Case Studies

Longer pieces about a problem rather than a thing that was built — what the constraint was, which way it was resolved, and what that cost.

A Thousand Kilobytes
August '26

This case study covers two bundle-size investigations: reducing the initial download for an observability app, then reducing the import costs of a shared UI library four years later....

At: Edge Delta , Archon Tech

Tools for the Machine
June '26

This case study describes two toolkit features: synchronizing interaction across multiple charts, and allowing a coding agent to inspect and update an application through browser tools....

At: Archon Tech

A Design System That Compiles
May '26

Several products displayed similar data but had separate implementations of their user interfaces. This toolkit provides shared components and conventions, with static checks and documentation to guide both engineers and coding agents using it....

At: Archon Tech

Watching a Model Answer
January '26

Standard service metrics showed whether the chat assistant was available and responsive, but not whether its answers were safe or useful. The observability work added metrics for response quality and safety signals....

At: Archon Tech

Owning the Preview
August '25

At Edge Delta, the app used Storybook with Chromatic for visual regression. At Archon, the shared toolkit has a published component preview and its own screenshot tests. In both cases, the teams needed checks that understood how their code was built and reviewed....

At: Edge Delta , Archon Tech

Two Bridges
January '24

The web app moved from Angular to React over a year, with both frameworks running together while the team migrated one surface at a time....

At: Edge Delta

Project Concord
November '23

The backend and frontend maintained roughly a hundred separate descriptions of the same data structures. Differences between those definitions could lead to API payloads that the frontend did not expect....

At: Edge Delta , Archon Tech