ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Aug 24 · 4 min readWhy your MVP developer left you stuck (and how to tell before you hire the next one)I once inherited a project where the previous developer had shipped something that looked done. It had a UI, it took signups, it "worked" in the sense that a demo would go fine. The business had alrea00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Aug 23 · 4 min readYour AWS bill isn't a mystery - it's a receipt for decisions nobody revisitedMost AWS bills I've looked at aren't expensive because AWS is expensive. They're expensive because someone made a reasonable decision eighteen months ago and nobody's looked at it since. Here's a patt00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Aug 19 · 4 min readWhat a wedding content brand taught me about database designA client of mine runs a content production business — they shoot content for wedding vendors and local brands. When we started working together, "tracking the business" meant memory, DMs, and whatever00
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Aug 17 · 4 min readWhy your search bar is slow (and it's probably not the reason you think)A telecom platform I worked on let customers manage their contacts — over 50,000 of them, organized into groups ranging from 500 to 3,000 people each. Businesses used these groups to send messages, ru54TJ
ASAakib Shah Sayedinblog.aakibshah.com.np·Aug 17 · 8 min readDatabases in Websites and Android Apps: What They Are, Why They Matter, and Which to ChooseIf your website or Android app remembers users, shows personalized content, or works offline, it’s almost certainly using a database. Databases are the organized “memory” behind modern apps, turning s00
