You know the system needs replacing. Everyone knows. But it keeps getting pushed to next quarter. Then the quarter after […]
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The 80% that shipped Monday morning
The weekend system is still running. Three years later. Got a call from a CEO I knew. End-of-month commission calculations […]
Frameworks are a “love-hate” relationship…
Your dev team spends more time updating frameworks than building features. And you can’t figure out why. I myself have […]
How I save broken projects (or decide it’s time to kill them)
It’s never easy and believe it or not – apart from technical knowledge it’s the communication skill that often plays […]
Basic web security checklist for 2025
This is a subjective list. It is not complete, and it is not trying to sell you anything. It comes […]
Can you prepare for Black Swan events?
By definition – you cannot. There is although something you can do to speed up the recovery – and that’s […]
It’s cheaper to test on production…
That’s of course, a false statement. Recent events around the big “Crowdstrike” crisis have demonstrated how cutting corners can occur even at […]
Why you should encrypt your laptop… now!
Are you a developer or an entrepreneur? What if I stole your laptop right now – how much data could […]
How and when to scale web applications?
It’s almost a classic: a sluggish webshop or online sales platform that breaks during seasonal peaks or when there is […]
How many servers and services do you have that nobody dares to touch?
If you cannot answer the title question, maybe it’s time to break the glass ceiling above your business that limits […]
