The Acme Blog
Stories from the team building Acme
Engineering deep dives, design notes, and the product decisions behind the work we ship.
7 Min ReadEngineering
How we cut API latency by 60% with edge caching
Our monolith was fast enough, until it wasn't. We traced the bottleneck to cold database reads on every request and rearchitected the caching layer in three weeks.
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Lena Park
Jun 9, 2026
5 Min ReadSemantic tokens feel abstract until your brand color changes overnight.
9 Min ReadDrop-off at step two had nothing to do with the UI, it was a mental model gap.
6 Min ReadWe replaced our codegen pipeline with inferred types and never looked back.
4 Min ReadThree years of hybrid taught us where collaboration actually happens.
8 Min ReadPass WCAG without sacrificing the palette your brand team fought for.
5 Min ReadSmall framing changes on the pricing page moved the needle more than discounts.