Dave Kurian - DEV Community

Dave Kurian

Sep 27

Buy the Arcade kit when the product is a games store

#arcade #expo #reactnative

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 27

Re-measure one fixed task before you trust a harness savings claim

#agents #cursor #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 27

Pin a short skill allowlist instead of shopping the registry

#agents #vercel #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 26

Delete one tenant's files without scanning a shared Blob store

#vercel #backend #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 25

Write the outbox row in the same Postgres transaction as the business row

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 25

An owned API stores idempotency keys in Postgres and replays the first response

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 25

When to cut traffic to a warm standby instead of a rolling replace

#architecture #backend #agents

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 25

otf-kit vs Shadcn Studio: a decision checklist before you buy

#webdev #react #saas #reactnative

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 24

Cursor Automations last mile: Security Review plus Rollouts, not hope-CI

#cursor #agents #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 24

Wire TanStack AI agents to OAuth-protected MCP via Vercel Connect

#vercel #agents #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 24

Queue backpressure on an owned backend: refuse the burst before the pool melts

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 24

Circuit breakers on an owned backend: fail fast when the AI vendor fails

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Park failed jobs in a DLQ with reason, snapshot, and replay — not silent drop

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Fail health, drain in-flight requests, then exit — not kill -9 mid-request

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Rotate production secrets with dual-key overlap, not an edit to .env

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Rate-limit your owned API at the edge and in the app, not only in memory

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Drives for Vercel Sandbox: persist the workspace, not the run

#aitools #agents #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 23

Pin GPT-6 Sol and Luna in your agent config, not your chat window

#aitools #agents #architecture

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

GPT-Live 1 on AI Gateway: own delegation-created and the billing hop

#aitools #agents #vercel

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

Python Workers GA: port FastAPI or Hyperdrive without to_js glue

#aitools #agents #backend

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

MiMo V2.6 on AI Gateway: pick Pro vs Flash vs UltraSpeed for coding agents

#aitools #agents #vercel

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

Worker Previews isolate Durable Objects so CI agents never share prod

#aitools #agents #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

OpenRouter Batch for owned repo jobs: when to keep sync vs half-price async

#aitools #agents #backend

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

System One and Jev: typed calibrated decisions for builders, not chat

#aitools #agents #architecture

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

Grok 4.7 for builders: same $2/$6 as 4.6, pin the id you call

#aitools #agents #cursor

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

Claude Opus 5.5 is live: pin the model id, then check the bill

#agents #architecture #aitools

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

PII scrub at log egress: deny-list fields before agents read production logs

#architecture #backend #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 22

Honest status pages after sandbox exit: component status, timeline, and incident updates

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 21

Rolling deploys on an owned backend: health checks, drain, and rollback

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 21

Postgres connection pooling after sandbox exit so concurrent AI traffic cannot melt the DB

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 20

Timed database restore drills into an isolated target prove RTO and RPO

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 20

Audit trail events for SaaS ops: append-only who-did-what you can query

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 20

API timeouts and retries when your app calls AI backends you own

#architecture #backend #agents

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 20

Make product docs citation-ready with Sources, schema, and answer-first pages

#aitools #architecture #agents

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 20

Structured production logs with correlation IDs agents can triage

#architecture #backend #aitools

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

Booking kit: sell session packages as owned prepaid rows, not ghost one-off appointments

#kits #architecture #templates

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

Landing templates: rebrand every section from one site.ts, not a ghost regenerate

#kits #templates #architecture

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

SaaS kit: keep Issues board as owned five-column Kanban, not a ghost board

#kits #templates #architecture

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

Fitness kit: finish every live workout as one owned row, not a ghost timer

#kits #templates #reactnative

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

SaaS kit: Stripe Customer Portal for self-serve plan changes and cancels

#kits #backend #templates

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 19

Booking kit: stop double-booking with range exclusions and live slots

#kits #backend #templates

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Marketplace kit: buyer hire flow, seller workspace, and Stripe checkout you own

#kits #templates #backend

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Better Auth on Expo: SecureStore sessions, cookiePrefix match, getCookie APIs

#reactnative #backend #crossplatform

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Everything Bundle vs one $99 kit: when the $149 pack pays for itself

#kits #templates #aitools

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Free SDK vs paid kit: when buying actually pays for itself at checkout

#kits #architecture #templates

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Keep unsigned users off product screens with one Expo Router root gate

#reactnative #architecture #crossplatform

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Gemini Arena labels are not API pins: eval before you swap models

#aitools #agents #kits

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 18

Harbor on Vercel Sandbox: parallel Terminal-Bench without your laptop

#agents #vercel #aitools

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Install Expo Skills so Cursor and Claude Code follow official Expo patterns

#agents #reactnative #templates

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Tailwind UI to Tailwind Plus: run the license and paste gate before your next block

#designsystem #kits #architecture

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

NextUI to HeroUI: run the rename and package gate before product work

#designsystem #architecture #kits

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Paywall conversion for first paid users starts with one promise and one gate

#kits #architecture #templates

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Expo SDK 58 beta: test iOS 27 scenes and agent CLI before leaving 57

#reactnative #agents #architecture

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Claude Opus 5.2 routing rumors: what builders should do before Anthropic confirms

#ai #productivity #opensource #coding

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Mantine full suite vs assembling a thinner headless stack for web SaaS

#architecture #designsystem #kits

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

Claude Opus 5.2 routing rumors: what builders should do before Anthropic confirms

#aitools #agents #kits

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 17

React Native Paper owns Material components; you still own the product kit

#reactnative #mobile #architecture #ai

6 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 16

GitHub Copilot joins AI SDK HarnessAgent: swap runtimes without rewriting your agent UI

#aitools #agents #vercel

5 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 16

Gemini 3.8 Live on AI Gateway: ship realtime voice with visual grounding

#aitools #vercel #announcement

7 min read

Dave Kurian

Sep 16

RNUI as org design system vs a thinner custom layer

#designsystem #reactnative #architecture

6 min read