven UI rendering.
Offline Sync and Conflict Resolution in React Native
Deep dive into implementing offline sync and conflict resolution for a React Native field app, covering sync queues, merge strategies, vector clocks, and handling intermittent connectivity.
Stripe Payment Flows in Production: Lessons from Three Projects
Production lessons from implementing Stripe payments across three projects, covering checkout flows, subscription billing, webhook reliability, refund handling, and PCI compliance strategies.
Integrating Real-Time Aviation APIs in a Mission-Critical Platform
How we integrated multiple real-time aviation APIs for flight tracking, weather data, and NOTAMs into a mission-critical platform with circuit breakers, caching, and graceful degradation.
Scaling a Fintech Dashboard to 10k Active Users
How we leveraged Redis, WebSockets, and heavily memoized React components to deliver real-time financial data.
Building a Configurable Form Engine with Conditional Logic
How we built a JSON-driven form engine for a mobile audit app with 200+ field types, conditional show/hide logic, nested repeaters, offline validation, and dynamic calculations.
Polyglot Database Architecture for E-Commerce at Scale
How we designed a polyglot database architecture using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch for an e-commerce platform, with data flow patterns and consistency strategies.
Building a Realtime Collaboration Tool
The technical deep-dive into creating a Notion-like multi-player editor using Yjs and React.
Implementing Feature Flags for Progressive Rollout
How we implemented a feature flag system for progressive rollout across web and mobile, with percentage-based targeting, A/B testing integration, and instant kill switches for production incidents.
Building an Enterprise Design System with 50+ Components
How we built and scaled an enterprise design system with 50+ React components, covering token architecture, Storybook documentation, versioning strategy, and cross-team adoption patterns.
Migrating from Express.js to NestJS: Lessons Learned
Lessons learned from migrating a production Express.js API to NestJS, covering incremental migration strategy, module decomposition, dependency injection adoption, and zero-downtime cutover.
Full-Stack Architecture for a Classroom Management System
Architectural decisions behind a full-stack classroom management system built with Next.js and NestJS, covering multi-role access, real-time updates, assignment workflows, and grade tracking.
Building Map-Based Property Discovery with Google Maps
Case study on building an interactive map-based property discovery platform using Google Maps API, marker clustering, geospatial queries, and performant rendering for thousands of listings.
Monorepo with Shared Schemas: Mobile + Backend in Turborepo
How we structured a Turborepo monorepo with React Native mobile and NestJS backend sharing Zod schemas, TypeScript types, and validation logic to eliminate API contract drift.
Building a WebRTC Video Interview Platform
Case study on building a WebRTC-based video interview platform with recording, real-time transcription, AI feedback, and adaptive bitrate for varying network conditions.
Implementing RTL and Bilingual Support for UAE E-Commerce
How we implemented full RTL layout support and Arabic-English bilingual functionality for a UAE e-commerce platform, covering CSS logical properties, font loading, and content management.
Scaling a Multi-Vendor E-Commerce Platform with Next.js
Case study on scaling a multi-vendor e-commerce platform to handle 50+ vendors and 10K+ products using Next.js ISR, edge caching, and a microservices backend with NestJS.
Building an LLM Orchestration Layer for Interview Prep
How we built an LLM orchestration layer that chains multiple AI models for interview preparation, with prompt management, response streaming, cost optimization, and fallback strategies.
Designing an Offline-First Mobile Audit Platform
Case study on building an offline-first audit platform in React Native with local-first data storage, background sync, conflict resolution, and reliable media uploads from remote sites.
Building a Micro-Frontend Architecture for Enterprise Aviation
How we designed and implemented a micro-frontend architecture for an enterprise aviation platform, enabling independent team deployments and reducing release cycles from weeks to hours.