Surviving the (parsing) Storm
How an event-loop blocking issue turned into a multi-week review of per-key revivers, schema-driven walkers, simdjson, V8 codegen, and ultimately a custom Serialization/Deserialization pipeline.
The full archive
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Everything we've written so far — architecture decisions, rewrites worth their cost, incident reviews, and the long-tail investigations we wish someone else had published first.
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The Silent Flag: How a Single Query Parameter Tanked Our Database Performance
One query parameter. No code changes. 59% faster at P95. 68% faster at P99. That's what deleting a stray flag from our Prisma connection string did to database performance across our platform. The flag had been silently taxing every query for months after a migration we thought was complete.
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The Magic We Are Losing But Also The Magic We Are Gathering
Reflections on AI agents in software development, embracing automation without losing the magic of creation, and how Trellis approaches AI adoption as a supplement to developers rather than a replacement.
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Trellis 2025 (Technical) Year in Review
A look back at 2025, what we worked on, how fast (or slow?) we moved, state of the codebase and the major projects we worked on.
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Quality at Trellis: Our Vision for Testing and Automation
How we built a comprehensive testing strategy that lets us move fast without sacrificing stability, featuring our layered approach from unit tests to load testing with [K6](https://k6.io), and the tools that power our quality-first culture.
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Productivity at Trellis: Thank you, Nx.
An in-depth analysis of our Nx task graph, target distribution, and how Nx Cloud has saved us over 26 years of computation time across our monorepo.
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Building at Scale: How Trellis Structures Our Nx Monorepo
A deep dive into how we've architected our Nx workspace to support 14 applications and 1200+ libraries, including custom plugins, module boundaries, and deployment strategies.
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Comparing Angular v11 (Webpack 4) to Angular v12 (Webpack 5) build performance and size
Performance comparison between Angular v11 with Webpack 4 and Angular v12 with Webpack 5, including build times and bundle sizes.
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Converting a Legacy Codebase to Nx Incremental Builds
A guide to converting legacy codebases to use Nx's incremental compilation, including common issues and solutions.