Cutting a Six-Hour Monthly Job to 15 Minutes
A monthly maintenance job that ran into the morning while users were already in the app, and the five dollar a month server that replaced the parts of Knack's infrastructure the platform had outgrown.
Cutting a 10-Second Load Time to 2, Without a Rewrite
A single-file front end had grown past the point anyone could safely change it. Here is how it was decomposed into 112 modules with role-scoped and page-level just-in-time loading, live, without a rewrite.