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From Prismic to Payload: inside our CMS migration

What started as a plan to move away from Prismic quickly grew into something bigger. We built our own CMS, untangled years of pain points, and learned how to migrate hundreds of domains without losing momentum....

By Vibhor Chaturvedi

Engineering

Inline Control Flow: Powerful, Dangerous, and Hungry for Locks

A subtle Kotlin inline quirk let an early return bypass Redis lock cleanup, leaving keys stuck in memory. This is the story of how one misplaced return hijacked an entire cleanup flow and the simple fix that made it bulletproof....

By Shashank Kumar

Engineering

Eevee-lution: building Headout's in-house design system

One design system, five Pokémon-inspired packages, and a lot of lessons. Here’s how we built it to scale, drive adoption, and stay fun to work with....

By Rajat Verma

Engineering

Oops, payment failed? How we designed a calm path to completion

We gave our payment retry flow a friendly facelift so if a payment hiccups, you don’t freak out—you just hit retry and sail right through to booking....

By Kumar Siddharth

Design Engineering

Designing direction: How we standardised maps across experiences

Maps are undeniably cool, but we hit a roadblock when we realized they all looked different from each other, lacking a unified style. In this blog, we dive into how we tackled the challenge of bringing consistency and standards to our map designs....

By Shreya Kundu

Design