The Aukode Engineering Blog.
Practical writing from the team — performance tactics, AI patterns and automation playbooks we use every week.
Optimization
How we cut LCP by 73% on a 4-year-old React app
A breakdown of the exact audits, refactors and edge tricks we used to take a slow legacy app to a 1.1s LCP — without a rewrite.
8 min · ReadAI Trends
RAG is overrated until you fix retrieval
Most failing RAG systems aren't a model problem. We share the retrieval patterns that actually moved evals in production.
6 min · ReadAutomation
AppScript patterns we use to replace $40k of SaaS
When Sheets is the right database. Three AppScript patterns for invoicing, alerting and reporting.
5 min · ReadEngineering
The 'transparent agency' tech stack
How we expose dashboards, commits and budgets to every client — and why it makes us ship faster, not slower.
7 min · ReadOptimization
Stop shipping fonts the wrong way
Subset, preload, swap. A 3-minute checklist that's worth ~200ms on most marketing sites.
4 min · ReadAI Trends
Agents in production: what actually works in 2026
A field report from six agent deployments — what users actually used, what we deprecated, and what surprised us.
9 min · Read