Insights
Engineering notes from the delivery floor
Architecture decisions, delivery lessons and the occasional post-mortem. Written by the people who did the work.
Why we still server-render most of what we build
A single-page application is a distribution of complexity, not a removal of it. Here is how we decide which side of the...
Estimates should ship with their assumptions
A number without its assumptions is not an estimate, it is a wish. What changes when you publish both.
The three queries behind most slow Laravel apps
Almost every performance engagement we take on starts in the same three places. None of them require a rewrite.
Retrieval beats fine-tuning more often than you would think
Most "we need a custom model" requirements turn out to be a search problem with a language model on top.
Threat modelling in an afternoon
A lightweight version of the exercise that catches the majority of what a full assessment would, in the time you actuall...
What a two-week increment should actually contain
If the demo is a slide, the increment did not happen. What we mean by something you can click through.