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Notes from the workshop

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

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18 Aug 2026

How to evaluate a nearshore development team before you sign

A checklist you can actually run: continuity, ownership, response latency, how estimates behave under change, and the two-week paid slice that tells you more than any reference call.

NearshoreOutsourcingDeliveryScope

Process · 8 min

17 Aug 2026

Migrating a client off a legacy database without downtime

A build note on moving a live booking system between databases while it kept taking bookings, and the dual-write period that made it boring.

Case studyEngineeringDelivery

Case notes · 7 min

17 Aug 2026

What nearshore lean actually costs, and where the money goes

The hourly rate is the least interesting number in your quote. Rework, coordination overhead and handover risk decide what the software really costs — here is how to model it.

NearshoreLeanBudgetOutsourcing

Industry · 8 min

14 Aug 2026

Pairing with a model versus pairing with a person

The two activities look similar and produce different code, for reasons worth being explicit about rather than discovering by accident.

AIEngineeringProcess

AI · 6 min

13 Aug 2026

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