Software Architecture
The Price of Abstraction: Re-evaluating the 'Clean Code' Myths of 2018
In 2018, we over-engineered for 'future flexibility' that never arrived. Today, we prioritize code locality and the 'Grokability' factor. Explore why we moved from deep inheritance and HOCs to flat, predictable composition.
Local-First Architecture: CRDTs and the End of Spinning Spinners (2025)
We're tired of cloud-only apps that break on a subway ride. In 2025, local-first architecture is the new gold standard for high-performance software.
Partytown: Offloading Third-Party Scripts to Web Workers (2021)
Third-party scripts are killing your Lighthouse score. In 2021, Partytown offers a radical solution: move them all to a Web Worker and proxy the DOM.
GraphQL and the N+1 Problem: Solving it with DataLoader (2018)
GraphQL is taking over API design in 2018. But without careful implementation, your resolvers will crush your database with N+1 queries. Facebook's DataLoader is the solution.
The Elm Architecture: TEA in Production (2015)
Tired of runtime exceptions and 'undefined is not a function'? It's 2015, and Elm is showing us a better way to build frontend apps.
GraphQL Schema Design: Thinking in Graphs, Not Endpoints (2015)
Facebook just open-sourced GraphQL. It's time to stop thinking in REST resources and start thinking in edges and nodes. Let's design a Relay-compatible schema.
Backbone.Events: Decoupling Your Spaghetti Code with Pub/Sub (2012)
Large-scale JavaScript applications in 2012 are a mess of jQuery callbacks. Backbone.js offers a way out through its powerful Events module. Let's build a decoupled architecture.
The Web as a Data Source: Automating HTTP with C++ and libcurl (2002)
Manually checking your web app's responses in Netscape or IE is for amateurs. In 2002, we use libcurl to build automated testing suites and data scrapers that treat the internet like an API.
The Digital Nervous System: Scaling with DCOM and C++ (1999)
Windows NT 4.0 is the bedrock of the modern enterprise. We move beyond VBScript spaghetti to architect robust, distributed systems using ATL and DCOM for our middle-tier business logic.
The Java Virtual Machine: A Deep Dive into Bytecode
Java is taking the world by storm, but the real magic isn't the syntax-it's the stack-based architecture of the JVM and the bytecode that enables 'Write Once, Run Anywhere'.