Writing

Frontend

Redux that survives a complex checkout

A real checkout has more state than a tutorial admits. A few rules keep a large Redux store maintainable. Normalize it, read through selectors, and keep side effects out of components.

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Why I reach for Vert.x on high-throughput services

A thread per request does not scale to thousands of concurrent connections. An event loop does. Vert.x on the JVM with Kotlin makes non-blocking services that stay fast under load.

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