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Building a fintech product: security and reliability requirements
How fintech development differs: double-entry money accounting, an immutable ledger, PCI DSS and regulatory requirements, resilience and change control.
- Security
- FinTech
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Answers to the questions clients bring us: stack, timelines, budget, SEO. Short and to the point.
- All articles
- MVP 5
- Laravel 3
- Node.js 2
- Project estimation 7
- Nuxt 1
- SEO 5
- Working with vendors 6
- Team 5
- Architecture 7
- Backend 11
- Development process 13
- Product 7
- Security 6
- Frontend 7
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- AI 7
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- SaaS 2
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- DevOps 4
- Automation 2
- EdTech 2
- Technical debt 1
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Which automated tests your product needs and what they cost
Unit, integration and end-to-end tests: what to cover first, what critical-flow tests look like, what they cost and how to build them into your process.
- QA and testing
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Go for the backend: when it is worth it and when it is overkill
Go excels at high-load APIs, real-time features and data processing, but is often overkill for admin-heavy CRUD products. We compare it with PHP, Python and Node.js.
- Backend
- Performance
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Docker for development and production: what it gives your project
Docker makes development, test and production environments identical. We cover Dockerfile and Compose, production image rules and where to run containers.
- DevOps
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How to switch development vendors and hand over a project without losses
How to prepare for a vendor switch, what the outgoing team must hand over, why an overlap period matters and how the new team can take over safely.
- Working with vendors
- Support
4 min read
Flutter, React Native or native: how to choose your app technology
Cross-platform is cheaper and faster for most business apps; native suits deep device work. We compare Flutter, React Native, Swift and Kotlin.
- React
- Mobile
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AI coding assistants: what they really speed up and what they do not
Where AI assistants really speed up development, what research says, the risks they bring and how to build them into your process without losing quality.
- Development process
- AI
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Django or FastAPI: which Python framework to choose for a web project
Django is batteries-included for products with admin and dashboards; FastAPI is a light async framework for APIs and AI backends. We compare them with code examples.
- Backend
- Python
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Code review: how to make it speed development up, not slow it down
Why code review slows teams down and how to fix it: small changes, same-day responses, automation for style, a reviewer checklist and a description template.
- Development process
- QA and testing
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Technical audit of a software product: when you need one and what it covers
When to commission a technical audit, what gets checked in code, architecture and infrastructure, what the client receives and how to act on the results.
- Architecture
- Support
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How to accept online payments: payment facilitator, merchant account or your own gateway
A payment facilitator, a merchant account or several providers: we compare the options and cover the integration flow, payment methods, receipts and a pre-launch checklist.
- FinTech
- E-commerce
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Kafka or RabbitMQ: which message broker to choose
RabbitMQ delivers tasks and commands; Kafka stores an event stream for many consumers. We compare their design and use cases and ask whether you need a broker at all.
- Architecture
- Backend