Top Mobile App Development Trends in 2026: What's Real and What's NoiseEvery January, a fresh batch of trend lists appears, all stuffed with the same buzzwords. By spring, half of them have quietly vanished. So, here's a shorter list, built from what clients actually askOct 9 · 4 min readmittal-tech.hashnode.dev
JWT vs Sessions: Choosing Authentication for a Modern Web AppA few years ago, I inherited a codebase where every single API call carried a 4KB JWT stuffed with user preferences, feature flags, and a full permissions tree. Someone had read a blog post, decided sSep 28 · 7 min readmittal-tech.hashnode.dev
How to Build and Maintain Scalable Backend SystemsWe took down the checkout for eleven minutes during a flash sale because a single database table hit its connection pool limit and nothing in our stack degraded gracefully. Eleven minutes doesn't sounSep 14 · 6 min readmittal-tech.hashnode.dev
The Architecture Decisions That Determine Whether a Web App Can ScaleI've inherited enough legacy systems at this point to have a strong opinion about this: the architecture decisions that determine whether a web app can scale get made in the first few weeks of a projeSep 1 · 6 min readmittal-tech.hashnode.dev
How AI Coding Tools Are Changing the Way Developers Build WebsitesSix months ago, I would have told you AI coding assistants were mostly autocomplete with better marketing. I don't think that anymore. The way AI coding tools are changing how developers build websiteAug 18 · 6 min readmittal-tech.hashnode.dev
