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Chandima Galahitiyawa

Founder & Product Engineering Lead

Chandima Galahitiyawa writes about product strategy, software architecture, delivery systems, and growth execution for modern digital businesses.

Product StrategySoftware ArchitectureEngineering DeliveryGrowth SystemsOperational Scale

Articles by Chandima Galahitiyawa

2026-02-267 min read

PayPal Sri Lanka Availability Rumor: What Businesses Should Do Now

A practical, in-depth guide for Sri Lankan businesses preparing for possible PayPal availability in the coming weeks.

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2026-02-221 min read

Designing APIs for Long-Term Compatibility

Versioning, contract testing, and change management patterns for evolving systems.

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2026-02-211 min read

MVP Launch Playbook: 30-60-90 Day Plan

A staged execution model from scope lock to launch and post-release learning.

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2026-02-201 min read

How to Prioritize Product Features Without Slowing Delivery

A practical scoring model for balancing customer value, effort, and release confidence.

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2026-02-191 min read

Authentication and Authorization Guide

Token lifecycle, role scopes, and secure access patterns for external clients.

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2026-02-181 min read

What High-Performing Product Teams Measure Every Sprint

Key velocity, quality, and outcome metrics that reveal delivery health early.

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2026-02-171 min read

Production Readiness Checklist for Modern Web Apps

A deployment checklist covering security, performance, and observability essentials.

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2026-02-161 min read

Legacy Modernization Playbook for Critical Systems

How to de-risk refactoring while protecting operations and delivery cadence.

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2026-02-151 min read

Webhook Delivery and Retry Semantics

Payload contracts, retries, and idempotency guidance for reliable event processing.

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2026-02-141 min read

From Roadmap to Revenue: Building Outcome-Driven Backlogs

How to map feature work to business impact and reduce low-value execution.

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2026-02-121 min read

CI/CD Pipelines That Cut Release Risk by Half

Pipeline gates, rollback strategy, and quality controls for safer daily releases.

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2026-02-111 min read

Growth Handoff Playbook: Product to Marketing Alignment

How to move from feature release to adoption campaigns without friction.

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2026-02-101 min read

When to Rebuild vs Refactor: A Decision Framework for Leaders

A board-ready framework for evaluating modernization options with lower risk.

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2026-02-091 min read

Error Codes and Recovery Patterns

Standardized error handling and resilient client-side retry strategies.

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2026-02-081 min read

Improving Frontend Performance on Content-Heavy Pages

Techniques for image, script, and rendering optimization with measurable gains.

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2026-02-071 min read

Accessibility Remediation Playbook for Active Products

A phased model to improve accessibility while maintaining feature velocity.

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2026-02-061 min read

How to Run Faster Discovery Without Creating Rework

Discovery patterns that align product, engineering, and stakeholders before build.

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2026-02-051 min read

Rate Limits, Quotas, and Throughput Planning

Capacity-aware integration strategies for stable high-volume traffic.

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2026-02-041 min read

Observability Basics: Logs, Metrics, and Traces That Matter

How to set practical telemetry foundations before scale introduces blind spots.

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2026-02-031 min read

Incident Response Playbook for Lean Engineering Teams

Roles, communication flows, and recovery steps for faster outage resolution.

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2026-02-011 min read

API Versioning and Deprecation Policy

How versions are introduced, sunset schedules are communicated, and clients migrate.

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