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Wexron Journal
Apr 2026
The Wexron Blog

Notes from
the workshop.

Engineering write-ups, product notes, and the occasional war story from the team building AutoCom, Wexron Hosting, and whatever's next.

In this issue
Articles published 7
Topics covered 21
Contributing authors 5
Reading time ~45 min

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We replaced standups with a daily write-up. Here's what broke.
Article
#culture#async#remote

We replaced standups with a daily write-up. Here's what broke.

Three months ago we killed our daily standup. Everyone now writes a three-line update in a shared doc by 10 AM. It worked — but not in the w…

Albin Varghese
Albin Varghese
March 12, 2026
4 min
The anatomy of a 3-second order-to-ship pipeline
Tutorial
#autocom#performance#postgres

The anatomy of a 3-second order-to-ship pipeline

When a customer hits checkout, AutoCom has a label printed and a WhatsApp on the way in under four seconds. Most of that time is spent waiti…

Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas
February 27, 2026
4 min
On-prem AI for Indian D2C: why sovereignty is a feature, not a tax
Article
#ai#on-prem#autocom

On-prem AI for Indian D2C: why sovereignty is a feature, not a tax

Most AI infrastructure for Indian e-commerce runs on someone else's GPUs in someone else's region. For a growing slice of our customers, tha…

Ajay Krishna
Ajay Krishna
February 9, 2026
5 min
Running 200+ production workloads from a Calicut office
Article
#hosting#devops#wexron-hosting

Running 200+ production workloads from a Calicut office

Wexron Hosting runs just over 200 production workloads for clients across four continents. The ops team is three people. We sleep through mo…

Harshita Raj
Harshita Raj
January 22, 2026
5 min
Astro, htmx, and the case for boring tech
Tutorial
#astro#htmx#frontend

Astro, htmx, and the case for boring tech

wexron.in is an Astro site. Our client admin dashboards are htmx over Laravel. Neither is the trendy choice. Both turned out to be the right…

Mayssa Al-Hassan
Mayssa Al-Hassan
January 4, 2026
6 min
Debugging a ghost: the three-week Postgres mystery
Article
#postgres#debugging#war-story

Debugging a ghost: the three-week Postgres mystery

A customer's dashboard was slow. Not always — only on Tuesday afternoons. Not everything — only one specific query. Not a lot — just enough …

Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas
December 18, 2025
5 min
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