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Notes on platform-scale frontend. What worked, what surprised me, and what I'd do differently.

Platform Design

The Headless/UI Split: Building an SDK That Two Audiences Can Both Use

How splitting a fintech SDK into a headless layer and a UI layer let the platform work for both fast-moving and design-strict client teams, without forcing either to compromise.

SDK DesignPlatform ArchitectureReact NativeAPI Design
May 2026·7 min readRead article →
Frontend Architecture

Microfrontend Boundaries: How to Decide Where to Split

A working framework for deciding which workflows become independent microfrontend surfaces and which stay in the monolith. Drawn from modernizing BILL's AR platform.

MicrofrontendsArchitectureMigrationTeam Topology
May 2026·5 min readRead article →
Engineering Hygiene· Coming soon

Feature Flags Are a Code Smell (Eventually)

On rationalizing years of accumulated LaunchDarkly flags across a large frontend surface, and a lifecycle process that keeps flag sprawl from coming back.

Coming soon