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# Frontend architecture

Rendering strategies, micro-frontends, design systems, and performance budgets.

- ["Design systems are a platform: treat them like one"](/notes/design-systems-are-a-platform-treat-them-like-one) · Note · Most design systems die the same way: a burst of initial energy produces a component library, teams adopt it unevenly, the library drifts from the product, contributions stall, and…
- ["Micro-frontends: the narrow conditions where they pay off"](/notes/micro-frontends-the-narrow-conditions-where-they-pay-off) · Note · Micro frontends promise microservices' organizational benefits for the UI: independent teams deploying independently. In practice, most adoptions buy the complexity of distributed…
- ["SSR, ISR, and edge rendering: choosing without the hype"](/notes/ssr-isr-and-edge-rendering-choosing-without-the-hype) · Note · Every few years the frontend world rediscovers server rendering and declares client side rendering dead, then rediscovers its costs and declares SSR dead. The reality is boring and…
- ["Web performance budgets: make speed a release gate"](/notes/web-performance-budgets-make-speed-a-release-gate) · Note · Every web team agrees performance matters and almost none treat it as a requirement. Features ship, bundles grow, images accumulate, third party scripts multiply, and performance…

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