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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.

Apr 18, 2026·9 min read·Ribbsaeter Systems Engineering
Engineering

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.

Apr 22, 2026·8 min read
Healthcare

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.

Apr 20, 2026·10 min read
Frontend

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.

Apr 04, 2026·12 min read
Development

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.

Apr 15, 2026·9 min read
Fintech

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.

Mar 22, 2026·15 min read
Startups

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.

Apr 12, 2026·11 min read
Database

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.

Mar 09, 2026·11 min read
DevOps

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.

Apr 8, 2026·8 min read
Mobile

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.

Feb 24, 2026·10 min read
Engineering

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.

Apr 5, 2026·9 min read
Design

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.

Feb 11, 2026·8 min read
Real Estate

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.

Apr 1, 2026·10 min read
Engineering

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.

Mar 28, 2026·10 min read
DevOps

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.

Jan 29, 2026·13 min read
Logistics

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.

Mar 24, 2026·10 min read
E-commerce

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.

Jan 14, 2026·14 min read

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