Caching, payloads, and other front-end dark arts with Faris Aziz
July 16th, 2026
31 mins 7 secs
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About this Episode
Faris Aziz joins PodRocket to unpack the front-end "dark arts" behind building resilient dashboards under API rate limits and bloated payloads. He walks through front-end caching strategies, why a backend for frontend pattern using Next.js API routes as a proxy solved a 13-second load time, and how TanStack Query resilience patterns hold up differently at fintech scale versus Smallpdf's tens of millions of users. They also dig into defining a retryable error to avoid runaway infrastructure costs.
Links
Website: https://www.faziz-dev.com/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/farisaziz.com
Github: https://github.com/farisaziz12
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farisaziz12
X: https://x.com/farisaziz12
Resources
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions: https://www.faziz-dev.com/talks/caching-payloads-and-other-dark-arts-optimizing-ux-in-suboptimal-conditions
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