6 articles tagged "Performance".
Engineering
Scalability rarely fails all at once — it fails one untested assumption at a time. The architecture decisions we revisit on every build before they become expensive to undo.
Our own site runs on the same headless architecture we build for clients: Laravel as the source of truth, Next.js as the renderer. Here's why we drew the line where we did.
Design
Speed and polish get treated as opposites, but the fastest products we've worked on are also the most carefully designed. A few of the trade-offs we make deliberately instead of by accident.
Treating performance as something you tune after launch usually means fighting decisions that were already baked into the design. It works better as a constraint from the first wireframe.
Most sites don't need more motion. They need the motion they already have to mean something. A short list of rules we hold ourselves to before adding any animation.
Performance work pays off in a predictable order — some fixes matter far more than others. Where we actually spend the budget when a site needs to get faster.
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