Engineering notes, release write-ups and guides for building with the template.https://stratastack.devenhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/authorization-without-a-cachehttps://stratastack.dev/blog/authorization-without-a-cacheSession cookie caches are great for showing a name in the header and dangerous for deciding access. How the admin area, its actions and the account export bypass the cache.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTauthadminsecurityempeeryalhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/dependabot-cooldown-and-pnpm-12https://stratastack.dev/blog/dependabot-cooldown-and-pnpm-12A Dependabot job that failed on every run turned out to be a supply-chain safeguard colliding with how pnpm 10 re-resolves a lockfile. Here is the diagnosis and the fix.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdependabotpnpmciempeeryalhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/store-first-notify-secondhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/store-first-notify-secondHow the contact form handles bots, floods and email outages: a honeypot, two throttles in one atomic upsert, and a message that is saved before anyone is notified.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcontactactionssecurityempeeryalhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/introducing-stratahttps://stratastack.dev/blog/introducing-strataWhy we built Strata, a complete Astro 7 starter, what ships in the box, and how this site is generated from the template it describes.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementtemplateastroempeeryalhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/why-astro-7https://stratastack.dev/blog/why-astro-7Astro 7 shipped a Rust compiler, Vite 8, a native Markdown pipeline and stable route caching. Here is what changed, what broke, and why it is the right default for content-heavy sites in 2026.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTastroarchitectureempeeryalhttps://stratastack.dev/blog/deploy-anywherehttps://stratastack.dev/blog/deploy-anywhereHow a single astro.config.ts builds for Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify and a Node server, and what each platform needs from you.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdeploymentvercelcloudflarenetlifynodeempeeryal