Insights
Notes from the work: what we’ve tried, what broke and what we’d do again. Written by the people who did it.
Insights
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The strangler fig pattern, without the folklore
Replacing a system slice by slice is the safest way to modernise. Here’s what the diagrams leave out.
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Where your cloud bill actually goes
What we found in 27 cloud cost reviews: the same five causes, and the order to fix them in.
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Fixed price or time and materials? An honest comparison
Fixed price feels safer. Sometimes it is. Here’s how we decide which to offer, and why we usually start with both.
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A week on the shop floor before a line of code
Why our designers work shifts in stores and depots before they design anything, and what it changes.
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