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Oct 08, 2025

dbt at Scale: Lessons From a 5,000-Model Project

A dbt codebase eventually becomes a software project. The patterns that work at 5,000 models — and the ones that fall apart.

Oct 02, 2025

SwiftUI Has Grown Up: When to Drop UIKit

After five years of rough edges, SwiftUI is finally production-ready for most apps. The remaining cases that still need UIKit, and how to mix them.

Sep 22, 2025

Kubernetes at Five: When You Should and Shouldn't Use It

Kubernetes is no longer the default. The honest assessment of when it is the right tool — and when a simpler runtime is better.

Sep 15, 2025

A Brief History of Game Engines: From idTech to Unreal 5

Three decades of game engine evolution, from John Carmack's idTech to Unreal 5 with Nanite and Lumen.

Sep 09, 2025

Embedded Systems: A Brief History From 8051 to Cortex-M

Forty years of embedded systems, condensed. Why ARM Cortex-M won, where 8051 still ships, and what each generation taught the field.

Sep 04, 2025

Why Server-Side Rendering Came Back: A Performance Story

For a decade SPAs ruled the web. Then Core Web Vitals got teeth and the industry pivoted back to server rendering. Here is the engineering story behind the shift.

Aug 26, 2025

Native vs Cross-Platform: A 2026 Decision Framework

Flutter and React Native have closed most of the gap. Here is the framework we use to decide native vs cross-platform on every new mobile project.

Aug 18, 2025

The Modern Data Stack: A Five-Year Retrospective

The "modern data stack" promise five years ago was a clean toolkit for analytics. The reality in 2026 is messier and more interesting.

Aug 12, 2025

The Evolution of the Web: From CGI to Edge Rendering

A 30-year tour of how the web went from CGI scripts and static HTML to edge-rendered apps — and what each shift taught us about scaling user experience.

Jul 29, 2025

The History of the Cloud: From AWS to Multi-Cloud

Twenty years of cloud computing condensed into one timeline. From S3 to multi-cloud, what each era taught us about building reliable systems.