February 22, 2019 — This article makes a tour of the PHP features newly-available to WordPress, and attempts to suggest how these can be used to produce better software. Read More…

January 21, 2019 — In the world of APIs, GraphQL has lately overshadowed REST due to its ability to query and retrieve all required data in a single request. In this article, I will describe a different type of API, based around components, which takes a step further the amount of data it can … Read More…

December 5, 2018 — When optimizing the speed of our websites from the server side, caching ranks among the most critical tasks to get just right. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz examines an architecture based on self-rendering components and SSR, and analyzes how to implement it for … Read More…

November 26, 2018 — Overusing inline CSS or JS code, as opposed to serving code through static resources, can harm the site’s performance. In this article, we will learn how to load dynamic code through static files instead, avoiding the drawbacks of too much inline code. Read More…

November 20, 2018 — What does Gutenberg bring to the future of WordPress? In this article, Leonardo Losoviz shares a number of implications of building sites through a component-based architecture (as the concept) and through Gutenberg (as the implementation), including what new functionalities … Read More…

November 13, 2018 — Sending many transactional emails at once, if not architected properly, could become a bottleneck for the application and degrade the user experience. Part of the problem is connecting to the SMTP server from within the application, synchronously. In this article we will … Read More…

November 8, 2018 — When creating a multi-step form in which a file is uploaded and manipulated, if the application is running on several servers behind a load balancer, then we need to make sure that the file is available all throughout the execution of the process, for whichever server … Read More…

February 23, 2018 — It’s a well-known fact that it’s not easy for WP websites to implement code-splitting through Webpack. Leonardo takes things into his own hands and implements his own version of code-splitting for an open-source framework named PoP. Read More…

February 2, 2018 — What if we could have a WordPress website in which its dynamic content could be exported as static files? Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can combine both worlds: switch to a static site generator without having to abandon WordPress. Read More…

October 11, 2017 — Through service workers, all framework and application code to output the HTML view can be precached in the browser, thus speeding up both the first meaningful paint and the time to interact. In this article, I will share my experience with implementing service workers for … Read More…