Case studies, technical deep-dives and honest writing about building software and running IT for real businesses.
Same books, same data — completely different experience for every person in the business. How we built a custom layer on top of QuickBooks Desktop that changed daily life for a two-branch Cape Town retailer.
Read the case studyWe migrated our entire virtualisation stack from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE. Clusters, containers, backups — here is what we built and why we will never look back.
Read moreProduction runs on a whiteboard, deliveries over WhatsApp group chats. We built a connected operations system that changed how the whole business runs.
Read moreOne screen showing every server, every container, every metric — updated in real time. How we built our internal ops dashboard and what it taught us.
Read moreWe built a custom Raspberry Pi softphone terminal for a large contact centre. When COVID hit, every agent unplugged their station, put it in a bag, and went home. Thousands kept working.
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