https://shawab.space/blog/ Practical, code-first articles on WordPress, React, Next.js, AI integration, Node.js, PHP, DevOps and web performance. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 https://shawab.space/blog/building-scalable-rag-pipelines-nextjs https://shawab.space/blog/building-scalable-rag-pipelines-nextjs Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML A production blueprint for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Next.js: chunking, embeddings, pgvector hybrid search, streaming answers and caching. Code included. https://shawab.space/blog/nodejs-vs-bun-2026-benchmarks https://shawab.space/blog/nodejs-vs-bun-2026-benchmarks Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend I benchmarked HTTP throughput, install speed and cold starts on the same hardware. Where Bun genuinely wins, where Node still leads, and how to migrate incrementally. https://shawab.space/blog/dockerize-php-wordpress-development-production https://shawab.space/blog/dockerize-php-wordpress-development-production Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 DevOps A Docker Compose stack with Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL and Redis for local work, plus a multi-stage production image that is small, cache-friendly and fast to deploy. https://shawab.space/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-server-tutorial https://shawab.space/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-server-tutorial Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML Learn what the Model Context Protocol is, why it replaced bespoke tool integrations, and build a TypeScript MCP server that exposes WordPress data to Claude and Cursor. https://shawab.space/blog/react-server-components-explained https://shawab.space/blog/react-server-components-explained Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend Server vs client components, the RSC payload, where data fetching belongs, and a migration path from a client-only React app. Clear rules, real code, common mistakes. https://shawab.space/blog/headless-wordpress-nextjs-architecture-guide https://shawab.space/blog/headless-wordpress-nextjs-architecture-guide Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture WPGraphQL vs REST, ISR with on-demand revalidation from WordPress hooks, preview mode, image handling and the hosting cost model. Built from real client migrations. https://shawab.space/blog/integrating-llm-apis-php-wordpress https://shawab.space/blog/integrating-llm-apis-php-wordpress Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML Add AI features to PHP and WordPress safely: a cURL client with retries, streaming via SSE, prompt caching, cost control and a real content-summariser plugin walkthrough. https://shawab.space/blog/core-web-vitals-2026-inp-lcp-cls-guide https://shawab.space/blog/core-web-vitals-2026-inp-lcp-cls-guide Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Performance A diagnosis-first approach to Core Web Vitals: find the real INP culprit with the Long Animation Frames API, preload the LCP image correctly and kill layout shift. https://shawab.space/blog/production-rest-api-nodejs-postgresql https://shawab.space/blog/production-rest-api-nodejs-postgresql Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend Not another todo API. Layered architecture, validation, connection pooling, idempotency keys, pagination, structured logging and graceful shutdown, with runnable code. https://shawab.space/blog/nextjs-app-router-caching-guide https://shawab.space/blog/nextjs-app-router-caching-guide Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend The four Next.js caches explained with diagrams: request memoisation, data cache, full route cache and router cache. When to use revalidateTag, ISR and dynamic rendering. https://shawab.space/blog/developer-portfolio-website-seo-guide https://shawab.space/blog/developer-portfolio-website-seo-guide Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Career What hiring managers and Google both want from a developer portfolio: project case studies, technical SEO, schema markup, performance budget and the pages that convert. https://shawab.space/blog/why-custom-wordpress-themes-outperform-page-builders https://shawab.space/blog/why-custom-wordpress-themes-outperform-page-builders Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Performance How replacing heavy visual builders with custom PHP themes and optimised grids cut load time by over 60% and fixed Core Web Vitals for real client sites. https://shawab.space/blog/system-design-fundamentals-caching-queues-rate-limiting https://shawab.space/blog/system-design-fundamentals-caching-queues-rate-limiting Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture The three building blocks behind almost every scalable system, explained with diagrams and code: cache-aside vs write-through, queue back-pressure and token-bucket limiters. https://shawab.space/blog/ai-agents-tool-calling-architecture-patterns https://shawab.space/blog/ai-agents-tool-calling-architecture-patterns Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML Move beyond chatbot demos. Compare the ReAct loop, planner-executor and router patterns for AI agents, with a TypeScript tool-calling loop, guardrails and cost limits. https://shawab.space/blog/github-actions-ci-cd-deploy-aws https://shawab.space/blog/github-actions-ci-cd-deploy-aws Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 DevOps A complete pipeline: lint and test on pull requests, build a Docker image, push to ECR, deploy with zero downtime and roll back on failure. OIDC, no long-lived keys. https://shawab.space/blog/htmx-vs-react-when-to-use-which https://shawab.space/blog/htmx-vs-react-when-to-use-which Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend An honest comparison from someone who ships both. Hypermedia vs component state, SEO, team skills, and the decision matrix I use for client projects, including this site. https://shawab.space/blog/integrating-react-components-into-legacy-php https://shawab.space/blog/integrating-react-components-into-legacy-php Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend Modernise old PHP codebases by injecting React components with Vite, JSON hydration and hash routing, without a full rewrite or breaking SEO. https://shawab.space/blog/graphql-vs-rest-vs-trpc