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Insights, tutorials and news from the Nordic Byte engineering team.
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Cuándo una pyme necesita software a medida y cuándo le sobra con un SaaS
Casi siempre la respuesta es el SaaS. Cuatro situaciones en las que no deberías encargar un desarrollo, cuatro en las que sí, y la opción…
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AWS, Azure or Google Cloud: choosing a cloud provider for a UK small business
AWS, Azure or Google Cloud: a practical decision framework for UK small businesses, covering data residency, egress costs, lock-in and AI tooling.
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Outgrowing your software: the signs show up in the business, not the code
A system that’s been outgrown doesn’t crash. It carries on working while the company quietly builds a second, informal system around it. How to spot…
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Vector databases: when your AI feature actually needs one
A vector database is not the default answer for every AI feature. Here is how to work out whether semantic search earns its operational cost,…
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Qué gana de verdad una pyme con un software a medida (y qué no gana)
Cuatro beneficios que se cuentan en horas y en errores, no en adjetivos. Y las tres cosas que un desarrollo a medida no os va…
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Data retention: what to keep, what to delete, and what it actually costs
A practical look at data retention as an engineering problem: database design, backups, logs and analytics, not just a compliance document.
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Time-series database or plain PostgreSQL: where should IoT telemetry actually land?
How to decide whether IoT telemetry belongs in plain PostgreSQL, a partitioned Postgres, or a dedicated time-series database.
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Stripe or GoCardless: the billing engineering decisions that matter more than the fees
Choosing Stripe or GoCardless is the easy part. The webhooks, state machine and dunning logic underneath decide whether your billing actually holds up.
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Backup and disaster recovery: what to actually ask a software vendor
RPO, RTO, the 3-2-1 rule and restore testing: the concrete questions a UK business should ask before trusting a vendor with its data recovery.