content-strategy

Why Redirect Management is Critical for Developer Portals

Dec 18, 2025 - 7 min read

Joaquin Romo

Redirects are one of those infrastructure pieces you don’t think about until you need them. I’ve worked with them in two different contexts: a large-scale developer portal using Netlify with complex wildcard patterns and catch-all rules, and now this personal portfolio site on Vercel where I just implemented my first redirect after renaming a directory.

What struck me is how different platforms handle the same fundamental problem—keeping URLs stable when content moves—but with vastly different syntax and approaches. Whether you’re managing hundreds of versioned documentation pages or just reorganizing a small site, the principles remain the same.

How I'm Using MDX Frontmatter to Scale devportals.tech

Sep 24, 2025 - 4 min read

Joaquin Romo

Building devportals.tech has been an exercise in practicing what I preach about documentation engineering. One of the most impactful decisions I made early was leveraging MDX frontmatter not just for basic metadata, but as the foundation for scalable content workflows. Here’s how it’s working in practice.

Starting Simple, Scaling Smart

When I first set up this Astro Starlight site, I could have just used basic Markdown. But knowing I wanted to build something that demonstrates professional documentation practices, I started with structured frontmatter from day one:

---
title: "Content Branching Strategy for Documentation Teams"
description: "How to manage documentation releases, staging, and quality control using Git workflows"
date: 2025-09-23
authors:
  - name: Joaquin Romo
tags:
  - git-workflow
  - content-management
  - documentation-strategy
  - staging
---

Simple, but it’s already paying dividends.