esbuild 0.21 vs SWC 1.5 vs Babel 8: Transpiling TypeScript 5.6 Showdown TypeScript 5.6 introduces long-awaited features like stable decorators, const type parameters, and improved narrowing, but transpiling this code requires build tools that keep pace. We pit three popular transpilers against each other: esbuild 0.21, SWC 1.5, and the upcoming Babel 8, to see which delivers the best balance of
The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p