Software Engineering Blog, page 10
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Jaykrishna Vijayan
Choosing testing tools for your project, one layer of the test pyramid at a time
Choosing testing tools for your project, layer by layer: the one criterion that decides each layer, checked in the official docs, then a first test to run.
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Maulik Macwan
JavaScript one-liners that stay readable and correct, shown beside the input that breaks each one
JavaScript one-liners for flatten, swap, Set dedupe, string to number and reverse, each beside the input that breaks it, with measured speed.
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Sachin Sanchania
Laravel performance optimization: find what is slow, fix the cause, know the cost
Laravel performance optimization that starts by measuring: Pulse, Telescope and EXPLAIN first, then each fix with what it costs and how it backfires.
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Tirth Bodawala
Rancher on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: a Helm install with Traefik, cert-manager and TLS
Install Rancher on DigitalOcean Kubernetes with Helm: pick a DOKS version, add Traefik and cert-manager, get a Let's Encrypt certificate, fix the 3 breaks.
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Ishan Chavda
HTML5 tags for frontend developers: the tags list and what each one tells a screen reader
HTML5 tags for frontend developers, listed with what each tag means in the WHATWG standard and the role it exposes to screen readers under HTML-AAM.
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Kalpesh Patel
Tailwind vs Bootstrap in 2026: Tailwind CSS v4 and Bootstrap 5.3 built on the same page
Tailwind vs Bootstrap at current versions: one page built in Tailwind CSS v4 and Bootstrap 5.3, bytes measured, and which one fits your team.
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Tirth Bodawala
Ecofyre low-carbon design theme for Figma: what each design choice costs in bytes, grams and access
The Ecofyre low-carbon design theme, measured choice by choice: image and font bytes, grams of CO2e per view, dark surfaces and the WCAG 2.2 floors.
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Ajay Patel
WCAG UI UX design: the share of WCAG 2.2 a designer settles before code
WCAG UI UX design, split at the handoff: the WCAG 2.2 numbers a design file can check, what it must annotate, and what only code and testing can prove.
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Ishan Chavda
API types and architectures: what REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, webhooks and event streams cost to run and to change
API types and architectures compared by cost: measured bytes, caching, versioning and team skills for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, webhooks and Kafka.
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Vishal Prajapati
Accessible single-page applications: what each router does on a route change, and how to fix the gap
Accessible single-page applications move focus and announce the new page on every route change. See what six routers do by default and how to patch them.
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Vishal Prajapati
ARIA live regions: how to make screen readers announce dynamic content
How ARIA live regions work: pick role status, alert or log, predict aria-live and aria-atomic, fix a silent region and size a screen reader test plan.
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Janki Gandhi
Keyboard navigation focus management under WCAG 2.2: six stops, a test and a native fix for each
Keyboard navigation focus management under WCAG 2.2: tab order, visible and unobscured focus, widgets, modal dialogs and route changes, each with a test.
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