Custom Software Development
Imagine you're asked to automate loan approvals. The policy fits in one paragraph: A loan is approved if credit score is 700 or higher, age is between 21 and 65, and income is at least €10,000. Scores from 650 to 699 go to manual review. With an LLM API at hand, the first design almost writes itself: send the policy and the applicant's data to the model and ask for a verdict. It works in the demo, and it takes an afternoon to build. Then real traffic arrives. Every application becomes a mod…
Private means no route, not just a closed door When a client's security requirements say the database may not be reachable from the internet, the interesting work isn't securing the database, it's reaching it. We were building a serverless application: a Next.js front end rendered on AWS Amplify, with its data in a Postgres database on RDS. The requirement was that the database have no public endpoint at all. Those two facts don't obviously fit together, because the part of our stack that ne…
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 …
Software developers build the tools almost everyone uses every day, yet most people know very little about the people behind the code. Here are 12 interesting facts about software developers: who they are, how they work, and a few surprises from the history of the job. 1. There are about 47 million developers in the world SlashData estimates there were [just over 47 million developers worldwide](https://www.slashdata.co/post/global-developer-population-trends-2025-how-many-developers-are-th…
