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Engineering Blog — Architecture, Scaling & Full Stack Development

Welcome to my engineering blog, where I share practical insights from building production-grade software systems. These articles cover software architecture patterns, scaling strategies for web applications, API design best practices, and delivery methodologies that I've applied across real-world projects.

My writing is grounded in hands-on experience with Next.js, NestJS, React, TypeScript, MySQL, and modern DevOps tools. Whether you're a junior developer looking to level up your architecture skills or a senior engineer exploring new patterns, you'll find actionable takeaways in every post. Each article focuses on real problems I've encountered and how I solved them in production.

Interested in collaborating or have a topic you'd like me to cover? Get in touch — I'm always open to discussing engineering challenges and sharing knowledge with the community.

How We Scaled PostNitro to $5k MRR — engineering blog post cover

2026-03-17 | 5 min read

How We Scaled PostNitro to $5k MRR

An inside look at the engineering and team efforts behind scaling the PostNitro AI social media application

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Designing a Scalable NestJS + Next.js Architecture — engineering blog post cover

2026-02-02 | 8 min read

Designing a Scalable NestJS + Next.js Architecture

How to structure boundaries between frontend and backend so teams can ship quickly without creating long-term complexity.

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Scaling MERN Apps Without Slowing Product Delivery — engineering blog post cover

2026-01-26 | 7 min read

Scaling MERN Apps Without Slowing Product Delivery

A practical guide to improving API throughput, database reliability, and frontend responsiveness in MERN products.

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Using Server Actions in Next.js 16 for Real Product Flows — engineering blog post cover

2026-01-13 | 6 min read

Using Server Actions in Next.js 16 for Real Product Flows

Where Server Actions shine, where they do not, and how to combine them with route handlers for production systems.

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Building Production APIs: Contracts, Retries, and Observability — engineering blog post cover

2025-12-22 | 8 min read

Building Production APIs: Contracts, Retries, and Observability

The API patterns that reduce outages and make backend evolution safer across fast-moving teams.

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Five Engineering Lessons From Real-World Product Delivery — engineering blog post cover

2025-12-05 | 6 min read

Five Engineering Lessons From Real-World Product Delivery

Lessons learned from shipping features under pressure while balancing quality, scope, and performance.

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Topics covered on this blog

Articles here are organized around problems I have seen repeatedly in production: unclear boundaries between services, APIs that are hard to evolve, databases that become hot spots under load, and frontends that feel slow even when the network is fine. I write for engineers who want repeatable patterns rather than one-off hacks—especially teams using Next.js on the frontend and NestJS or Node on the backend.

Expect deep dives on REST and contract design, idempotency, retries, observability, and safe rollouts, alongside product-delivery notes on scope, quality, and measuring what users actually experience. If you are comparing approaches for a greenfield system or tightening an existing MERN or TypeScript stack, these posts are written to be cited, shared, and applied—not skimmed once and forgotten.

  • Architecture and module boundaries for full-stack TypeScript codebases
  • Scaling reads and writes without freezing feature work
  • Production API reliability, logging, and incident response
  • Next.js patterns including Server Actions where they fit real flows