Insights
Notes on how we design and build platforms — the decisions, the trade-offs, and the things we'd tell a client before they ask.
3 October 2026
Designing forms people actually finish
The most expensive form field is the one that makes someone stop and think "why do they need this?" — every field beyond the essentials is a place a real…
3 October 2026
The real cost of a fixed hourly AWS bill
A lot of small platforms get built on infrastructure priced for traffic they don't have yet — an always-on database instance and a fleet of servers billed by…
3 October 2026
Why we still build a modular monolith first
Microservices solve a scaling problem most businesses don't have yet, and create a coordination problem almost every business feels immediately. We start…