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Engineering

Platform engineering after product-market fit: when an internal platform pays off

Why delivery slows down as a product team grows, what an internal developer platform contains, which numbers show whether it works, and how to build one in small steps without overbuilding.

Ilya Ismatov8 min read

  • AI engineering

    AI coding agents in a software team: where they help and where people decide

    Ilya Ismatov8 min read

  • Product

    MVP, prototype or proof of concept: which one to build first

    Ilya Ismatov6 min read

Platforms

Multi-tenant SaaS architecture: how to keep each customer's data apart

Shared schema, schema per tenant or database per tenant. How each isolation model works, where it leaks, and why tenancy has to reach auth, caches, jobs and backups as well as the database.

Ilya Ismatov6 min read

  • Engineering

    Dedicated team, staff augmentation or managed delivery

    Ilya Ismatov5 min read

  • Rescue

    Migrating a monolith without a meltdown

    Ilya Ismatov6 min read

  • Product

    How to vet a software development partner

    Ilya Ismatov6 min read

Engineering

Choosing a tech stack for compliance-heavy SaaS

What regulation actually asks of your architecture, and how to choose hosting, services and tools so an audit becomes a routine task instead of a rebuild.

Ilya Ismatov5 min read