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How to Write an AI Agent Specification That Developers Can Actually Build
Most AI agent specifications fail because they describe what the agent should say instead of what it should do. A practical guide to writing specs that cover tool access, decision boundaries, error handling, and success criteria that engineers can implement.
SaaS Architecture Decisions That Determine Whether You Scale or Rewrite
Monolith, microservices, or serverless is the wrong first question. The architecture decisions that actually determine whether your SaaS scales or needs a rewrite: multi-tenancy model, data isolation, deployment strategy, and where to draw service boundaries.
The First 90 Days With an Offshore Development Team: What Actually Happens
The first 90 days with an offshore development team determine whether the engagement succeeds or fails. Week-by-week breakdown of what happens, what goes wrong, and what separates teams that deliver from teams that disappear.
5 Signs Your Enterprise AI Project Is a Demo, Not Production Software
Most enterprise AI projects never leave the demo stage. Five specific signals that your AI project is stuck in proof-of-concept territory, and what production AI systems look like instead.
What Happens When You Outgrow Shopify Plus (Real Migration Stories)
Shopify Plus works until it does not. Real patterns from ecommerce companies that hit the ceiling: catalog complexity, B2B pricing rules, multi-warehouse logic, and what the migration to custom actually looks like.
How We Built a Custom ERP for a Mid-Market Manufacturer
A detailed account of building a custom ERP system for a mid-market manufacturer: the procurement, costing, and compliance modules that SAP and Oracle could not deliver at the right scale and cost.
Custom ERP Implementation: Why 70% of ERP Projects Fail and How to Avoid It
Around 70% of ERP implementations fail to meet their original objectives, according to repeated industry surveys from Panorama Consulting and Gartner. The failures share a pattern: companies treat ERP as a software installation project instead of a business process redesign. The software gets deployed, but the processes it was supposed to replace keep running on spreadsheets, emails, and workarounds because nobody mapped the actual workflow before choosing the system.
Read postFleet Management Software Development: Build vs Buy for Operations Teams
Off-the-shelf fleet management software handles GPS tracking, basic maintenance scheduling, and driver logs. It stops working when your operations need custom dispatch logic, multi-stop route optimization tied to customer SLAs, or integration with warehouse and billing systems the vendor never anticipated. This post covers when commercial fleet software is enough and when building custom is the right call.
Read postCursor IDE in Production: What the Tutorials Don't Show You
Cursor speeds up routine coding by 30-50%. It does not replace the developer. After 6 months of using Cursor on production codebases, here is what actually works, what breaks, and why the YouTube tutorials showing entire apps built in 10 minutes are misleading about what production development looks like.
Read postFDA 21 CFR Part 11 Software Requirements: What Your Development Team Needs to Know
21 CFR Part 11 defines the FDA's requirements for electronic records and electronic signatures in regulated industries. Software that manages manufacturing records, quality data, or batch documentation must meet specific technical requirements for audit trails, access controls, and signature validation — or the records it produces are not legally valid.
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