Occasional, opinionated writing on engineering, products, and the way we like to work. Short pieces. Less talk, more signal.
Most teams should buy off-the-shelf and move on. Some should build something custom. We've watched both calls go wrong. Here's how we help clients work out which side of the line their problem sits on.
Saying yes to the wrong project hurts everyone. We explain how we decide what to take on.
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Tech choices made on day one show up in the bill two years later. Trade-offs to think through.
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A 200-person firm moved from seven tools to Ragenaizer. The interesting parts weren't technical.
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A field guide to the moment you should stop reaching for a new database — and when to.
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Why we never write a 60-page spec, and what we do instead.
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