Content is structured data
Local MDX collections validate metadata and relationships. Drafts stay out of production routes, search, and sitemaps.
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Systems Field Guide
Understand the trade-off.
Overview
Educational engineering content, diagrams, and searchable guides.
Key capabilities
- Read mental models, practical use cases, common questions, and engineering constraints.
- Explore the first complete guide comparing PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Search published content through a build-time full-text index.
Under the hood
Technical decisions
Static by design
Astro emits pages and Pagefind builds search locally. Custom CSS and browser APIs avoid a frontend framework runtime.
Current limitations
The published collection is still small. Spanish translations are not yet authored, and search requires a production build.