Balaji Saravanan https://balajisv.vercel.app Writing on frontend engineering, systems design, and AI Why Embedded Widgets Are Actually Distributed Systems https://balajisv.vercel.app/blog/why-embedded-widgets-are-actually-distributed-systems The hidden architecture behind Intercom-style support widgets, and why a floating chat button eventually becomes an authentication, deployment, and runtime isolation problem. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform Abstraction Layers: Keeping Product Code Independent of Where It Runs https://balajisv.vercel.app/blog/keeping-product-code-independent-of-where-it-runs Why multi-host applications eventually accumulate platform-specific logic throughout product code, and how capability-driven platform abstraction layers restore ownership boundaries between application behavior and runtime environments. Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Composition Is How Interfaces Escape Configuration Collapse https://balajisv.vercel.app/blog/composition-is-how-interfaces-escape-configuration-collapse Why configuration-driven component systems eventually collapse under layout pressure, and how composition changes structural ownership in scalable UI architectures. Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Designing Generative UI Systems https://balajisv.vercel.app/blog/generative-ui-systems Why AI interfaces are shifting from static component trees to runtime-generated interaction systems Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Designing Streaming Chat Systems for AI Applications https://balajisv.vercel.app/blog/designing-streaming-chat-systems Building real-time, streaming chat systems for AI workloads under real constraints Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT