The strangler fig pattern legacy software approach is the most reliable way we know to replace a system your business depends on without stopping the business to do it. Instead of switching everything over on one terrifying weekend, you grow a new system around the old one, move one piece of functionality at a time, […]
This zero downtime database migration guide is the checklist we wish every team had before their first scary deploy. If your application serves real users around the clock, you cannot simply take the database offline, run a migration, and hope the deploy finishes before anyone notices. This guide shows you how to change your schema […]
Event sourcing for business software explained in plain terms: instead of storing only the current state of a record, you store every meaningful thing that happened to it, in order, as an append-only log — and rebuild current state by replaying that log whenever you need it. If your business system ever has to answer […]
The MTD Technologies development process exists for one reason: so you always know what is happening with your project, what happens next, and what we need from you — before money changes hands, not after. This post walks through every stage, from the first call to launch and ongoing support, written the way we would […]
Every codebase that has survived real customers carries technical debt, and that is not a confession of failure. It is the normal result of shipping under deadlines, learning what customers actually want, and changing direction as a business grows. The problem is rarely that debt exists. The problem is that nobody owns it, nobody measures […]
Every SaaS product eventually faces the same uncomfortable moment: the API needs to change in a way that existing customers did not ask for. A field must be renamed, an endpoint restructured, or an old behaviour retired. Handled badly, that change breaks integrations and costs trust that took years to build. Handled well, customers barely […]
Most legacy migrations do not fail on cutover day. They fail months earlier, in the quiet decisions nobody wrote down: what counts as done, what happens if the new system misbehaves, and who is allowed to say stop. These legacy system migration plan steps are the sequence we use to keep those decisions explicit, so […]
Most database design mistakes in business software do not show up on launch day. They show up six months later, when a report counts the same revenue two different ways, when a simple delete takes minutes, or when a developer cannot explain what half the columns are for. By then, every fix is a migration, […]
Every software owner in 2026 is asking the same question: should we add AI features to our custom software by building them ourselves, buy an off-the-shelf solution, or skip AI entirely for now? It is a decision with real money behind it — and the wrong answer is expensive. A vendor API integration can ship […]
If you send three agencies the same half-formed idea, you will get three quotes that look like they belong to different projects — and in a sense they do, because each agency filled your blanks with different assumptions. The fix is not to haggle over the numbers. It is to write a software agency project […]