How to Navigate Microservices as a Frontend Engineer freeCodeCamp A practical guide to consuming microservices from the frontend — handling multiple API contracts, managing distributed state, dealing with partial failures, and building resilient UI layers. May 4, 2026 · 1 min read · frontend, microservices
Service-to-Service Communication: When to Use REST, gRPC, and Event-Driven Messaging freeCodeCamp A practical comparison of REST, gRPC, and event-driven messaging for service-to-service communication, with real trade-offs around latency, coupling, schema evolution, and operational complexity. April 14, 2026 · 24 min read · distributed-systems, architecture
How to Detect and Handle Byzantine Failures in Distributed Systems Strategies for detecting and handling the hardest class of distributed systems bugs: when services return 200 OK but the data is wrong. April 4, 2026 · 22 min read · distributed-systems, architecture
How to Build Reusable Architecture for Large Next.js Applications freeCodeCamp A practical look at structuring scalable Next.js projects and sharing logic across apps with Turborepo, Server Components, and feature-based folder structure. April 3, 2026 · 1 min read · nextjs, architecture
Designing Resilient APIs: Retry Strategies, Circuit Breakers, and Graceful Degradation Building APIs that handle failure well, from retry policies and circuit breakers to bulkheads and fallback strategies in distributed systems. March 16, 2026 · 20 min read · distributed-systems, architecture
How to Measure and Optimize Core Web Vitals on High-Traffic Pages Learn how to instrument, measure, and improve LCP, INP, and CLS on production pages serving millions of users. March 6, 2026 · 11 min read · performance, web-vitals
How to Use React Server Components in Production: Trade-offs and Patterns A practical guide to React Server Component architecture decisions, common pitfalls, and patterns that actually work in production applications. February 24, 2026 · 10 min read · react, nextjs
Does memo Actually Save Memory? What every React developer should understand about memoization, with benchmarks and practical guidance. February 4, 2026 · 9 min read · react, performance
Hovue: Building an Animated Vue Icon Library with Motion Baked In A Vue 3 icon library where every icon comes with smooth CSS animations out of the box. January 15, 2026 · 5 min read · vue, open-source
RAG Without the LLM: Building Context-First Retrieval Pipelines Why retrieval quality matters more than generation, and how to build an LLM-agnostic RAG architecture that lets you swap models, or skip them entirely. January 8, 2026 · 11 min read · python, rag
Parsing Heterogeneous Metadata: A Case Study in Multi-Format ETL How to extract unified data from ISO 19115 XML, JSON, RDF Turtle, and Schema.org using the Template Method pattern, XPath navigation, and aggressive normalization. January 3, 2026 · 10 min read · python, etl
Building a Semantic Search Engine from Scratch: Embeddings, ChromaDB, and the Metadata Trap The non-obvious challenges of vector database integration, from metadata sanitization nightmares to lazy model loading patterns for production APIs. December 29, 2025 · 8 min read · python, chromadb
Achieving a Perfect 100/100 Lighthouse Score A technical deep dive into achieving perfect scores across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO for MyNaijaTax - Nigeria's privacy-first tax calculator. December 20, 2025 · 10 min read · performance, accessibility
Migrating My Portfolio from Next.js to Astro: A Technical Deep Dive A detailed account of how I migrated my portfolio website from Next.js 15 to Astro 5, including code comparisons, challenges, and lessons learned. December 17, 2025 · 9 min read · astro, nextjs
Design Patterns 101: Understanding Chain of Responsibility Pattern in TypeScript Learn how the Chain of Responsibility pattern enables flexible request handling by passing requests along a chain of handlers in TypeScript. March 14, 2024 · 5 min read · design-patterns, typescript
My Top 4 Resources for Learning and Revising Data Structures and Algorithms A curated collection of free and paid resources for preparing for Data Structures and Algorithms interviews, perfect for candidates with limited preparation time. January 20, 2023 · 3 min read · data-structures, algorithms
Taking the leap... Overcoming my fear of looking stupid by making my learning public. Here's to new beginnings and learning in public. December 27, 2022 · 2 min read · meta, personal
Welcome to My Blog An introduction to my blog where I share insights on web engineering, distributed systems, building scalable applications, and everything in between. December 27, 2022 · 1 min read · meta, introduction