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ENGINEERING · DEC 15 · 8 MIN READ

The case for boring infrastructure.

We run Clikn on Postgres, Redis, and a handful of Node processes behind Cloudflare. No Kubernetes. No service mesh. No data lake. Here’s why the boring stack is the one that lets us sleep.

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ENGINEERING · DEC 12 · 6 MIN

Why we moved our edge to 21 regions.

A p50 of 48ms only matters if the p99 stays under 200. Here’s how we cut the tail.

DESIGN · NOV 28 · 4 MIN

A QR code is not a logo, but it's close.

Notes on dot shape, contrast, and the dark art of logo centering.

PRODUCT · NOV 14 · 3 MIN

We removed 17 settings. Nobody noticed.

The quiet violence of a good default.

COMPANY · OCT 30 · 2 MIN

Series A? No thanks, not yet.

Why we're staying seed-stage for one more year.