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Practical guides on architecture decisions, migration strategies, and engineering leadership for startup teams.

The Frontend Architecture Review: A Template for CTOs

A structured template CTOs can use to audit their frontend architecture across component reuse, state management, build performance, testing, onboarding, and code consistency.

State Management in React: Zustand vs Redux vs Context in 2026

Tired of state management debates? Here's a practical framework for choosing between Zustand, Redux Toolkit, and React Context based on your actual app complexity, team size, and performance needs.

Why Startups Keep Rebuilding Their Frontend (and How to Stop)

Explore why startups fall into the frontend rewrite cycle every 12-18 months and the architectural investments that break the pattern.

How to Build Real-Time Dashboards That Don't Kill Performance

A practical guide to building real-time dashboards with React. Covers WebSocket architecture, virtualized rendering, memoization strategies, and the patterns that separate smooth dashboards from sluggish ones.

CI/CD for Frontend Teams: From Zero to Production Confidence

A step-by-step guide to building CI/CD pipelines for frontend teams. Covers GitHub Actions, linting, testing, preview deployments, and the quality gates that separate amateur deployments from professional ones.

The Founding Engineer's Guide to Handing Off Frontend Architecture

A practical guide for founding engineers who need to hand off their frontend codebase to a growing team.

How to Scale a Frontend Team From 1 to 10 Without Losing Velocity

Learn how to scale a frontend team from a solo developer to 10+ engineers. Covers hiring, onboarding, code review, architecture patterns, and the organizational decisions that determine whether your team speeds up or slows down.

How to Survive a Frontend Rewrite Without Stopping Feature Work

Learn how to incrementally rewrite a frontend codebase using the strangler fig pattern while keeping features shipping.

Why Your MVP Needs a Design System (and How to Build One Fast)

Learn why even MVPs benefit from a lightweight design system and how to build one fast using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS. Practical, not theoretical.

The Hiring Trap: Why Adding Developers Actually Makes You Slower

When your frontend architecture is broken, hiring more developers creates more inconsistency, longer onboarding, and compounding confusion.

Frontend Architecture Isn't a Senior Developer's Job

Writing excellent React components and designing scalable frontend systems are fundamentally different skills. Learn when your team needs architectural thinking.

The Frontend Performance Optimization Checklist You'll Actually Use

Stop guessing about performance. This checklist covers the highest-impact optimizations for React apps: Core Web Vitals, bundle splitting, image optimization, rendering performance, and caching strategies — in priority order.

The Velocity Death Spiral: When Tech Debt Meets Shipping Pressure

Understand the feedback loop where technical debt slows delivery, shipping pressure creates shortcuts, and shortcuts deepen debt.

Multi-Tenant SaaS Frontend Architecture: A Practical Guide

Learn how to architect a multi-tenant SaaS frontend with React. Covers tenant isolation, RBAC, dynamic theming, data scoping, and the patterns that make or break SaaS applications at scale.

10 Frontend Red Flags Every CTO Should Know

A practical checklist of 10 frontend warning signs CTOs can spot without reading code. Each red flag maps to a real engineering pain point.

TypeScript Patterns That Separate Junior Code From Senior Code

Move beyond basic TypeScript types. Learn discriminated unions, branded types, type-safe API layers, exhaustive pattern matching, and the patterns that senior engineers use to make bugs impossible at compile time.

Technical Debt in Startups: A Practical Guide to Managing It

A practical framework for understanding, measuring, and managing technical debt in startups. Learn when to refactor, when to ship, and how to communicate it.

How I Audit a Startup's Frontend Codebase in 48 Hours

A behind-the-scenes look at how a fractional frontend architect evaluates architecture, component reuse, state management, build pipelines, and testing in a 48-hour audit.

The First 30 Days of a Frontend Architecture Engagement

A transparent look at the first 30 days of a frontend architecture engagement — from codebase audit to first quick wins.

React Component Architecture Patterns That Scale

Explore proven React component patterns including compound components, hooks architecture, atomic design, and performance optimization strategies.

When to Hire a Fractional Frontend Architect vs. a Full-Time Senior

A practical comparison of fractional frontend architects vs. full-time senior hires with cost breakdowns and guidance for each startup stage.

What Is a Fractional Frontend Architect (and When Do You Need One)?

Discover what a fractional frontend architect does, how they compare to full-time hires and agencies, and when this model makes sense for your startup.

Your MVP Worked. Your Architecture Didn't.

Learn why successful MVPs often become architectural liabilities, when to refactor vs. rewrite, and how to evolve a prototype into production-grade software.

You Hired Senior Engineers — Why Is Output Still Junior-Level?

Explore why senior developer titles don't always translate to senior-level output and where startup engineering budgets quietly disappear.

The Complete Guide to Migrating from Create React App to Vite

A practical, step-by-step guide to migrating from Create React App to Vite. Covers env vars, testing, CI/CD changes, and common pitfalls.

Why New Developers Can't Ship for Three Weeks (and What to Do About It)

Understand why new developer onboarding takes weeks instead of days, how missing conventions multiply ramp-up time, and what changes cut onboarding to under a week.

The Startup Founder's Guide to Frontend Architecture

Learn why frontend architecture matters for startups, common mistakes to avoid, and how to choose the right stack, structure, and team model.

Tech Debt Is Eating Your Engineering Budget (Here's the Math)

A data-driven look at how frontend technical debt silently consumes 30% or more of engineering velocity, with concrete cost calculations and strategies to stop the bleeding.

The Hidden Cost of Having No Frontend Owner

Learn why the absence of frontend ownership is the number one cause of silent technical debt, how architecture-by-committee erodes quality, and what intentional ownership looks like.

Why Your Features Take Weeks Instead of Days

Explore why shipping velocity slows down as codebases grow, how tightly coupled architecture creates invisible friction, and what architectural changes restore speed without rewrites.

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