Why Redirect Management is Critical for Developer Portals
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.