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Traffic Is Expensive - Shorter JSON Keys Really Do Help

Traffic costs are a lot more expensive than most people think. Just shortening JSON key names cut our bandwidth by more than 20%.

When SSR Became the Bottleneck

Auto scaling was enabled, but the service still fell over. The real problem was the per-request cost of SSR.

Can Apple Game Be Solved Optimally?

Apple Game looks simple, but finding the optimal move sequence is a hard combinatorial search problem.

What Actually Affects Apple Game Scores?

Which board-level indicators actually predict Apple Game scores? We compared multiple measurable features.

Extracting Apple Game Boards with OCR

How we built an automated OCR pipeline to extract hundreds of Apple Game boards from screenshots.