Category: Development
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Monolith or Decoupled? Finding the Sweet Spot for Next.js and WordPress
Decoupled (headless) WordPress with Next.js is often pitched as the ultimate solution for sub-second page loads, ironclad security, and modern developer bliss. But nobody warns you about the “Hassle Tax”—the moment you realize you just broke previews, form submissions, SEO plugins, and visual editing. In this session, we will strip away the hype and look…
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What WordPress at Scale Taught Me
I have spent four years running WordPress at scale on Altis Cloud. I expected the lessons to be about infrastructure. Looking back, they were just good engineering habits. Assumptions are dangerous, better to seek the data to prove them, even the obvious ones. Unglamorous work pays off when things break. Willingness to understand beyond what…
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A Decade in Digital Agencies: What Actually Stuck
After more than 10 years working in the web development agency space across four different agencies, ranging from small teams to large enterprise-focused organizations, along with years spent freelancing, I’ve noticed something interesting: the hardest lessons in agency life rarely come from code alone. This talk is a collection of the lessons that stuck with…