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Cloud PlatformsStatic ArchitectureWeb ArchitectureSignal vs Noise

Cloudflare R2 vs S3 for Static Assets: The Egress Bill Is the Whole Argument

S3 is the default because it's been the default. For static assets served at scale, R2's zero-egress pricing rewrites the math — and the cases where S3 still wins are smaller than people think.

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WordpressStatic ArchitectureCloud PlatformsSignal vs Noise

The Business Case for Dumping WordPress: Static Sites and CDNs as a Line-Item Decision

Most arguments against WordPress are technical. The stronger case is financial — hosting costs, security incidents, page-speed revenue impact, and maintenance hours add up to a budget line that a static site on a CDN simply doesn't have.

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Developer Experience (DX)Static ArchitectureWeb Architecture

Code Highlighting at Build Time: Shiki vs Prism and the Death of Runtime Tokenizers

Shipping a tokenizer to the browser to color code blocks made sense in 2014. It doesn't now. Build-time highlighting is faster, cheaper, and produces better-looking output — and the tradeoffs are smaller than you think.

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