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Engineering · 4 min read

Going headless: why we decoupled from the monolith

We moved our frontend off WordPress and onto a Node.js static build. Here's what we learned about routing, caching, and deployment pipelines.

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DevOps · 6 min read

Direct upload deployments without a connected git repo

Not every team uses GitHub or GitLab. This is how we ship to WP Engine Headless from Azure Repos using the direct upload API and a single bash script.

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Performance · 3 min read

Static sites are fast. Here's the data.

After switching to a pre-built static frontend, our LCP dropped from 3.8s to 0.9s. We ran the numbers across 30 days of real-user metrics.

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