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Writing on data systems, software engineering, and building for the web.
A step-by-step walkthrough of installing Payload, defining your content, rendering it, and deploying - based on setting it up on a real production Next.js site.If you have a Next.js app and you’re tir...
Read moreOur app lets warehouse managers download barcode label PDFs, one label per box, up to 1,000 boxes in a single shipment. Small shipments were fine. Big ones crashed the server, timed out, or slowed eve...
Read moreA few weeks ago, a user told me “the bot logged the wrong calories,” and I had absolutely nothing to debug it with except one console.log line that only fires when the chatbot completely gives up:cons...
Read moreWhen I first started with Next.js, these four acronyms were everywhere and nowhere explained simply. Every article assumed I already knew what “hydration” meant, or they buried the one useful sentence...
Read moreHere’s a mistake I almost made: I was building the onboarding flow for my app NutriCal, and right before returning a success response to the user, I was about to write one line - await sendWelcomeEmai...
Read moreA practical guide to giving your LLM a working memory — using tools you probably already haveThere’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from building an AI chatbot and realizing it’s completely...
Read moreHow code-splitting turned my 664 KB monster bundle into something I’m not embarrassed bySo last night I was wrapping up a build of my calorie-tracking PWA, it has an AI chat feature, a Razorpay subscr...
Read moreSo You Want to Turn Your Web App Into a PWA?A while back, I went down the PWA rabbit hole for a side project, a little calorie tracker I’d built with React and Vite. I kept seeing the term “PWA” throw...
Read moreHow I Deploy My Next.js App on AWS Amplify (Simple Guide + One Bug I Hit)A beginner-friendly walkthrough: why I picked Amplify, how I deploy, what it costs, and a sneaky bug I ran into.When my Next.js...
Read moreRunning an Express app locally is simple node index.js, done. Deploying it to AWS Lambda is a different story - not because it's hard, but because Lambda works nothing like a traditional server.Th...
Read morePayments look simple from the outside. Show a button, collect money, unlock the feature.I wired up Razorpay into a subscription-based React + Node.js app recently and spent more time than I’d like to ...
Read moreLLM GeneratedWe generate barcode PDFs using Puppeteer. One day, a client reported that barcodes aren’t scanning properly after printing. We checked the PDF - looked fine. Opened it on screen - sharp a...
Read moreBefore New Relic, debugging a slow API in production meant one thing, staring at console.log output and guessing.Someone reports “the order page is slow.” You have no idea if it’s a slow query, a slow...
Read moreDebezium was going down 3–4 times a month. Its only job in our system was publishing events to Kafka — order created, PO created, that kind of thing. Every time it went down, events were lost.So I rep...
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