Most teams reach for microservices before they've outgrown a monolith. The result is distributed complexity with none of the benefits. Here's how to make the decision correctly.
Skipping the technical specification is one of the most expensive shortcuts in software development. Here's what a good spec looks like and why it pays for itself.
The build vs buy decision shapes your cost structure and competitive position for years. Here's a framework for making it well.
API-first design isn't just a development pattern. It's an architecture decision that determines how well your software integrates, scales, and evolves.
Technical debt isn't just a code quality problem. It's a compounding tax on every feature you build. Here's how to think about it.
The tech stack you choose shapes your hiring pool, your maintenance burden, and your ability to scale. Here's how to think through it.
Most technical documentation goes unread. The kind that gets used shares a few specific properties worth understanding.
Bad scoping is the leading cause of blown budgets and missed deadlines. Here's how to do it right before any work starts.
Teams reach for specialized databases before exhausting what PostgreSQL can do. It handles more than you think.
Most project briefs fail before the first line of code is written. Here's what a brief needs to actually work.
Serge Belov