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Your Bundle Is Too Big: Splitting a UK SaaS Front-End by Route Without a Framework Rewrite
Performance

Your Bundle Is Too Big: Splitting a UK SaaS Front-End by Route Without a Framework Rewrite

You do not need to adopt a new meta-framework to get faster first loads. Here is the route-level splitting playbook we used on a small Bristol-built SaaS, including the loading states, the stale-chunk problem nobody warns you about, and the numbers we saw on Core Web Vitals afterwards.

Roll Your Own Feature Flags: A Two-Person Team's Case for Ditching the Flag SaaS
Infrastructure

Roll Your Own Feature Flags: A Two-Person Team's Case for Ditching the Flag SaaS

Per-seat flag platforms are lovely until the invoice arrives and you notice you are shipping user identifiers to a US processor to decide whether a button is blue. A practical, slightly opinionated look at building a small self-hosted flag service with proper kill switches and UK GDPR-friendly defaults.