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#Architecture

What we learned building the last thing — architecture, delivery, and the decisions we'd make differently.

Engineering

Postgres or MySQL in 2026? An honest answer for Indian startups

Either database will take you to ₹100 crore in revenue. So the decision is not about performance — it is about...

Design

Six weeks after handoff, the CSS had 23 shades of grey and none of them matched the Figma. The fix was not mor...

Cloud & DevOps

A $9,420/month AWS bill, reduced to $5,560 in six weeks. NAT Gateway charges, an idle RDS instance, 1.9 TB of...

Business of Software

A fixed price is not a cheaper price — it is a price with a 20-35% risk premium and a change-request tax. A de...

AI & Data

The doc chatbot gets 12% adoption and hallucinates on the questions that matter. Meanwhile a boring invoice-ex...

Engineering

We shipped eleven App Router projects before we stopped fighting React Server Components and started designing...

Product

ONDC is a protocol, not a marketplace, and every call is fire-and-forget. This is the architecture, the Ed2551...

Engineering

Version one had a retry queue and lost 4.7% of delivery proofs. Version two made the phone the source of truth...

Business of Software

The licence fee is the number everyone negotiates and the smallest number in the project. Here is the full lin...

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