Engineering blog
Deep-dives, case studies, and lessons learned from shipping production systems across AI, fintech, healthcare, and more.
Synthetic Supermodels in Production: How AI is Transforming Luxury Fashion, Commercial Casting, and Brand IP
An architectural and strategic deep-dive into synthetic model casting: character facial consistency, 10-locale headless delivery, perpetual likeness licensing, and how luxury houses are eliminating physical production bottlenecks.
Building Custom MCP Servers for Enterprise AI: A Practical Guide
How Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers expose internal tools and data to LLM agents in production — architecture, authentication, security and the mistakes we've stopped making.
TypeScript Monorepos at Scale: Turborepo, pnpm and the Patterns That Actually Work
A field guide to structuring TypeScript monorepos for teams shipping multiple packages, apps and services — based on what we run in production across fintech, marketplace and SaaS clients.
Building Compliant Healthcare Software in Europe: MDR, GDPR and the Engineering Reality
A senior engineering team's guide to shipping healthcare platforms that satisfy EU MDR, GDPR, and national health-data regulations — without drowning in paperwork or sacrificing delivery speed.
React Server Components in Production: Six Months of Real-World Lessons
What we learned migrating a high-traffic e-commerce platform to the Next.js App Router with React Server Components, streaming, partial pre-rendering and Server Actions.
The Next.js Performance Audit We Run on Every Client Project
Our 30-point performance checklist for Next.js applications — covering Core Web Vitals, bundle size, server components, image optimization and the database queries nobody thinks to profile.
Fintech Compliance Checklist for 2026: PSD2, PCI-DSS 4.0, GDPR, KYC and AML
A practical engineering checklist for building compliant fintech products in 2026 — from PSD2 strong customer authentication and PCI-DSS 4.0 to GDPR data minimisation and Travel Rule for crypto.
Marketplace MVP Architecture: The Stack and Decisions That Get You to Launch
How we architect two-sided marketplace MVPs — from payment splits and trust systems to the database schema decisions that determine whether you can scale past launch.
Scaling PostgreSQL with pgvector for RAG: Index Strategy, Partitioning and HNSW Tuning
Index strategies, partitioning patterns, and HNSW tuning for retrieval-augmented generation systems serving millions of vectors at sub-100 ms p95 latency on commodity Postgres.
Docker in Production: The Practices That Survive Real Incidents
Battle-tested Docker practices for production workloads — multi-stage builds, security hardening, health checks, log management and the Compose-to-Kubernetes migration path.
Migrating to React Native's New Architecture: Fabric, TurboModules and the Bridgeless Future
A pragmatic playbook for adopting Fabric and TurboModules in existing apps — from preflight audits, codegen, native module migration, to gradual rollout in production.
MongoDB vs PostgreSQL in 2026: When to Use Which and Why We Default to Postgres
A practical comparison of MongoDB and PostgreSQL for production applications — covering data modelling, transactions, scaling, developer experience and the specific use cases where each database wins.
Design Systems as Product, Not Project: How to Stop Accumulating UI Debt
Why treating your design system as an internal product — with versioning, changelogs, a roadmap and a real owner — dramatically reduces UI debt and accelerates every feature team that consumes it.
Engineering Real Estate Platforms: Listings, Maps, Lead Routing and the Data Challenges Nobody Warns You About
A technical deep-dive into building real estate platforms — covering listing data pipelines, map integration, lead routing, IDX/MLS compliance and the performance patterns that make property search feel instant.
Migrating from Laravel to Next.js: A Practical Guide for Growing Teams
When and how to migrate a Laravel monolith to Next.js — covering the strangler-fig pattern, API extraction, authentication migration, database considerations and the cases where staying on Laravel is the right call.
Cutting Kubernetes Costs by 60% Without Sacrificing Reliability
A real case study in right-sizing nodes, pod-disruption budgets, spot instances, Karpenter-based autoscaling, and the FinOps practices that turned a $48k/month cluster into a $19k one.
Logistics Software Architecture: Real-Time Tracking, Route Optimisation and the Integration Layer That Makes or Breaks the System
How we architect logistics and supply-chain platforms — covering real-time vehicle tracking, route optimisation, warehouse management integration, and the event-driven patterns that keep everything in sync.
The State of Headless Commerce in 2026: Shopify Hydrogen vs. Medusa vs. Saleor vs. BigCommerce
A practical comparison of the four headless commerce backends we ship with most often — strengths, weaknesses, real total cost, and how to choose for your stage and scale.
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