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Why we start from your process, not our product
Off-the-shelf software asks a business to change shape. Here is what we do instead, and why the first release matters more than the roadmap.
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Vendor lock-in is a cost you pay later, at a worse time
Proprietary choices are often correct. The mistake is making them without pricing the exit.
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Designing systems for unreliable power
Software written on the assumption of continuous power fails in ways that are hard to reproduce and easy to blame on the wrong thing.
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Post-quantum cryptography: what to do now, and what can wait
The threat is real, the timeline is uncertain, and the sensible response is neither panic nor indifference.
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Observability is the ability to answer new questions
Monitoring tells you the things you predicted might break. Observability is whether you can diagnose the thing you did not predict, at two in the morning.
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Low-code: where it genuinely fits, and where it quietly costs you
Low-code platforms are excellent at the first eighty per cent and unforgiving about the last twenty. Knowing which problem you have is the whole decision.
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