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Honest walkthroughs of the systems we've shipped — architecture, cost, the almost-failures, and what we'd do differently next time.
A single-use token in a Spring Session + Redis setup is only idempotent if you understand how the session is actually loaded per request. Here's the race condition we hit under concurrency, every attempt that didn't fix it, and the bounded in-memory cache that did.
by Muhammad Omar · Co-Founder & CEO
Most 'move to microservices' projects fail because they solve the wrong problem. For organisations enhancing an older monolith, a modular monolith is almost always the better next step. Here's the decision framework we use, and the hidden costs microservices advocates don't mention.
by Muhammad Omar · Co-Founder & CEO
A production walkthrough of the LLM-backed booking agent we built for Tyre Express — how it ingests requests, checks technician availability, auto-assigns jobs, and the two design decisions that saved us from a very expensive month.
by Muhammad Omar · Co-Founder & CEO
Most restaurants don't need an App Store presence — they need a URL you can send by text. Here's the decision framework we used for Philliez and why the answer was a mobile-first Progressive Web App.
by Muhammad Omar · Co-Founder & CEO
