Blogs

What we write about

We publish when we have actually learned something worth passing on — which means fewer posts than a content calendar would produce, and no pieces written to rank for a phrase. Most of what ends up here comes out of client work: an architecture decision that turned out to be wrong, a migration that went better than expected, a way of running a team that survived contact with a deadline.

The recurring subjects are the ones we spend our days on. Engineering practice — how to modernise systems without stopping the business, where microservices earn their complexity, what scaling actually costs. Applied AI — retrieval, agentic workflows, evaluation, and the gap between a convincing demo and something you can put in front of customers. And the management side of shipping software: how small senior teams stay fast, how scope gets decided, and why most delivery problems turn out to be decision problems.

If you would rather talk it through than read about it, tell us what you are building — or have a look at the work these posts come out of.