Custom Software Development
Most people who commission software have no direct way to check what they actually received. You can open the app, click through the screens, and see that it does roughly what it was supposed to do. What you cannot see is how it was put together underneath, whether anyone other than the original team could work on it, or what happens the first time it comes under real load. The people best placed to answer those questions are usually the same people who built it, which becomes awkward the moment…
The sentence that stayed with me I asked a client once why he chose us over an agency twice our size. He told me something I still think about today: "You answered in four hours. The other agency needed four meetings just to answer anything at all." That sentence stuck with me the way a good story sticks with you, the kind you replay in your head weeks later because it captures something true about how the world actually works. The customer service line we all know too well Think ab…
The symptom A content platform, a directory-style site with thousands of dynamically filtered listing pages, was showing serious performance problems in a routine site audit. A full crawl of roughly 6,000 pages, combined with PageSpeed Insights (PSI) API data, turned up two things that looked unrelated at first glance: - Server response times were bad, and occasionally catastrophic. Median time-to-first-byte (TTFB) sat around 0.7 seconds, with over 1,500 pages taking longer than a s…
Building internal tools often starts with frustration. For our team, it began with two recurring problems: the opaque permissions of our project management system and the sluggish interface that made even small tasks feel like a chore. We needed a tool that could combine project management and operational reporting. Something that allowed us to track work, understand priorities, and maintain context without fighting the tool itself. At first, I tried to bend existing platforms to our will. Ji…
Introduction Astro is a modern static site generator that allows you to build fast, modern websites using a component-based architecture. More details about Astro at https://astro.build Go templates are a powerful tool for creating dynamic content and reusable components in your Go applications. More details about Go templates at https://pkg.go.dev/text/template At the point of writing this article, Astro does not support Golang as a [SSR adapter](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/server-…
Software developers are very important to the tech industry because they design, code, and keep software systems running for businesses and organizations. Here are some interesting facts about software developers that highlight the importance of their role and the impact they have on our daily lives. 1. High Demand The demand for software developers is projected to grow by 22% from 2019 to 2029, which is much faster than the average for all occupations. This high demand shows how important …
Check out the first part of our collection of the most eye-opening software development facts. 1. Reading computer code does not engage the areas of the brain that understand language. According to this research, “a distributed network called the multiple demand network” is activated, which is similarly activated for more difficult cognitive tasks like mathematics or crossword puzzles. While reading computer code activates the mu…
Have you ever wondered what are the defining traits of a web app? Of course, you have! No matter if you mean to build a web app for your business or are simply looking at one from a user’s perspective, there are elements that can help you tell good from bad. Sometimes you’re more interested in the user experience (UX), while on other occasions you think that the user interface (UI) is what makes the app good. Truth be told, in most cases, the lasting impression is most often caused by a multitud…
