The notes I would have wanted at fifteen.
Long form pieces on shipping production systems, scaling SaaS, hiring engineers, AI integration, and the engineering decisions behind Yashveer Labs.
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- Tech Debt and Refactoring
Snapshots, Property Tests, and the Modern Test Toolbox
Unit tests and integration tests are not the whole story. Here is what else belongs in a serious test suite.
7 min read
- DevOps, Deployment, Infrastructure
SLOs and SLIs for Founders: A Plain Language Guide
SLOs and SLIs turn reliability into a measurable commitment. Here is what they mean and why they matter.
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- Business Automation and Ops
Slack Bots That Earn Their Keep
Most Slack bots get built, used for a week, and forgotten. Here is what makes the ones that stick work.
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- Security, Auth, and Compliance
Single Sign On for Enterprise SaaS: SAML and OIDC Compared
SSO is a procurement requirement for enterprise deals. Here is what SAML and OIDC each mean for your engineering roadmap.
8 min read
- MVP Development and Startup Builds
Should Your MVP Be a Mobile App or a Web App First?
Web apps ship faster, iterate faster, and validate faster. Here is when mobile-first is worth the tradeoff.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
Should You Open Source Your Product? A Strategic Read
Open sourcing your product changes your distribution, your competition, and your monetization permanently.
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- Software Costs and Budgeting
Should You Buy a No Code Solution or Hire a Developer? Cost Tradeoffs
No code starts cheaper and hits a ceiling faster. Custom development costs more and scales further. Here is the math.
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- MVP Development and Startup Builds
Should You Build Your MVP in Public?
Building in public generates audience and accountability. It also generates opinions from people who are not your customers.
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- Cross Platform and Mobile Development
Should You Build for iOS or Android First as a Startup?
The platform you build first will shape your early users, revenue, and product feedback. Choose deliberately.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
Should You Build a Mobile App at All?
A mobile app adds cost, complexity, and app store friction. Here is when it is actually worth it.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
Should You Build a Marketplace, a SaaS, or a Service Business?
Three business models, three very different bets. Here is how to pick the one that matches your actual situation.
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- MVP Development and Startup Builds
Should Founders Code Their Own MVP? An Honest Answer
The answer depends on one question: can you ship something real in under 60 days?
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- SaaS Architecture and Scaling
Sharding Strategies for SaaS: When to Start and When to Stop Avoiding It
Sharding is a last resort, not a first move. Here is the honest decision framework for SaaS teams.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
shadcn/ui in Production: A Practical Read
shadcn/ui gives you ownership over your components. Here is what that actually means in a real project.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
Settings and Preferences: A Common Pattern Done Badly
Settings pages reveal how well an app is architected. Most of them reveal the opposite.
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- Security, Auth, and Compliance
Session Management for Web Apps: A Modern Take
Sessions are the foundation of authenticated web applications. JWT vs cookies, refresh token rotation, session invalidation: here is how modern session management works and what each choice costs.
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- Performance Optimization
Service Workers: When They Help and When They Hurt
Service workers enable offline capability, push notifications, and background sync. They also introduce caching complexity that can serve stale content to users indefinitely. Here is when to use them and when to stay away.
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- SaaS Architecture and Scaling
Service Decomposition: Drawing the Right Lines
Breaking a monolith into services is often the right move and often done wrong. The lines drawn between services determine whether the architecture produces independent deployability or distributed complexity. Here is how to draw the right lines.
6 min read
- Backend, APIs, and System Design
Serverless vs Containers vs Bare Metal: A Cost and Flexibility Map
The compute model you choose determines cost structure, operational overhead, and scalability ceiling. Here is how serverless, containers, and bare metal compare across the dimensions that actually matter for a product decision.
6 min read
- Security, Auth, and Compliance
Server Side Request Forgery: The Quiet Killer in SaaS Integrations
SSRF lets attackers make your server request internal resources they cannot access themselves. SaaS products that fetch external URLs are especially vulnerable. Here is how it works and how to prevent it.
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- Performance Optimization
Server Rendering vs Client Rendering vs Static: The 2026 Map
The rendering model you choose determines initial load performance, SEO, deployment complexity, and developer experience. Here is a clear map of when each approach wins in 2026.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
Server Components in Practice: A Founder Engineer Story
React Server Components change the data fetching model fundamentally. Here is what adopting them in a real product looks like, what the mental model shift requires, and what they are worth for a founder who writes their own code.
6 min read
- Backend, APIs, and System Design
Server Actions, Edge Functions, and the Modern Backend Surface
The backend is no longer just an API server. Server actions, edge functions, and server components have changed where logic runs and what a backend even means in 2026. Here is how the pieces fit together.
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- Comparisons and Vendor Decisions
Sentry vs Datadog vs New Relic for Errors and Performance
Error tracking and performance monitoring serve different needs. Sentry, Datadog, and New Relic overlap but are not equivalent. Here is how to choose based on what your product actually needs to observe.
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More than blog posts.
The Labs folder has the experiments themselves. The Systems folder has the stack and architecture. The Journey folder has the timeline. Pick whichever pulls you.