// Articles
Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
What to use when you need more than an edge-first framework
A practical guide to choosing the right framework for your project
Write infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, or Go on top of the Terraform engine
Where to look when Crossplane's Kubernetes dependency or operational weight stops fitting
A practical, audience-segmented decision on when Terraform earns its place and when it's overhead
The real options for TS and Node engineers who don't want to write HCL
A step-by-step migration path that imports existing resources instead of recreating them
How tRPC gives TypeScript apps end-to-end type safety, where it fits next to gRPC and REST, and when to reach for something else.
The build-versus-buy decision, what you assemble if you build, and the ongoing cost most teams underestimate
The discipline behind the internal developer platform, how it differs from DevOps and SRE, and when a company actually needs a platform team
What a gateway does, the patterns worth knowing, and when a small system is better off without one
Synchronous calls versus events, the tradeoffs of each, and the reliability work that makes either one hold up