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Webdev
Every long-form engineering note on Webdev. 12 essays on production systems, architecture and shipping.
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By Amit Chakraborty — Senior Software Engineer, Kolkata, India · Remote worldwide
12 on Webdev
- I Built My Portfolio With Lovable — And It Made Me Rethink What Web Development Costs — lovable.dev I’m a software...
- From 2-Day Releases to 4-Hour Releases: The Hierarchy of Engineering Velocity — In the early stages of building a complex system, a 48-hour release cycle feels like a safety net....
- Next.js Streaming and the Latency Gap: Placing Suspense Where the Data Fails — In building high-stakes software, the most dangerous architectural decision is treating all data as...
- PostGIS for People Who Thought They Needed a Search Cluster — The instinct to reach for a dedicated search cluster like Elasticsearch or Algolia when a product...
- Deterministic Fallbacks for Every AI Path — In the pursuit of building high-stakes AI systems, the most dangerous architectural decision is to...
- Why Retrieval Quality Beats Model Choice — When I architected the 0 to 1 stack at Synapsis Medical Technologies, the pressure to chase the...
- Engineering RAG Pipelines That Survive a HIPAA Compliance Audit — When building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for clinical environments, the technical...
- Reanimated Worklets: The Rule That Keeps Gestures Smooth — In my eight years of professional software engineering, I have seen a recurring failure mode in React...
- Achieving 60fps on Budget Android Hardware: Offloading Image Decode and ML Preprocessing — In my eight years of professional software engineering, I have found that the true test of an...
- Hermes Bytecode and the Cold-Start Budget: Engineering Time-to-Interactive as a Product Requirement — In the lifecycle of a mobile application, the most expensive milliseconds are the ones that occur...
- Scaling React Native Performance: When to Move Logic to C++ via JSI — In the lifecycle of a React Native application, you eventually hit a wall that no amount of...
- What Bridgeless Mode Actually Changed in React Native — For nearly a decade, the architecture of React Native was defined by a single, asynchronous...