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The foundations AI products run on: Next.js and TypeScript architecture, APIs and headless CMS, hosting and its costs, and generative engine optimization.
CVE-2026-110264 lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed GitLab, in every release back to 7.0. Which version to move to, why the backports don’t close the whole release, and how to upgrade without a second incident.
Postgres full-text search returns nothing for a misspelling, by design. What trigram matching fixes, the wrong rows it brings with it, how to combine the two, and when a search engine with real typo tolerance earns its keep.
Most teams that “chose microservices” got distributed coupling instead. Here’s how to keep one Next.js deploy while making module boundaries real: public module APIs, ESLint import zones, per-module table ownership, and an anti-corruption layer for WordPress.
AWS tells you to avoid monoliths; Microsoft tells you to run a readiness assessment first. Here’s how to read both, what a service actually costs per year regardless of traffic, and how to enforce module boundaries so extraction stays cheap.
The monthly invoice is the smallest term in the comparison. A cost teardown of a single VPS against a managed Node.js-capable platform: patching hours, exposure from first boot, runtime upgrade cadence, and the compatibility work you skip or inherit.
A practical guide to drawing the server/client boundary in the Next.js App Router: what actually moves into the client bundle, why leaf components beat server-everything purism, and how to audit an existing tree for misplaced directives.
