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What we learned building the systems

Written by the engineers who did the work, about problems we actually hit. No trend pieces, and no claim we could not defend in a review.

Public sector

· 7 min read

What building for a government department taught us about building for everyone else

Public-sector delivery imposes a discipline private work usually lets you skip, and it made our private-sector work better.

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Applied AI

· 8 min read

Where AI earns its keep in production, and where it does not

A field report on the parts of applied AI that pay for themselves, the parts that do not, and why the boring half of the work comes first.

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Architecture

· 8 min read

Multi-tenancy is a decision you make in the first commit

A consultancy wanted one platform it could stand up for each of its own clients, and that turned tenant isolation from a feature into the shape of the first table.

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Field software

· 8 min read

Offline-first is a schema decision, not a service worker

What we learned building field software for the network and the phone your users actually have, where the hard part was never the cache.

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Legacy systems

· 7 min read

The spreadsheet is the specification

What we learned replacing spreadsheets that had quietly become the operating system of an entire business.

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Delivery

· 8 min read

The handover is the deliverable

A system only its vendor can maintain is a system you are renting, and here is how we try not to build those.

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Legacy migration

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The hard part of the strangler fig is deciding what stays the system of record

Replacing a state tourism corporation's Java and Oracle platform taught us that the pattern's real difficulty is not routing traffic. It is deciding what remains authoritative, and fronting a reporting schema you can never safely rewrite.

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Supply chain

· 7 min read

A quantity-on-hand column is a lie you tell yourself

In regulated distribution the real unit of stock is the batch, not the product, and almost every hard question about inventory follows from getting that one thing right.

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Data modelling

· 6 min read

A distribution business is a hierarchy pretending to be a spreadsheet

How we modelled a sales hierarchy so a field officer and a national head can open the same screen and each see a number that is correct.

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Provenance

· 7 min read

We put procurement records on a blockchain. Here is what that actually bought.

A tamper-evident ledger protects a record after it is written, not the moment a person at a weighbridge types the wrong number in.

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Send us the problem, not a specification. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people for it, and if we aren't, we'll say so.

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