Engineering notes, written down properly
Long-form technical writing on WordPress and WordPress VIP architecture, Gutenberg and ACF block development, e-commerce engineering, AI and RAG integration, and Core Web Vitals performance - written from production work, not theory.
React & Next.js
Streaming in Next.js: Suspense, Selective Hydration and TTFB
Where Suspense boundaries belong, what streaming does to TTFB and status codes, and the infrastructure that silently turns it off.
11 min read · React & Next.js
Enterprise WordPress
WordPress Multisite Database Sharding: Scaling and Pitfalls
Multisite outgrows one database through table count and shared global tables. Tune first, then shard with an explicit site map and a plan for cross-database queries.
8 min read · Enterprise WordPress
Enterprise WordPress
Contract Testing the WordPress REST API with Pact and PHPUnit
Record what the front end relies on, replay it against WordPress in CI, and check responses against each route's own schema, which WordPress never does for you.
8 min read · Enterprise WordPress
Enterprise WordPress
Gutenberg Block Validation in CI: Catch Invalid Content Early
Run the editor's own parser over fixtures of every markup version a block has ever saved, and missing deprecations fail the pull request instead of surprising editors.
9 min read · Enterprise WordPress
Enterprise WordPress
Redis vs Memcached for WordPress: Choosing an Object Cache
Both make a fine persistent object cache. The differences that matter are operational: eviction, flushing, restarts and how your code uses the cache.
10 min read · Enterprise WordPress
Headless & Composable CMS
Contentstack and Next.js: Building a Composable Front End
Delivery API access, live preview, webhook-driven revalidation and rendering modular blocks as typed React components.
7 min read · Headless & Composable CMS
React & Next.js
Deploying Next.js: Vercel, Self-Hosted and Edge Trade-offs
What ISR, image optimisation and middleware actually require, and what breaks first when you move a Next.js app off Vercel onto your own infrastructure.
7 min read · React & Next.js
Headless & Composable CMS
Wix Velo for Developers: What You Can Build and Where It Stops
Data collections, backend web modules, external API access, and an honest account of where Velo's constraints make a project outgrow the platform.
6 min read · Headless & Composable CMS
Enterprise WordPress
Engineering for WPVIP (WordPress VIP): High-Concurrency Standards & VIP Go Compliance
An interactive technical guide detailing high-concurrency request routing, WPVIP code review compliance, Memcached patterns, and VIP Go readiness checklists.
7 min read · Enterprise WordPress
Enterprise WordPress
WP-CLI at Scale: Automation, Audits and Safe Migrations
Batching, memory ceilings, custom commands, dry runs and resumable migrations - how WP-CLI behaves once the database is too big to hold in memory.
7 min read · Enterprise WordPress