Category: Engineering
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Live auctions online: what makes bidding feel fair
Online bidding only works if people trust the price, the clock and the result. What an auction site has to…
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React Native, native or a web app: how to choose how your mobile app is built
One codebase for iPhone and Android, separate native apps, or a web app people install from the browser. What each…
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Stock and billing in one system: keeping a shop’s numbers straight
When the stock count lives in one place and the bills in another, the two drift apart. What a shop…
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Who should see what: access levels in a business web application
Once more than a handful of people use your application, “everyone sees everything” stops working. How to decide who sees…
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Why a website needs work after it launches
A site that launched and works will still drift, because everything around it keeps moving. What actually decays, and what’s…
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When to build your own API, and when to just integrate
Whether you need an API matters less than where your business logic lives. How to tell when integrating directly is…
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What a slow website actually costs you
A slow page still costs you every visitor you paid to bring there. Where the time goes, how to measure…
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Signs your WordPress site needs modernization
Slow pages, risky updates and a plugin list nobody can explain are symptoms, not causes. How to tell a site…
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React or Next.js: which one your project needs
React is a library for building user interfaces. Next.js is a framework built on top of it. Which one you…