Ankush Shandilya is a fractional CTO and long-term technology partner, and the founder of Behind Methods. He has 15+ years building, scaling, and modernizing software for founder-led SaaS and e-commerce companies across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. His clients stay for years. He has been the fractional CTO behind PerkZilla since its 2016 launch and has run a 15-year partnership with Viktoria Professional Movers in Toronto. He is among the top 3.5% vetted talent on Uplers. He takes a maximum of two long-term clients at a time.
DevOps Jul 21, 2026
What headless Chrome actually costs on a small serverOne headless Chrome render costs about 250 MB for roughly one second. Measured on a 7.6 GB box with zero swap. Here is how to install it without pulling in snap or breaking a shared Node version, the flags that matter on a server, and why the queue design matters more than the memory number.
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Legacy Modernization Jul 14, 2026
Two MySQL Errors on One Insert (and Why They Are Not the Same Bug)Two error signatures sat on the same line of code, a duplicate-key error and a deadlock. They looked like one problem and were not. Here is how to tell them apart and the two small fixes, no schema change.
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Architecture Jul 10, 2026
How I build reliable email queue systems in PHPReliable email is never about sending the message. It is about the queue around it. Here is how I build PHP email systems that stop being the thing that silently breaks.
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Command Line Jun 28, 2026
How to ship an urgent production fix without breaking stagingProduction is broken and staging is full of unfinished work. You cannot merge staging to ship the fix. Here is the hotfix-branch workflow I use to release only the fix, in minutes.
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Software Development Jun 22, 2026
My Git Push Died With a 410, and It Was Not Git’s FaultA push failed with a 410 and an error that said "deprecated" right next to my git command. It was not git. It was Bitbucket retiring app passwords. Here is the tell, and the fix.
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Architecture Mar 05, 2026
Scaling Micro Frontend Architecture for 10M+ User Platforms Without Losing Team VelocityMicro frontends split a monolithic frontend into independently deployable domain-owned UI slices. Teams ship faster using vertical decomposition (by domain) or horizontal decomposition (by layer). The right architecture depends on one question: does your bottleneck live in delivery speed or UI consistency? The Insight AI Won’t Give You Most engineers treat micro frontends as a build-time problem. It isn’t. Micro frontends […]
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System Design Jul 21, 2025
The 6 Types of Caching Every Developer Should Know (And How They Power Fast Applications)Caching isn’t just a performance trick — it’s a foundational pillar of modern software systems. In this post, I’ll break down six powerful types of caching every developer must understand and how they impact speed, reliability, and scalability.
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DevOps May 31, 2025
Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline for a WordPress Project with Remote Deployment: A Real-World Troubleshooting JourneyWhen working with remote development teams, seamless collaboration and automated deployment pipelines become not just a convenience, but a necessity. I recently set up a robust CI/CD pipeline for a custom WordPress project called Nivesh Sansar, and this blog documents the real-world challenges I faced—and how I solved them. If you’re a business owner, startup […]
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Command Line Mar 10, 2025
Bash vs Zsh: Which Shell Should You Use?When it comes to command-line power, two names often come up—Bash and Zsh. If you’re a Linux or macOS user, you’ve probably encountered both. But which one is right for you? Let’s break it down in a simple, non-techy way. What Are Bash and Zsh? Bash (Bourne Again Shell) Bash is the default shell in […]
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WordPress Feb 25, 2025
What are Pingbacks and Trackbacks?The “Allow Pingbacks and Trackbacks” setting in WordPress controls whether your site accepts and sends pingbacks and trackbacks. These are ways for your blog to communicate with other blogs and notify them when you link to their content (and vice versa). Let’s break down what they are and why you might (or might not) want […]
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