Web Applications
Custom PHP/MySQL apps, admin panels, customer portals, real-time dashboards — engineered for performance.
A two-person studio in Lahore, Pakistan shipping full-stack web platforms, performant front-ends, and infrastructure that scales. Built in-house. Built to last.
mangobaz@edge:~$ cat status.json
{
team: "2 humans + 1 cat",
founded: 2019,
location: "Lahore, PK",
status: "online",
coffee: "running low",
shipping: true,
uptime: "99.98%"
}
mangobaz@edge:~$ ls ./what-we-ship/
design/ code/ devops/ ai/
mangobaz@edge:~$ █
Mangobaz is an independent studio working on the open web since 2019. We pair with founders and product teams to ship interfaces and systems that feel deliberate — fast front-ends, well-modelled data, and infrastructure you can forget about. We don't subcontract. Every commit is written by a human on our team.
Custom PHP/MySQL apps, admin panels, customer portals, real-time dashboards — engineered for performance.
Pixel-perfect interfaces with HTML5, CSS3, modern JS, and Vue.js. Animations and micro-interactions that feel alive.
RESTful APIs, integrations, payment gateways, and async workers. Secure, documented, and versioned.
MySQL and MongoDB schemas, migrations, indexing, and query optimization for high-traffic workloads.
ASP.NET Core services and APIs for enterprise-grade reliability on the Microsoft stack.
CI/CD, server hardening, automated backups, monitoring, and zero-downtime releases.
In-depth technical guides, architectural breakdowns, and hands-on web development tutorials written by our engineering team.
A complete, production-tested guide to the Transactional Outbox Pattern in C# and .NET 8/9. Learn how to prevent ghost writes and lost events, implement atomic database-to-message-broker relays with EF Core and MassTransit, and design idempotent consumers.
Read article →A deep architectural breakdown of the Modular Monolith pattern. Learn how to enforce strict module boundaries, design in-memory domain events, isolate database schemas, and eliminate the microservice tax without devolving into a spaghetti codebase.
Read article →A comprehensive, production-grade guide to real-time communication protocols. Compare WebSockets, SSE, and HTTP Long-Polling with real-world latency benchmarks, architecture patterns, modern LLM streaming use cases, and full C# and JavaScript code implementations.
Read article →The libraries we depend on in production, the ones we dropped this year, and the ones we are watching. JavaScript, .NET, databases, CSS, and tools.
Read article →Lessons from 40 projects. Scope is everything, sprint length matters, design before code, yes is more dangerous than no, and nine other hard-won truths.
Read article →The opinionated toolchain for our two-person studio. ASP.NET Core, Vue, Vite, PostgreSQL, Tailwind, and GitHub — plus the supporting tools that make everything work.
Read article →Explore our comprehensive collection of 32 tutorials covering modern front-ends, API design, database performance, and clean code principles.
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