GM caves, CarPlay won't be cut from gas-powered vehicles

Added a BFF layer before reaching for GraphQL. What happened next?

TL;DR: One table page was making 1 + 1 + N network calls and pulling every bill into the browser. A thin server layer that speaks "one screen at a time" fixed it.

• React app made three network calls per page, causing N+1 problem
• Introduced BFF (Backend For Frontend) to reduce requests to one per screen
• BFF handled permission checks, caching, server-side computation, and data filtering

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MVC, MVP, MVVM, MVVM-C, VIPER: one pattern wearing five outfits

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for your business-critical systems.

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What is Web Security? A Simple Guide for Developers

Imagine this familiar scenario: You just finished building your full-stack application. You built a sleek frontend in React , developed a fast REST API in Node.js & Express , connected it to MongoDB…

• Web security protects web apps, data, and users from dishonest user behavior
• Authentication verifies user identity by comparing entered credentials with stored hashes

2h ago ·dev.to

An Update on Wayback Machine Access

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★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple

The keynote, the products, and a new era.

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