Category: Software Development

Push notifications look like a tick-box on a spec sheet. Delivery guarantees, opt-in design and vendor choice behind them are…

A practical way to choose between WebSockets, Server-Sent Events and polling for live features, based on who needs to push…

Network retries can silently double-charge a customer or double-book a slot. How idempotency keys work, and the five mistakes that…

How to choose between last-write-wins, field merging and CRDTs when an app has to keep data in sync across a…

How to decide between PostgreSQL’s built-in full-text search and a dedicated engine like Elasticsearch, based on what your product actually…

SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or just a database table: how a small engineering team should choose async infrastructure without overbuilding.

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…