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Insights, tutorials and news from the Nordic Byte engineering team.
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Open Banking in the UK: the decision that shapes everything else
Connecting to UK bank accounts means an early regulatory choice: get FCA-authorised yourself or use a regulated aggregator. Here’s how to decide.
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Build vs buy: when video conferencing infrastructure is worth building yourself
A practical framework for choosing between embedding a video SDK and building your own WebRTC stack, and what each route actually commits you to.
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UK GDPR for SaaS teams: the engineering checklist
A practical, engineering-led guide to building UK GDPR compliance into a SaaS product: deletion, audit logs, subprocessors, transfers and automated DSARs.
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Avoiding AI vendor lock-in: the engineering decisions that actually matter
How to structure AI features so switching model providers later is a configuration change, not a rewrite. Practical engineering choices, not hype.
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Build or buy: HR and rota software for small teams
Off-the-shelf HR platforms cover most small teams well. Here’s how to tell when your leave, shift or absence rules justify building instead.
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AI video monitoring at work: what UK law expects before you switch it on
A practical look at the UK GDPR obligations behind AI-powered workplace video monitoring, and the engineering decisions that keep a deployment defensible.
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IoT fleet alerting: designing thresholds nobody switches off
Most IoT alerting problems are not sensor problems but design ones. A practical look at building fleet alert thresholds people trust and act on.
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Cloud migration for UK businesses: where the money actually goes
Egress charges, idle environments, oversized instances and orphaned storage — the cost traps of cloud migration, and how to estimate before you commit.
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Offline-first messaging: what Bluetooth and WiFi Direct can and cannot do
Mesh messaging without infrastructure is real, but bounded. An honest look at range, hop counts, battery cost, conflict resolution and keys without a server.