6 articles tagged Webdev
WAF and bot management: what they miss
WAFs and bot managers filter known-bad requests, not business logic. Map blind spots, tune rules safely, and add application-layer controls.
16 min read · 9 November 2026
Core Web Vitals: what actually moves the needle
A decision framework for Core Web Vitals: read field distributions, find fixed costs that hit the slow tail, and verify changes with segmented RUM.
16 min read · 7 October 2026
Why progressive web apps fail on 2G and how to fix…
How to audit and fix a progressive web app for 2G and 3G: transport, payload, rendering, caching, and a 30-minute first step.
12 min read · 17 July 2026
AI in slow networks: why models flop where data costs rise
How to cut payload size, round-trips and cost for AI features on 2G/3G networks, with a worked ASR example, failure modes and a measurement checklist.
14 min read · 5 July 2026
Serve 4G-as-baseline apps in 2026
Design APIs for 300 ms RTT, packet loss and data caps: payload budgets, stale-while-revalidate caching, adaptive fetch and honest measurement.
14 min read · 3 July 2026
Ship 1MB pages on 4G: Starlink Africa case study
How to cut page weight with Brotli, fallback encoding, CDN caching and QUIC, plus how to measure transfer, TTFB and Core Web Vitals honestly.
13 min read · 12 June 2026