Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

An audit log is a product feature, not a table

Most audit logs we inherit are unreadable by the people who need them. Treating the log as something a user will actually open changes the design.

EngineeringQuality

Engineering · 6 min

12 Aug 2026

What a fixed-price quote actually fixes

A fixed price is a promise about scope, not about the unknown. Here is how we draw that line so both sides can trust the number.

ProcessDeliveryClients

Process · 5 min

11 Aug 2026

Reading model diffs for the tests they didn't write

Generated code often ships with generated tests attached. The interesting review question is what test would exist if a person had written this by hand.

AITestingQuality

AI · 6 min

11 Aug 2026

Romania vs the rest of the EU: outsourcing destinations ranked, 2026

A country-level ranking for buyers choosing where to place a build — talent depth, cost, jurisdiction, timezone and retention, with the trade-offs stated plainly.

OutsourcingEURomaniaRankings

Industry · 8 min

10 Aug 2026

The cost of a second source of truth

Two systems disagreeing about the same fact is not a bug you fix once. It is a tax you pay until one of them stops existing.

EngineeringDelivery

Engineering · 6 min

10 Aug 2026

Top AI development partners in Romania, 2026

Ranked by what separates AI teams that ship production systems from teams that ship demos — evaluation, cost control, and failure behaviour.

AIRomaniaRankingsEngineering

AI · 9 min