Architecture / Modernization / Reliability

Architecture notes from systems that needed modernization, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

I work across modernization initiatives, platform systems, operational tooling, and cloud delivery with a focus on reliability and maintainability.

Featured Case Studies

Writeups covering constraints, tradeoffs, and outcomes from real systems work.

Evolving / 2026

abhish3kk.in — A Low-Maintenance Engineering Publishing Platform

Three iterations, each with the same failure pattern: the setup was easy, the maintenance won. The fourth version strips the infrastructure to almost nothing — MDX files in git, Zod schema validation at build time, Azure Static Web Apps for hosting. No VPS, no CMS, no ops overhead.

Shipped / 2026

Angular Migration Across Shared Microfrontends

How we migrated a tightly-coupled microfrontend platform from Angular 13 to 18—with ag-Grid 29 to 32 in tow—while preserving rollback safety and coordinating sign-off across multiple downstream teams.

Engineering Notes

Short technical essays on platform decisions, maintainability, and operational habits.

Field note

Simple Systems Age Better

How small interfaces, boring deployment paths, and explicit content models reduce maintenance pressure over time.

Frontend platform

Static First, Dynamic When Proven

A practical bias for static generation, progressive enhancement, and fewer moving parts in delivery infrastructure.

Labs

Small experiments and proofs for future case-study components and architecture documentation.

Proof

Architecture Diagram Rendering

A lightweight path for embedding diagrams in long-form engineering case studies without turning the site into an app.

Experiment

MDX Content Contracts

Typed frontmatter and portable components for publishing systems notes with predictable structure.