# Blog — Emanuele Del Monte

- 2026-10-11 [Ten records is easy, ten thousand is engineering](https://www.emanueledelmonte.it/en/blog/server-side-tables): Server-side pagination, sorting and filters for PrimeNG tables, with one TablePaginationState class and the bridge between Signals and RxJS.
- 2026-10-11 [Signals in a real app: the ApexFlow auth module](https://www.emanueledelmonte.it/en/blog/signals-in-production): How the authentication state of my thesis project moved to Angular Signals, what that removed from the code, and where RxJS still belongs.
- 2026-10-11 [Why Spring Boot when I already knew TypeScript?](https://www.emanueledelmonte.it/en/blog/spring-boot-or-nestjs): A senior backend friend asked why my thesis paired Angular with Java instead of NestJS. What drove the choice, what it cost, and what I think now.