4 min read
$9,000/month → $700/month
Moving personalized outreach from precomputation to user demand reduced model calls by 96% and removed an obsolete batch pipeline.
Engineering decisions from production
Case studies on migration strategy, CI, observability, deployment, state machines, and cost-aware product architecture.
5 min read
Rewriting the frontend. 170 locations still using it. Zero downtime.
A live CRA-to-Next.js migration using a V2 shell, iframe bridge, shared authentication, synchronized routing, and staged rollout.
6 min read
12-step form. Conditional validation. Back button has to work.
Modeling a public investor-intake workflow with XState, eleven validation guards, preserved form context, and browser-level tests.
5 min read
No TypeScript. No linter. No Sentry. 170 locations use it daily.
Modernizing an untyped, unmonitored legacy frontend incrementally while keeping the product available to existing users.
4 min read
Your required checks passed. Your tests didn’t run.
How conditionally skipped test jobs can satisfy branch protection, and how always-running gate jobs prevent untested merges.
4 min read
Making a.js:1:4523 useful again
Making production failures actionable with uploaded source maps, a same-origin Sentry tunnel, contextual errors, filtering, and replay.
5 min read
Add this person to Vercel so they can deploy. Or just don’t.
How a historical GitHub Actions workflow handled shared staging and authorized production releases without purchasing a Vercel seat for every engineer.
8 min read
Simplify Your Node.js/Nest.js Deployment: Step-by-Step Guide with Docker and Google Cloud
A corrected guide to multi-stage Node.js and NestJS containers, immutable artifacts, and choosing between Docker Hub and Cloud Build for Cloud Run delivery.
9 min read
Optimizing Backend Systems: How I Employed a CRON Job in a Nest.js Microservice
How a scheduled NestJS microservice consolidated repeated fleet-location requests into a server-side job designed for a much larger client load.