Cutting our cloud bill 38% without touching a single feature
How right-sizing, spot instances and a smarter autoscaler took one client's monthly AWS spend from €11k to €6.8k.
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From 4.1s to 0.9s: a real headless-commerce performance teardown
The exact bottlenecks we found migrating a 120k-SKU catalogue, and the order we fixed them in.
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Why we test before we ship — and how the suite pays for itself
A pragmatic look at the test pyramid we actually run on client projects, and what we deliberately skip.
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Integrating legacy 1C with a modern WMS without a single downtime window
Event-driven sync, idempotent webhooks and a shadow-write strategy that let us cut over with zero data loss.
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Offline-first done right: lessons from a fleet driver app
How we kept 340 drivers productive on patchy rural connectivity with a conflict-free local sync layer.
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The security checklist we run before every production release
OWASP coverage, dependency hygiene, secrets management and the automated gates that block a risky deploy.
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Adding a RAG layer to a support product — what actually moved the needle
Retrieval quality beats model size. A field report on the chunking, reranking and eval loop that worked.
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Why our average engineer stays four years
Autonomy, a real learning budget and honest feedback. The retention practices behind a sub-8% attrition rate.
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Fixed-scope milestones: how we keep estimates honest
The estimation ritual that lets clients commit one milestone at a time and still hit deadlines.
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