Software Engineering Blog, page 5
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Ajay Patel
Custom software types and examples: four public systems, their records, and the route each one teaches
Custom software types and examples from the public record: IRS Direct File, GOV.UK Notify, Power Apps and GAO's legacy systems, and how to pick a route.
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Ajay Patel
Software development RFP template, with a completed example and a vendor scorecard
A software development RFP template filled in for one project, with a vendor scorecard on published weights and the price weight that flips the winner.
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Ajay Patel
The custom enterprise software development process: six steps, six decisions, and when to build
The custom enterprise software development process in six steps: what a CTO decides at each one, the advantages, and a build vs buy check to run first.
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Tirth Bodawala
React rendering on Cloudflare Workers: SSR, SSG or client-only, decided route by route
React rendering on Cloudflare, decided per route: measured render CPU against the Workers limits, live TTFB, and a working SSR and SSG split.
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Ajay Patel
How much does custom software development cost, and what will you really spend?
Custom software development cost from survey and wage data: where projects land, what hours cost, how often budgets slip, and five years of upkeep.
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Tushar Sharma
WordPress postmeta vs custom tables: making the call before it's too late
Postmeta vs custom tables in WordPress: count the joins a meta_query writes, read its EXPLAIN plan, and decide when a post type needs its own table.
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Tushar Sharma
WordPress Composer PSR-4 npm: how to structure a large plugin estate, and what the autoloader really buys
A WordPress Composer PSR-4 npm setup for large sites: map namespaces to folders, prefix bundled libraries, build assets, and time each autoload mode.
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Kalpesh Patel
The top AI programming languages, chosen for each layer of an AI stack
The top AI programming languages by layer: Python to train, C++ and CUDA for kernels, Rust for runtimes, TypeScript or Go to serve, with usage data.
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Ishan Chavda
Svelte AI streaming UX patterns: build a chat UI where every reply is a small state machine
Svelte AI streaming UX patterns for a chat UI: one $state class per reply, a SvelteKit stream route, AbortController stop, retry and a polite status line.
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Margi Varmora
How to fix MySQL performance bottlenecks and slow MySQL queries in production
Fix MySQL performance bottlenecks and slow MySQL queries in triage order: the slow query log, total time, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, an index, then memory.
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Ishan Chavda
The AI content workflow WordPress can run without plugins: a REST route, WP-Cron and a person who publishes
Build an AI content workflow WordPress runs with no plugins: a REST route, a WP-Cron worker, pending drafts and only a person with publish_posts to publish.
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Margi Varmora
Laravel queues at scale: the timer order and worker sum that stop double runs
Laravel queues at scale: keep every timeout under retry_after, size workers from job time, run Horizon on Redis, and make each job safe to run twice.
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