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Arun Arivanandam
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architecture

4 posts

  1. 13 min read

    React State from first principles

    Learn react useState hook from first principles. Use states with confidence.

  2. 4 min read

    What MongoDB change streams actually cost you

    Change streams removed a polling loop and a whole class of duplicate-payout bugs. They also introduced three failure modes I had not budgeted for.

  3. 3 min read

    Stop putting business logic in Express middleware

    Middleware that mutates the request object reads like dependency injection and behaves like a global variable. Here is the refactor that finally stuck.

  4. 3 min read

    A React data layer that survives a bad network

    Notes from building an offline-first pharmacy app for shops on 2G, where the connection is not an edge case but the normal operating condition.