Engineering
The Anatomy of a Modern Tech Stack
Why the stack you choose in year one quietly decides what you can build in year five.
IGT · 20 Jul 20264 min
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Notes from the edge of practice
Interlink publishes what we learn while building. These essays document the decisions, trade-offs and technologies shaping software delivery today.
Mobile
Choosing Between Native and Cross-Platform
A decision framework that survives contact with real budgets and real users.
IGT · 11 Jul 20264 min
Read MoreWeb
Server Components and the Return of the Server
Rendering moved to the client for a decade. It is moving back, and for good reasons.
IGT · 02 Jul 20264 min
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence
Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Production
Everything nobody tells you about chunking, ranking and evaluation.
IGT · 23 Jun 20264 min
Read MoreArchitecture
Designing APIs That Outlive Their Authors
Versioning, contracts and the discipline of saying no to convenience.
IGT · 14 Jun 20264 min
Read MoreStrategy
The Economics of Technical Debt
Debt is not a moral failing. Unmeasured debt is.
IGT · 05 Jun 20264 min
Read MoreInfrastructure
Edge Computing for African Latency
Distance is a product decision when your users are 9,000 km from us-east-1.
IGT · 27 May 20264 min
Read MoreEngineering
Type Safety as a Product Feature
How static guarantees translate into fewer 2 a.m. incidents.
IGT · 18 May 20264 min
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence
Prompt Engineering Is Software Engineering
Prompts are code. Treat them accordingly: versioned, tested, reviewed.
IGT · 09 May 20264 min
Read MoreDesign
Design Systems Beyond the Component Library
Tokens, governance and the social contract that makes consistency stick.
IGT · 30 Apr 20264 min
Read MoreInfrastructure
Observability Before Scale
You cannot debug what you did not instrument. Start earlier than feels reasonable.
IGT · 21 Apr 20264 min
Read MoreData
The Case for Boring Databases
Postgres will outlast your framework, your ORM and possibly your company.
IGT · 12 Apr 20264 min
Read MoreWeb
Accessibility Is Performance Work
Semantic markup makes sites faster, cheaper to maintain and legally safer.
IGT · 03 Apr 20264 min
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence
Multi-Model AI Architectures
Routing between models by cost, latency and capability.
IGT · 25 Mar 20264 min
Read MoreCompliance
POPIA and the Architecture of Consent
Privacy regulation as an engineering constraint, not a legal afterthought.
IGT · 16 Mar 20264 min
Read MoreMobile
Progressive Web Apps in Low-Bandwidth Markets
Offline-first is not a nice-to-have where data costs matter.
IGT · 07 Mar 20264 min
Read MoreArchitecture
From Monolith to Modular Monolith
The pragmatic middle path most teams should have taken first.
IGT · 26 Feb 20264 min
Read MoreData
Machine Learning Without a Data Team
What small organisations can realistically achieve, and what they cannot.
IGT · 17 Feb 20264 min
Read MorePractice
The Craft of Technical Writing
Documentation is the interface your engineers ship to each other.
IGT · 08 Feb 20264 min
Read MorePractice
Measuring Developer Experience
Cycle time, cognitive load and the metrics that actually move delivery.
IGT · 30 Jan 20264 min
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