https://shawab.space/blog/graphql-vs-rest-vs-trpc Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend A decision framework instead of a hype cycle. Caching, type safety, client diversity, team size and the WordPress/Shopify realities that push most projects to REST. https://shawab.space/blog/prompt-engineering-for-developers-structured-outputs https://shawab.space/blog/prompt-engineering-for-developers-structured-outputs Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML Treat prompts as code: JSON schema outputs, few-shot examples, system prompt layering, versioning and automated evals so your LLM features stop breaking in production. https://shawab.space/blog/redis-caching-strategies-wordpress-nodejs https://shawab.space/blog/redis-caching-strategies-wordpress-nodejs Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Performance Object cache, full-page cache, fragment cache and rate limiting, with WordPress drop-in configuration and a Node.js cache-aside helper that handles stampedes correctly. https://shawab.space/blog/tailwind-css-v4-migration-guide https://shawab.space/blog/tailwind-css-v4-migration-guide Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend Move from tailwind.config.js to the CSS-first @theme setup, understand the new Oxide engine, fix renamed utilities and migrate a WordPress theme without breaking production. https://shawab.space/blog/monolith-vs-microservices-modular-monolith https://shawab.space/blog/monolith-vs-microservices-modular-monolith Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture Microservices solve organisational problems most teams do not have. How to structure a modular monolith with enforced boundaries so you can extract services later, if ever. https://shawab.space/blog/modern-php-8-features-wordpress-developers https://shawab.space/blog/modern-php-8-features-wordpress-developers Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend Enums, readonly classes, match, named arguments, fibers and property hooks, shown through real WordPress theme and plugin code that is cleaner, safer and faster. https://shawab.space/blog/semantic-search-ecommerce-embeddings-pgvector https://shawab.space/blog/semantic-search-ecommerce-embeddings-pgvector Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI & ML Replace keyword-only product search with embeddings. Schema design, hybrid ranking with BM25, WooCommerce and Shopify sync strategies and the latency numbers I measured. https://shawab.space/blog/headless-shopify-is-it-worth-the-development-time https://shawab.space/blog/headless-shopify-is-it-worth-the-development-time Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture The ROI of building custom storefronts on the Shopify Storefront API versus Liquid themes for mid-sized merchants, from a developer who has shipped both. https://shawab.space/blog/event-driven-architecture-redis-bullmq https://shawab.space/blog/event-driven-architecture-redis-bullmq Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture Decouple slow work from HTTP requests. Producers, workers, retries with back-off, idempotent handlers, dead-letter queues and the order-processing flow I built for a store. https://shawab.space/blog/authentication-passkeys-oauth-jwt-guide https://shawab.space/blog/authentication-passkeys-oauth-jwt-guide Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend How modern auth actually fits together: WebAuthn passkeys for login, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE for delegation, short-lived JWTs with refresh rotation, and the mistakes to avoid. https://shawab.space/blog/typescript-patterns-scalable-react-apps https://shawab.space/blog/typescript-patterns-scalable-react-apps Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Frontend Discriminated unions for UI state, typed API layers with Zod, generic components, branded types and the tsconfig settings that catch bugs before your users do. https://shawab.space/blog/cloudflare-workers-edge-computing-guide https://shawab.space/blog/cloudflare-workers-edge-computing-guide Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 DevOps What runs well at the edge and what does not. Build an A/B routing worker, a cache-aware API proxy and a geo personaliser with KV, plus how I front WordPress with Workers. https://shawab.space/blog/stay-relevant-developer-age-of-ai https://shawab.space/blog/stay-relevant-developer-age-of-ai Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Career AI writes more of the code now. Here is what still commands a salary: systems thinking, debugging, product judgement, and how I restructured my own learning around it. https://shawab.space/blog/database-indexing-strategies-mysql-postgresql https://shawab.space/blog/database-indexing-strategies-mysql-postgresql Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Backend How B-tree indexes work, composite index column order, covering indexes, reading EXPLAIN, and the WordPress postmeta query I took from 4.2s to 18ms with one index. https://shawab.space/blog/nginx-performance-tuning-php https://shawab.space/blog/nginx-performance-tuning-php Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530 DevOps Worker processes, keepalive, FastCGI caching, Brotli, HTTP/3 and PHP-FPM pool sizing. The exact config changes that doubled requests per second on a client VPS. https://shawab.space/blog/multi-tenant-saas-architecture-guide https://shawab.space/blog/multi-tenant-saas-architecture-guide Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Architecture Shared schema vs schema-per-tenant vs database-per-tenant, tenant resolution middleware, row-level security in PostgreSQL, and Stripe-based plan enforcement. https://shawab.space/blog/building-a-remote-web-career-from-aligarh https://shawab.space/blog/building-a-remote-web-career-from-aligarh Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Career Reflections on moving from local freelance projects in Aligarh to full-time remote roles with digital agencies, and how to set up a workspace that supports it. https://shawab.space/blog/remote-developer-interview-preparation https://shawab.space/blog/remote-developer-interview-preparation Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Career A four-week plan for remote developer interviews: the system design template that works on a whiteboard call, live coding under time pressure and async communication tests.