Atyantik Blog, Page 2
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Ajay Patel
Custom Software Development Cost in 2026: Ranges, Formula, and How to Defend Your Number
Custom software development cost in 2026 runs $15k to $500k+ by complexity. Compute your own defensible number with a transparent formula.
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Tushar Sharma
Postmeta vs custom tables: make the call in time
Decide postmeta vs custom tables on numbers: compute your meta_query break-even, find the collapse knee, and climb a four-rung reversibility ladder.
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Tushar Sharma
Structuring WordPress at Scale with Composer and PSR-4
Structure WordPress at scale with Composer, PSR-4, and npm: the two-graph model, the cross-plugin namespace collision, vendor scoping, and a safe migration.
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Kalpesh Patel
AI Programming Languages: Pick One Per Stack Layer
You don't pick one of the top AI programming languages. You design a four-layer stack where each layer chooses its own, against your real constraints.
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Ishan Chavda
Svelte AI Streaming Interface: State and UX Patterns
Build a Svelte AI streaming interface around one message-lifecycle state machine: optimistic UI, streaming, stop, retry, resume, and accessible states.
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Margi Varmora
MySQL performance bottlenecks: a production triage guide
Diagnose MySQL performance bottlenecks top-down: prove it is the database, rank queries by total time, read EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and fix indexes before my.cnf.
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Ishan Chavda
AI Content Workflow in WordPress, No Plugins Needed
Build an AI content workflow in WordPress with no plugins: a REST route, a WP-Cron worker, custom statuses, and transients that survive timeouts.
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Margi Varmora
Laravel Queues at Scale: Reliable Background Jobs
Laravel queues at scale: size your worker pool with Little's Law, dodge the retry_after footgun that runs jobs twice, and keep delivery reliable.
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Ronak Makwana
What happens when you type a URL and press enter
A millisecond-by-millisecond trace of what happens when you type a URL and press enter: DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP, and the render path, timed and mapped.
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Ajay Patel
Custom software vs off-the-shelf software: US guide
Custom software vs off-the-shelf software: a US decision guide with a live break-even calculator, OpEx vs CapEx, and IRC Section 174 modeling.
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Maulik Macwan
Why is CPU cache faster than RAM? SRAM vs DRAM
Why is CPU cache faster than RAM? The SRAM vs DRAM cell, RAS/CAS/refresh timing, on-die distance, and a benchmark that plots the L1/L2/L3/DRAM knees.
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Ajay Patel
Managing Project Timelines Without Compromising Quality
Manage project timelines without sacrificing quality. Learn realistic planning, task management, and execution discipline for sustainable delivery.
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