12 May 2026
Craft
What a decade of maintenance taught us about "done"
Most of the software we've written, we've also had to live with. Ten years in, here's how that changed the way we build in the first place.
15 Feb 2026
Architecture
The strangler-fig migration that saved FinCore
How Perpact replaced a fifteen-year-old banking core one component at a time, without a single big-bang cutover.
18 Nov 2025
AI & ML
Running RAG in production without the hype
Retrieval-augmented generation is genuinely useful and genuinely easy to get wrong. What we've learned shipping it to real users.
04 Mar 2025
Security
GDPR is not a feature you add at the end
Data protection decisions ripple through your whole architecture. Leaving them to the last sprint is how projects get expensive.
22 Sep 2024
How We Work
Why we quote fixed prices, and eat the overruns
Fixed pricing is riskier for us and calmer for clients. After eight years of
it, we still think the trade is worth making.
07 Feb 2024
Web
Core Web Vitals: the boring work that moves the needle
Performance wins rarely come from one clever trick. They come from a dozen
unglamorous fixes nobody wants to do.
14 Jun 2023
AI & ML
Bringing an AI practice in-house, carefully
We waited two years and a good few client projects before we called it a proper
team. Here's why we didn't rush it.
03 Oct 2022
Cloud
Kubernetes is probably overkill for you
We run it for the clients who need it and talk most of the others out of it. A
field guide to when the complexity actually pays off.
29 Jul 2021
Security
What ISO 27001 certification actually changed for us
Certification is often dismissed as paperwork. In practice it rewired how we
handle client data, and won us work we'd have lost otherwise.
16 Apr 2020
Team
Shipping software while the office was shut
The week Ireland locked down, we had four projects mid-flight. What going fully
remote overnight taught us about how we work.
21 Aug 2019
Design
Designing for clinicians, not for Dribbble
The MedTrack app taught us that a beautiful screen a nurse can't use on a busy
ward is a failed screen.
09 May 2018
Engineering
The strangler-fig migration that saved FinCore
How we replaced a fifteen-year-old banking core one component at a time,
without a single big-bang cutover.
27 Nov 2017
Team
Our first year: four people, one client, no idea
A candid look back at year one — the desk at Dogpatch, the client who took a
chance on us, and the mistakes we're glad we made early.
Writing here since 2017. Older pieces are kept as they were published.