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What our engineers learned building and maintaining client products since 2016.

  • React Native

    Building apps with React Native in 2026

    How we build production React Native apps today, from Expo and the New Architecture to a Laravel API, resilient networking, testing and store releases.

    Rainer Rodriguez

    Oct 20, 2026 · 8 min read

  • Laravel

    Database design decisions that save you later

    The schema decisions we make early on every Laravel project, with the migrations for constraints, types, keys, tenancy, history and live changes.

    Rainer Rodriguez

    Oct 20, 2026 · 8 min read

  • Consulting

    How to choose a technology stack

    Choose the stack your team can build and maintain for years, that fits what the product does, and that you can hire for. How we decide, with examples.

    Carlos Saldaña

    Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read

  • Product development

    How we make slow web apps fast

    To speed up a website, measure real users first, then fix the server response, the database, the main image and the JavaScript, in that order.

    Rainer Rodriguez

    Oct 20, 2026 · 8 min read

  • Nearshore

    Nearshore vs. offshore: What changes for your team

    Nearshore teams work in or near your time zone. Offshore teams are far away, often half a day ahead. What that changes for cost, speed and how you work.

    Carlos Saldaña

    Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read

  • Product development

    Quality assurance in a small product team

    Quality assurance is the set of habits that keep defects out of a release, from the ticket to production. Here is how a small team runs it.

    Carlos Saldaña

    Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read

  • Staff augmentation

    Staff augmentation vs. outsourcing

    With staff augmentation you add engineers to your team and direct them. With outsourcing a vendor delivers an outcome. How to pick, from a firm that does both.

    Carlos Saldaña

    Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min read

  • Consulting

    What we check in a web app security audit

    A website security audit reviews code, configuration, dependencies and infrastructure for weaknesses. This is the list we work through, in order.

    Rainer Rodriguez

    Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read

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