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Microsoft starts disabling Exchange Web Services on 1 October 2026 and finishes on 1 April 2027. The decision point is earlier: the end of August 2026 allow list deadline.
Manu Shukla 
Twenty days from Shopify's non-Plus Thank you and Order status deadline: what the Help Center says, working custom pixel code, the subdomain requirement that silently breaks consent, and why event counts drop.
Manu Shukla 
Three separate breaking changes hit self-hosted Supabase inside seven weeks: the default API gateway swaps from Kong to Envoy, CREATE EXTENSION stops honouring pinned versions, and the logs.all Management API endpoint
Manu Shukla 
The fix for a padding-oracle bug in Apache Tomcat's cluster encryption moved super.messageReceived() outside its try block. On the affected versions, a decrypt failure now forwards attacker bytes to a bare
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft retires the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP and POX/HTTP APIs on 31 August 2026. Your API key, quotas and method names survive. The URL path and the response envelope do not. Here is the cutover.
Manu Shukla 
CERSAI's CKYCRR 2.0 turns India's 103 crore KYC records into a real-time, API-first registry with Aadhaar masking and OTP consent. Here is what banks, NBFCs and fintechs actually have to build, in what order, and where
Manu Shukla 
RBI's authentication Directions took effect on 1 April 2026 and card issuers must validate cross-border CNP transactions by 1 October 2026. What the three principles require in code, which exemptions survive, and how
Manu Shukla 
GoDaddy, Cloudflare and AWS now all register domains over an API, and coding agents can call them. The three purchase contracts differ in ways that decide whether a retry costs you nothing or charges you twice.
Manu Shukla 
India's 23 July 2026 Press Note 3 carves an export-only exception into the FDI ban on inventory-based e-commerce. The policy is short. The engineering behind a compliant export-inventory platform is not.
Manu Shukla 
Chrome 158 stops running XSLT on 17 November 2026, and the origin trial and enterprise policy escape hatches expire on 17 August 2027. Here is how to find every XSLT dependency you own and choose a migration path
Manu Shukla 
Ship-to GSTIN went mandatory on 1 August 2026, Shopify B2B is no longer Plus-only, and Tally still has no REST API. Five decisions that set what an Indian dealer portal costs to build.
Manu Shukla 
SEBI moved audit and remediation from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, and named auditor appointment too. What the circulars require, and the WCAG criteria that fail on trading platforms.
Manu Shukla 
Next.js 16.2's stable Adapter API and OpenNext let you run Next.js on AWS, Cloudflare, or Netlify instead of Vercel. The options, the caching that breaks at scale, and the 2026 cost math.
Manu Shukla 
On 14 July 2026 Slack shipped new majors across eight Node SDK packages. Five only need Node 20. Three rewrote the HTTP transport, removed the agent option, and changed how errors surface.
Manu Shukla 
A senior engineer's 2026 comparison of Neon and Supabase: scale-to-zero economics, instant branching, built-in auth, real pricing in dollars, and which serverless Postgres fits your SaaS backend.
Manu Shukla 
Next.js 16.3 brings Turbopack's persistent file-system cache to next build and adds an experimental Rust React Compiler. Here is how to wire both into CI, the real numbers from Vercel, and where they break.
Manu Shukla 
Apple open-sourced the Temporal Swift SDK on 10 November 2025, and 1.1.0 shipped on 21 May 2026. This guide explains durable execution, the workflow-activity-worker model, determinism rules, and shows a working Swift
Manu Shukla 
Node.js still runs most of the world's backends, but Deno 2.9 and Bun 1.3.14 have removed the compatibility excuse. A senior engineer's decision framework, with 2026 benchmarks, npm compatibility, security defaults
Manu Shukla 
The protocol your agent's tools speak has a cost the usual API debate ignores: the tokens each schema burns inside the model's context. A 2026 decision guide across REST, GraphQL and gRPC, with token math, latency
Manu Shukla 
Cloudflare bought Astro in January 2026 and Astro 6 shipped in March. For content-heavy sites the choice against Next.js 16 comes down to JavaScript weight, hosting cost, and how much app logic you actually run.
Manu Shukla 
Azure's first Rust client capability for Shared Access Signatures landed in July 2026 as azure_storage_sas 0.1.0. It builds user-delegation SAS signed by Entra ID, with no account keys in your code. Here is how it
Manu Shukla 
Next.js 16.3 Preview adds Instant Navigations: instant SPA-like page shells on a server-driven app, with one reusable shell prefetched per route instead of one per link. Here is how Cache Components and Partial
Manu Shukla 
Visa Payment Passkey is live in India and the RBI's authentication directions took effect on 1 April 2026. A build guide for adding FIDO2 passkeys to iOS and Android apps, with the SMS OTP decision made plain.
Manu Shukla 
Cloudflare Workers bills $5/month plus requests and CPU with no egress; Vercel Pro is $20 per seat plus metered compute and transfer. A 2026 cost breakdown with worked monthly examples.
Manu Shukla 