Knowledge & Architecture
Deep-dive technical guides on backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, performance optimization, and specialized Arabic web engineering. Built for staff engineers, tech leads, and web developers.
Eliminate Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) with cryptographic nonces, 'strict-dynamic', and automated violation reporting without breaking streaming SSR or third-party analytics.
Tajawal's Arabic-only WOFF2 is under 18KB. Harmattan's is nearly 15x larger for the same job, and more than half the variable-font options measured here are bigger than the static files they're meant to replace.
A 369-comment, year-old Claude Code feature request for AGENTS.md just closed as completed, not through native parsing but through a documented @-import and a new /import command. Here's what actually shipped, and how to write your own file.
The hands-on companion to the OKF-vs-RAG question — writing a spec-conformant bundle under the current v0.2 rules, without needing Google's BigQuery-specific reference agent.
Service boundaries, the transactional outbox pattern, and compensating transactions — the parts of microservices architecture that break in production, not the diagram.
A system-level guide to building Arabic and bilingual websites that handle direction, mixed text, layout, search, forms, URLs, SEO, typography, numbers, and email correctly.
The health check, process-resilience strategy, free TLS, and zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline most Docker + Nginx tutorials stop short of.
A step-by-step architectural guide to non-root container security, Nginx reverse proxy tuning, rate limiting, and CloudFront origin protection.
The seven changes most likely to break your build when you upgrade — with real fixes, not just a changelog summary.
A complete, step-by-step architectural guide to deploying high-performance static websites using S3, CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC), ACM SSL certificates, and Route 53 DNS.
A comprehensive architectural guide to Right-to-Left (RTL) typography, bidirectional Unicode handling, text normalization, and Arabic URL slugification.
A practical guide to parsing AWS Application Load Balancer access logs, isolating target response latency, and diagnosing high-concurrency production issues.