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Infrastructure
Web application architecture, cloud, and the modern engineering stack.
How modern teams ship reliable software at speed: edge compute, type-safe full-stack patterns, observability, and the database decisions you don't get to redo.
Modern Web Application Architecture in 2026
The default stack has shifted. Edge, streaming, server components, and typed RPC are now mainstream.
Edge Compute vs Region Compute: A Practical Decision Framework
When the edge actually wins, and when it just adds latency to your database round trip.
Postgres at Scale: The 2026 Playbook
Read replicas, connection pooling, partitioning, and the moment you actually need to shard.
Monorepo vs Polyrepo: The Honest Tradeoffs
A pragmatic framework for choosing, with the operational costs nobody talks about.
Kubernetes: When Not To
K8s solves real problems. Most early-stage teams do not have those problems.
End-to-End Type Safety: Worth It or Cargo Cult?
tRPC, GraphQL codegen, server functions — the patterns and where they pay off.
Observability for Small Teams Without an SRE
The minimum viable observability stack — logs, metrics, traces — for product teams without dedicated platform engineers.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Pool, Silo, or Hybrid
The three canonical models, what they cost to operate, and the one decision you have to make early.
Modern Background Jobs: Beyond cron and Redis Queues
Durable execution, workflow engines, and what changed when 'idempotent' became table stakes.
Feature Flag Discipline for Fast-Moving Teams
How the highest-velocity teams treat feature flags as a release primitive, not a hack.
Authentication in 2026: Passkeys, Magic Links, OAuth
The pragmatic choice for new applications, and the migration path off legacy passwords.
Serverless vs Containers: The 2026 Calculus
Cold-start improvements and pricing changes have reshuffled the deck since 2022.
The CDN Is Now an Application Runtime
What changes when your edge platform can execute code, mutate responses, and hold state.