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Technical Debt: What to Fix Now and What to Leave
Not all technical debt is worth paying off. A way to decide which problems to fix, which to contain and which to ignore.
What to Ask Before Hiring a Software Development Partner
The questions that reveal how a development company really works: ownership, people, estimates, quality and what happens when you leave.
How to Scope a First Version of a Software Product
A first version should prove one thing with one group of users. How to cut a feature list down to that without cutting what matters.
PostgreSQL for Growing Applications: Indexes, Queries and Limits
Most database slowness in a growing application comes from a few known causes. How to find the slow queries and what usually fixes them.
Legacy System Modernization: Incremental Migration vs Full Rewrite
The riskiest thing you can do with a legacy system is rewrite it all at once. Here's a more reliable path, and when a full rewrite is actually justified.
Building Software That Can Scale Without a Full Rewrite
Most rewrites aren't caused by bad code. They're caused by decisions that were fine at one scale and became liabilities at the next.
Designing a Scalable Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture
The tenant isolation model you choose on day one shapes every scaling decision after it. Here's how to choose the right one.
Django vs FastAPI: Choosing the Right Backend for Your Product
Both are excellent Python frameworks solving different problems. The right choice depends on what your product actually needs, not which one is newer.
Designing Production-Ready APIs: Versioning, Auth, and Observability
The difference between an API that works in a demo and one your partners can build on for years comes down to a handful of decisions made early.
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