Category: Software Development

Choosing Stripe or GoCardless is the easy part. The webhooks, state machine and dunning logic underneath decide whether your billing…

Webhooks look like the modern default, but they are not always the right one. A practical guide to choosing an…

A practical framework for founders and CTOs deciding which technical debt is worth fixing now, which to work around, and…

How to choose between native, Flutter/React Native and a PWA for a new mobile app, based on device access and…

A practical framework for choosing between PostgreSQL and MongoDB for a new product, based on data shape, query patterns and…

Why most small teams should default to a well-structured monolith, and the concrete signals that actually justify splitting a component…

How to replace a legacy system incrementally: strangler fig, splitting by domain, dual writes with reconciliation, rollback criteria, and the…

A decision framework for picking an API style: client count, over-fetching, caching, nested query cost, versioning, and the real price…

Shared schema, schema-per-tenant, or database-per-tenant: how to choose multi-tenant SaaS architecture, and why the decision is hard to reverse later.

Mesh messaging without infrastructure is real, but bounded. An honest look at range, hop counts, battery cost, conflict resolution and…