Caching strategies and the invalidation problem
Caching is the cheapest performance improvement available and the easiest way to serve wrong data. Invalidation is the whole difficulty.
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Web Development
What actually makes a business landing page convert
Most landing page advice is cosmetic. The changes that move conversion are about clarity, friction and matching the promise that brought the visitor.
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Drupal
Building an accessible Drupal site to WCAG 2.2 AA
Drupal core has good accessibility foundations. Most failures on Drupal sites are introduced by the theme, the content or a contributed module.
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Cloud
Serverless architecture: the trade-offs nobody mentions in the demo
Serverless removes operational work and introduces different constraints. Knowing them in advance is the difference between a good fit and a rewrite.
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Design
The design system audit worth running before you build one
Design systems are abandoned for organisational reasons more often than design ones. A short assessment up front predicts which ones will survive.
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DevOps
Incident response and blameless post-mortems that change something
Most post-mortem processes produce documents nobody reads. A few practices make them produce actual change.
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Design
Design handoff that does not lose intent
Handoff fails when it is a moment rather than a collaboration. The fix is mostly about when engineers are involved.
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QA & Testing
Application security testing aligned to OWASP
Most exploited vulnerabilities fall into a small number of well-understood categories. Testing for those systematically catches most of the risk.
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Delivery
What technical due diligence actually examines
Investors and acquirers ask us to assess technology quickly. The findings that change valuations are rarely the ones founders expect.
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Drupal
Drupal Commerce, WooCommerce or Shopify: choosing an e-commerce platform
The right e-commerce platform depends on how unusual your catalogue and checkout rules are, and how much of the operation is bespoke.
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Mobile
Mobile accessibility: building apps that work with assistive technology
Both platforms provide strong accessibility APIs. Most failures come from custom controls and missing labels rather than from platform limitations.
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AI & Data
Choosing AI use cases worth building
Most failed AI projects were poor candidates before any code was written. A short triage saves considerable money.
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Architecture
Managing technical debt as a business decision
Technical debt is a trade-off, not a moral failing. Making it visible and costed turns it into a decision rather than an argument.
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Drupal
Designing a Drupal editorial experience people will actually use
A content management system is a product used daily by a small group of people. Their experience is usually designed last, if at all.
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Cloud
Cloud security posture: the controls that prevent the common incidents
Most cloud incidents are not sophisticated. They involve exposed storage, over-permissive roles and credentials that should not exist.
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DevOps
GitOps: making the repository the source of truth for deployment
GitOps gives auditable, reversible deployments by declaring desired state in version control and letting an agent reconcile it.
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