The Quill Component Gallery
Every safe component the Quill blog theme exposes to MDX, rendered in one place — callouts, figures, tables, code, and more.
Northwind Engineering
How we build, scale, and operate Northwind — notes from the engineering team.
Embedding Media: Video, Maps, and Tweets
Quill's media embeds are safe by construction — sandboxed iframes and id-validated helpers, no third-party scripts.
Sanitizer Probe (should render safely)
A deliberately hostile post body used to confirm the render-time sanitizer holds.
Cutting Our P99 Latency in Half with Connection Pooling
We were opening a fresh Postgres connection per request. Here is how a pooler took our P99 from 340ms to 160ms.
Why We Migrated from REST to gRPC (and What Broke)
Service-to-service JSON over HTTP was costing us in latency and schema drift. gRPC fixed two problems and created one.
Postmortem: The Day Our Cache Stampeded
A popular key expired at peak traffic and 4,000 requests hit the database at once. Here is the timeline and the fix.
Building a Multi-Tenant Database Schema That Scales
Shared tables, schema-per-tenant, or database-per-tenant? We picked one on purpose. Here is the reasoning.