Writing Migrations You Can Roll Back
A migration without a tested down path is a one-way door. We treat reversibility as a requirement, not a nicety.
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Our Journey to Zero-Downtime Deploys
Rolling deploys, health checks that actually check health, and the database migration rule that saved us.
Type-Safe Feature Flags with TypeScript
Stringly-typed flags are a footgun. A tiny bit of TypeScript turns typos into compile errors.
The Case for Boring Technology
Every new technology spends innovation tokens. We spend ours deliberately, and keep the rest of the stack delightfully boring.
Debugging a Memory Leak in Production Node.js
RSS climbed 40MB an hour until the pod OOM'd. A heap snapshot and one closure later, we found it.
How We Reduced Our Bundle Size by 60%
Three changes — a moment.js eviction, route-level code splitting, and tree-shaking a barrel file — cut 60% off our JS.