When a monolith is the right answer
Microservices solve organisational problems more often than technical ones. A framework for deciding honestly.
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Notes from real engagements: what worked, what did not, and what we would do differently. Written by the people doing the work.
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The cloud bill nobody reads
Five recurring sources of waste we find in almost every cloud cost audit, and how to fix them for good.
Why your dashboards are not trusted
Trust is a data quality problem before it is a visualisation problem. Where to start rebuilding it.
Estimates that survive contact with reality
How we scope fixed-price work without padding every number or burning the margin.
Secrets management for small teams
A pragmatic baseline for teams without a dedicated security function.
Replacing a legacy system without a big bang
The strangler pattern in practice, including the parts that are genuinely hard.
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Cloud & cost
Architecture choices and the bills they produce twelve months later.
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Pipelines, quality, and making numbers people will actually act on.
Delivery & commercials
Estimating, scoping, and running projects that finish.
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