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I finally tried Nx. Here's what stuck.
For a few years I'd brushed past Nx and mentally filed it under 'monorepo tooling, maybe one day.' I sat with it for a weekend. Two things stuck: CI that scales with the change rather than the repo, and architecture that doesn't quietly rot through a thousand small imports.
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What 'clean architecture' actually costs you
Clean architecture is a real win in some codebases and a real cost in others. The costs are not theoretical and they're not optional. If you can name the specific thing the architecture is buying you, it's probably worth the price. If you can't, it isn't.
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Reading explain plans without panicking
MongoDB explain plans look intimidating because the field names sound like ceremonial Latin. They aren't, and they don't have to be. Three numbers and one stage name will tell you 80% of what you need to know about a slow query.
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