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Long form pieces on shipping production systems, scaling SaaS, hiring engineers, AI integration, and the engineering decisions behind Yashveer Labs.
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- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Game Day: How to Run a Failure Simulation
How to run a structured failure simulation that reveals the gaps in your incident response before a real incident exposes them to customers.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Error Budget: SRE for Small Teams
Error budgets are not just for Google. A small team with one or two services can adopt the core SRE idea in a week and spend the rest of the year making better reliability trade offs.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The On Call Rotation That Engineers Can Actually Sustain
Most on call rotations are designed by people who are not on call. Here is the structure that keeps engineers alert, keeps the team healthy, and actually reduces incidents over time.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Disaster Recovery Plan That Fits on One Page
A disaster recovery plan that is actually used in a crisis needs to be short, specific, and executable by anyone on the team under pressure.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
Trunk Based Development for Small Teams
Long-lived branches accumulate merge debt. Trunk-based development removes the debt by keeping everyone on one branch. Here is how small teams adopt it without chaos.
11 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Monorepo vs Polyrepo Debate Settled for Startups
For startups with 1-10 engineers, the monorepo wins: shared types, one CI pipeline, and no cross-repo dependency headaches.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
Why Vercel Cannot Be Your Entire Backend
Vercel is excellent at what it is built for. It is not built to be the only home for a serious SaaS backend, and the projects I have rescued because someone tried prove the point. Here is where the boundary is.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Twelve Factor App in 2026: Still Relevant, Slightly Updated
The twelve factor methodology is fifteen years old. Most of it holds. A few factors need a modern reread. Here is which ones still matter, which ones need updating, and the two that the original list missed.
12 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
The Deployment Pipeline That Survives Real World Pressure
What a production-grade CI/CD pipeline needs to do reliably when the team is shipping fast and the stakes are real.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Three Hour Performance Audit Every Team Should Run Quarterly
A quarterly performance audit does not require a dedicated week or a specialist. Three hours, the right sequence of checks, and a shared document is enough to catch most regressions before they reach customers.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Performance Regression That Hides in CI
CI catches broken tests, not slower tests. The performance regression that ships quietly is the one your pipeline has no budget check for. Here is the discipline that catches it before production.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
Why Memoization Is a Trap When Misused
Memoization looks like free performance. It is not. It moves cost around, hides bugs, and produces a class of regression that nobody catches in review. Here is when to reach for it and when it makes everything worse.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Hot Path: Finding and Optimizing It
How to identify the code that runs on every request and the specific optimizations that reduce its cost -- profiling, measurement, and the highest-return changes.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Slow Query Log: A Discipline Every SaaS Team Should Practice
Most SaaS teams discover slow queries when a customer complains. The slow query log is the discipline that finds them first. Here is how to enable it, read it, and act on what it tells you.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Garbage Collection Tax: A Backend Story
How garbage collection pressure creates latency spikes in Node.js and JVM services -- and the profiling and architectural changes that reduce the tax.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The HTTP Caching Strategy That Most Teams Get Wrong
The specific HTTP caching headers that control browser and CDN caching -- why most teams misconfigure them and the performance and correctness implications.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
The Edge Rendering Bet: When It Pays Off
When edge rendering improves real user performance and when it adds complexity without meaningful benefit for your specific workload.
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- Performance Optimization
The Real Numbers Behind a Fast Web App in 2026
Fast is not a feeling. It is a set of specific numbers that your app either hits or does not. Here are the targets that matter in 2026, where most apps fall short, and what it actually takes to close the gap.
12 min read
- Performance Optimization
Why Your App Got Slower After You Added Users
The app was fast at a hundred users and slow at ten thousand. The code did not change. The data did. This is the technical story of where the time actually goes, and how to find it before your customers do.
12 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
The Data Processing Agreement: A Founder's Practical Read
What a DPA actually requires, why enterprise buyers demand it before signing, and how to get one done without a full legal team.
12 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
The Post Mortem Culture That Improves Security
A post mortem is only useful if the team reads the findings and changes something. Most teams file the document and repeat the incident. Here is the pattern that actually moves the security needle.
12 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
The Customer Security Questionnaire: A Strategic Asset
Why the security questionnaire is not a compliance checkbox but a sales asset, and how to build answers that close enterprise deals faster.
12 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
Vendor Security Assessments: How to Pass Them Quickly
Most vendor security assessments ask the same questions in slightly different forms. A startup that prepares once can answer the next dozen in a day each. The slow path is treating each one as a surprise.
11 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
The Privacy Policy That a Lawyer Actually Approved
Most startup privacy policies are either copied from a competitor or generated by a free tool and never reviewed by counsel. Both approaches create real liability. Here is what it actually takes to have a policy that holds up.
11 min read
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