Insights

Engineering

Laravel queues in production: four failure modes nobody warns you about

Double-charged customers, jobs that vanish, workers that quietly leak memory, and a payment webhook stuck behi...

11 Jun 2026 · 7 min

Business of Software

What an ERP migration actually costs — a line-item breakdown

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

21 May 2026 · 7 min

Design

Designing for Bharat: shipping to tier-2 and tier-3 users

Your users are not on a MacBook on office wifi. They are on a 3 GB Android, at 400 kbps, in bright sunlight, w...

06 May 2026 · 7 min

Cloud & DevOps

We cut a client's AWS bill 41% without touching a feature

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

16 Apr 2026 · 7 min

AI & Data

RAG is not a product: where LLM features actually earn their keep

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

30 Mar 2026 · 8 min

Engineering

Offline-first isn't a feature, it's an architecture — a driver app post-mortem

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

10 Mar 2026 · 8 min

Product

The ONDC integration guide we wish existed

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

19 Feb 2026 · 8 min

Engineering

Core Web Vitals for ecommerce: the three fixes that moved the needle

Not "compress your images". The real LCP fix was a discovery-chain problem, the real INP fix was a search box...

28 Jan 2026 · 7 min

Business of Software

Fixed-price vs dedicated team: how to actually choose

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...

08 Jan 2026 · 8 min