Engineering deep dives and architectural teardowns from the team building Softwaiz's products.
The first post proved RedwoodSDK could run on celld. This one deploys it for real — a storage-backend correctness bug, a Docker gotcha with a subtle root cause, and a Durable Object counter running in production, off Cloudflare.
RedwoodSDK targets Cloudflare Workers exclusively. We tried running one of its apps on celld — a self-hosted reimplementation of the same primitives — to find out whether that's a framework limit or just a default.
The coordination problem AlloResto's live order board had on Postgres, and how one Durable Object per restaurant location fixed it.
How to drop a self-hosted clip, a YouTube/Vimeo embed, or an audio player into a story using the new VideoEmbed and AudioPlayer components.
The operational tradeoffs that pushed us toward an open-source content layer instead of buying one off the shelf.
How we structured sync and conflict resolution for restaurant operations software that has to work offline first.