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Notes from building systems that have to keep running.
Written for two readers: the business owner deciding whether to build, and the engineer checking whether we know what we're doing.
Building Software for Business
ERP or spreadsheets: when a trading business actually needs a system
Four signs your spreadsheets have become the bottleneck, and two situations where an ERP would be a waste of money.
17 Jul 2026 · 9 min read
AWS & DevOps
Cutting AWS costs 40% without touching your architecture
The itemised audit we run before recommending any change — and why right-sizing beats reserved instances as a first move.
9 Jul 2026 · 12 min read
AWS & DevOps
Django + ECS Fargate: a production deployment pattern that doesn’t fall over
Task definitions, migrations on deploy, zero-downtime rollouts, and the health-check configuration everyone gets wrong once.
28 Jun 2026 · 16 min read
Android Development
What we learned scaling an Android app to 400,000 installs
Payload size, offline caching, push fan-out and crash triage on cheap devices — from an app that actually got there.
19 Jun 2026 · 13 min read
Django & Python
Integrating bKash, Nagad and SSLCommerz in Django: the parts the docs don’t tell you
Idempotency, callback timeouts, settlement reconciliation and the failure states that only show up in production.
11 Jun 2026 · 18 min read
AI & Automation
AI agents that actually save time — and the ones that just look impressive
How to pick a process worth automating, how to baseline it, and when a rule-based script beats an agent.
2 Jun 2026 · 10 min read
Building Software for Business
Ten questions to ask a software vendor before you sign
Including the four that most vendors cannot answer well — and our own answers, in writing.
21 May 2026 · 8 min read
Two posts a month. No news, no announcements.
Only things we learned by shipping something.
