· Cloud and DevOps
Cloud-Native Fintech - Mastering PCI-DSS Compliance
We’ve written elsewhere about how tokenization and hosted payment fields let most fintech applications avoid touching raw card data entirely, which handles the biggest share of…
Writing
How we build things - and why. Architecture decisions, what went wrong, and the reasoning behind the choices we make on client projects.
· Cloud and DevOps
We’ve written elsewhere about how tokenization and hosted payment fields let most fintech applications avoid touching raw card data entirely, which handles the biggest share of…
· Engineering Practice
The gap between a finished Figma design and working code is where a lot of design-engineering friction actually lives - not in disagreement about what should…
· Data and Databases
“Relational databases don’t scale” has been repeated so often it’s outlived the era when it was mostly true. Modern Postgres and MySQL, properly designed and indexed,…
· Architecture
Serverless functions were originally sold as ideal for simple, stateless operations - a request comes in, does one thing, returns a response, forgets everything. Real business…
· Engineering Practice
The “next billion internet users” framing gets used a lot in India-focused product conversations, and accessibility rarely comes up in the same breath - which is…
· Performance
Rust in the browser (via WebAssembly) and Rust on the server both get pitched with the same “faster than JavaScript” framing, and it obscures two genuinely…
· Performance
Bun’s benchmark numbers are genuinely impressive, and every time a new one circulates, we get a client asking whether they should migrate off Node. The honest…
· Engineering Practice
Every engineering leader has felt the same tension: the business needs a dozen small internal tools - an approval workflow, a data entry form, a simple…
· Architecture
Blockchain in enterprise logistics has a credibility problem, mostly earned - a lot of “blockchain for supply chain” pilots from a few years ago were solutions…
· Architecture
Sub-10ms latency is a real, specific technical claim, and the honest first question we ask any client chasing it is: what’s actually behind that number, and…
· Security
Microservices multiply the number of things that need securing - every service boundary is a potential attack surface, every service-to-service call needs its own authentication, and…
· Engineering Practice
Green computing gets framed as a corporate responsibility talking point, which undersells the actual engineering reality: the practices that reduce a system’s carbon footprint are, almost…
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