How we de-risk a £500k platform rewrite: the incremental replacement playbook

Big bang rewrites fail. Here's the strand-by-strangler pattern we use to replace legacy systems without stopping the business, with real timelines and risk gates.

Build vs. buy: the AI gateway decision framework

Every team building with LLMs faces this choice. Here's the framework we use with clients: cost, control, compliance, and the hidden costs of each path.

Concurrency-safe booking and inventory workflows

Why optimistic UI and a naive SELECT-then-UPDATE will eventually double-book you, and the patterns that prevent it.

LLM integration patterns for business applications

Self-hosted vs. API-based models, where to put the human in the loop, and how to keep an LLM from becoming a single point of failure.

OCR pipelines for document-heavy industries

Turning passports, invoices, and travel forms into structured data, with confidence scoring and a sane review queue.

Event-driven vs. synchronous integration: when Kafka is worth it

Request-response is simple until it isn't. The trade-offs between synchronous REST and event-driven architectures, with real latency and operational numbers.