App & Web Engineering

Mobile-app architecture (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), web-app patterns, MVP scope decisions, performance budgets, and stack selection for new product launches.

App & Web EngineeringJun 3, 20266 min read

Rewrite vs Refactor frontend: a decision framework

Rewrite vs refactor frontend is the single architecture decision teams get wrong most expensively: a full rewrite costs $1.0M–$2.5M over three years for a mid‑market product while an incremental refactor typically costs $200k–$600k. This essay gives a practical decision framework with numeric thresholds and migration patterns you can act on today.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 29, 20266 min read

Progressive hydration: tradeoffs, cost, and when to ship it

Progressive hydration is a precise frontend optimization — it can cut client CPU and time-to-interactive but it also adds complexity that eats roadmap velocity. This piece gives a decision framework that maps measurable traffic patterns to concrete engineering budgets and latency targets before you choose an islands or RSC-first approach.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 24, 20267 min read

MVP web stack: Next.js vs Remix vs SvelteKit

MVP web stack decisions change how fast you learn and how expensive refactors are. MVP web stack choices — Next.js, Remix, or SvelteKit — trade developer velocity, hosting cost, and Core Web Vitals in predictable ways that determine whether you ship revenue in 8 weeks or spend 6 months rebuilding.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 21, 20266 min read

Edge compute architecture: when to run business logic at the edge

Edge compute architecture is the decision most teams confuse with a CDN choice; the real question is whether moving business logic to the edge saves you more latency and ops cost than it adds in complexity and vendor lock-in. This piece gives a decision framework with numbers and trade-offs for CTOs.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 17, 20266 min read

Microfrontend architecture: split the frontend or keep a monolith

Microfrontend architecture is usually proposed as the cure for slow releases — but splitting the frontend often increases operational cost by 20–40% while delivering far less than expected velocity gains. This piece gives a clear threshold: when independent deploys justify the added latency, CI cost, and complexity.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 7, 20268 min read

Cross-platform mobile strategy: React Native vs Flutter vs native

Cross-platform mobile strategy is not a Microsoft-oracle choice between ‘write once’ and ‘rewrite later’ — it’s a product strategy decision that changes your roadmap velocity, 3-year TCO, and hiring profile. Choose the wrong axis and you pay 2x in engineering headcount and 9–18 months of launch delay.

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App & Web EngineeringMay 1, 20267 min read

Next.js server components: when to adopt and when to avoid

Next.js server components change where your React runs — and that shift is a tax on servers, not an instant frontend win. Next.js server components reduce client bundle sizes by 40–80% but increase per-request server CPU and egress; adopt them where client cost is the bottleneck and avoid them when you can’t pay a 2–6× rise in backend cost.

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