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Practical articles from Palmate Solutions on APIs, hosting, automation, e-commerce technology, and software planning — written beside the tools and services on this site.
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Topic pages list every article in that category, so older writing stays easy to find without infinite scroll.
10 articles
Cloud & DevOps
Hosting, containers, staging, backups, monitoring, and CI/CD for small teams that have to run what they ship.
8 articles
APIs & Integrations
Practical notes on connecting systems: REST vs webhooks vs polling, OAuth vs API keys, error handling operations can use, and checklists before you go live.
6 articles
Automation
Where Zapier is enough, where custom jobs win, how to write SOPs a system can follow, and how to keep a human in the loop.
6 articles
Business Systems
Spreadsheets vs software, SaaS vs custom, dashboards, MVPs, and what custom work actually costs to own.
6 articles
Mobile Development
When a native or cross-platform app is actually justified, how to plan the first release, and what offline, devices, and app stores change in the brief.
5 articles
Planning & Delivery
Discovery, requirements, vendor selection, handover, and technical debt: the planning work that happens before (and after) code.
5 articles
Security
Access control, secrets, Linux baselines, and what a small company should do after an incident — hygiene, not theatre.
4 articles
E-commerce Technology
Catalogue design, inventory sync, overselling, and payment gateways — the operational side of a store, not theme shopping.
4 articles
Web Development
How we structure, launch, and maintain business websites: information architecture, CMS vs custom builds, and the checks that belong in a real go-live.
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Mobile Development
Offline-First Mobile Architecture: SQLite Synchronization and Conflict Resolution
An engineering deep-dive into production offline-first mobile systems: SQLite WAL mode, change data capture (CDC) triggers, optimistic outbox pipelines, and CRDT vs. LWW conflict resolution.
Automation
Edge AI Inference in Modern Web Apps: WebAssembly, WebGPU, and Local Embeddings
How to run quantized embedding models directly in the browser using WebGPU and WebAssembly SIMD, eliminating cloud API inference costs and delivering zero-latency semantic vector search.
Cloud & DevOps
Scaling Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Serverless Workers
How to overcome the partition concurrency ceiling, stop consumer rebalance storms, implement non-blocking dead-letter queues, and control cloud costs when pairing Kafka with serverless compute.
APIs & Integrations
Zero-Trust API Security: Mutual TLS, Scoped Tokens, and Rate Limiting Patterns
A production engineering guide to zero-trust API architecture: eliminating perimeter-based trust using Mutual TLS (mTLS), cryptographically scoped ephemeral tokens, and distributed token-bucket rate limiting.
APIs & Integrations
Next-Gen Realtime Web: Replacing REST Polling with SSE, WebTransport & HTTP/3
Deep architectural comparison between Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and WebTransport over QUIC for modern real-time streaming, generative AI tokens, and live multi-user collaboration.
Cloud & DevOps
The Modular Monolith & Embedded Edge Databases: Escaping Microservices Overhead
Why high-scale engineering teams are ditching distributed microservices sprawl in favor of modular monoliths, LibSQL/SQLite edge replication, and DuckDB analytical engines.
Mobile Development
Edge AI & On-Device SLMs: Running Local Models in Web & Mobile Architectures
Architecting zero-latency, privacy-first applications using WebGPU, ONNX Runtime Web, and Small Language Models (Phi-4-mini, Llama 3.2 1B/3B) with serverless cloud fallbacks.
Security
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) & TLS 1.3: An Engineering Migration Roadmap
A practical guide to NIST’s finalized post-quantum standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA), mitigating 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later' attacks, and auditing cipher agility across cloud services, SSH, and VPNs.
Automation
Agentic AI Architectures: Building Deterministic Enterprise Systems Beyond Simple LLM Wrappers
How engineering teams design resilient multi-agent systems using state machines, Model Context Protocol (MCP), schema-enforced tool calling, and human-in-the-loop review to eliminate hallucination in production.
Web Development
Core Web Vitals Optimization for High-Conversion Websites
An engineering guide to diagnosing and fixing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) on Next.js and modern web stacks.
Security
Zero-Trust Architecture for SMB Engineering Teams
A pragmatic, vendor-neutral implementation guide for adopting Zero Trust security principles in small-to-medium engineering teams without enterprise bloat.
Mobile Development
When a Business Actually Needs a Mobile App
A practical test for whether a mobile app is justified — or whether a responsive website, PWA, or internal dashboard is the honest v1.