TOOKLI Engineering
TOOKLI Engineering
Engineering team
Architecture notes and delivery lessons from the engineers building TOOKLI client platforms.
9 articles
- Web1 min read
Performance budgets that survive contact with a deadline
Every team agrees performance matters and then ships a 2MB bundle. A budget only works if it fails the build.
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- Engineering1 min read
Two-week increments, and what they actually require
Everyone claims to work in short cycles. Very few teams can deploy at the end of one. Here is what has to be true before an increment means anything.
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- Engineering2 min read
Why we write an architecture document before any code
A written architecture is the cheapest place to have an argument. Here is the six-section format we use, and the section that prevents the most rework.
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- Case studies1 min read
A field app that works where the network does not
Two hundred technicians were losing an hour a day to a web app that failed outside coverage. We rebuilt it offline-first, and let the operations team design the conflict rules.
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- Mobile2 min read
Offline-first is a data model decision, not a caching one
Bolting a cache onto an online-first mobile app produces conflicts you cannot resolve. Offline-first starts with identifiers and merge rules.
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- Case studies1 min read
Cutting reconciliation from three days to forty minutes
A payments processor was closing its books by hand every month. We replaced the spreadsheet chain with a modelled ledger and automated matching, and found two long-standing errors on the way.
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- Cloud1 min read
Cloud bills grow through inattention, not through malice
Nobody decides to spend 40% more on infrastructure. It accumulates from defaults nobody revisited. A practical review that takes an afternoon.
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- Business1 min read
Choosing a software partner when you have no technical team
How to evaluate an agency's proposal, what the price differences usually mean, and the contract terms that matter more than the rate.
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- Product2 min read
Scope is a decision, not a negotiation
Most product builds fail on sequencing rather than execution. How to cut a first release that is small, useful and honest about what it leaves out.
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