Hello! Happy February.
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We sent out our first newsletter in Feb 2020, and have been following a half-yearly cadence ever since. The pandemic too seems to have latched on to the same cadence and is causing waves of havoc between each edition. Thankfully the last wave was a mild one, and it appears that the world is slowing moving on.
The last six months have been reasonably smooth sailing at work. We’ve been keeping busy, building some new sites, supporting our clients and also getting better at working remotely. Along the way, there have been some joyful events like our teammate Divya tying the knot, and also some downers like bidding adieu to our colleague Archit. Here is a brief compilation of the highlights since our last letter to you:
- 🗣️ In August, Prateek gave a talk titled “Micro-caching in Nginx for High Performance” at Bangalore Site Speed. Check this talk out if you’re keen to know how we make our server-rendered websites blazing fast.
- 🗣️ The following month Prateek spoke at the CSS loading and Critical CSS conference. This time he dived into the frontend side of performance in his talk “Critical CSS for CMS-based, Server-rendered Websites”.
- 🐣 Over the next couple of months, two projects went live — both executed in collaboration with Cracker & Rush who lead the design while we tackled the architecture and the technology.
- First up was Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences — an academic institution in Bangalore. Being one of our largest websites, this one had kept us busy all of 2020. Its backend architecture powers 18 micro-sites (one for each faculty/department) from a single Craft CMS instance.
- The next one was Vahura — a full-service legal, tax, governance and compliance specialist search and consulting firm located in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
- ⛰️ In November we did our first in-person workshop in nearly 20 months. We’d been itching to take a break from Miro boards and Zoom calls for a long time. We couldn’t have asked for a better break than visiting a remote corner of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh with our friends at Tiffinbox to brainstorm an exciting project.
- 🏖️ In December, Prateek and Souvik took a flight to Sri Lanka to turn away from usual work. They spent a week reflecting on our first 10 years and bracing up for the next 10. Inshallah!
- 🎁 Also, what’s a holiday season without a gift? This year our entire team got an Everyday Backpack Zip. If you know anyone at Peak Design, please give them a shout out on our behalf for creating such a thoughtfully designed bag.
- 👩💻 Earlier this month we grew back to being a team of 5. Meet Anita Chouhan our newest team member who’s jumped on board as a Web Developer.
- 🎂 Last but not least, it’s our birthday edition! We turned 11 today. 🥳
If you’re keen to learn more about what we’ve been up to, you might want to check out our detailed year-in-review post covering 2020 and 2021.
And We’re Still Hiring
We continue to look for a mid-to-senior web developer. We’d like the candidate to be able to lead project development. This is a remote position and the candidate may be located anywhere in India or the rest of the world (we want at least a 4-hour time overlap). We’d be grateful if you could spread the word. And even better if you can connect us to someone who shares our passion for the web (we’ve got a handsome referral fee for a successful hire).
After a long time, we are experiencing some semblance of normalcy. We’re plotting to get our team together and are really excited about this prospect. What’s keeping you excited? We’re eager to know how things are at your end.
Leaving you with some fun snaps of our travels, gifts, collaborators and the team.
Sending you some good vibes,
– From all of us at Miranj
Miranj is Anita, Divya, Paul, Prateek, and Souvik.