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Decision guides and technical deep-dives: the questions a serious team works through before it knows who to hire.
- June 13, 2026
Build vs buy: when does custom software actually earn its keep?
Buying off-the-shelf is the correct default for most software. A framework for the minority of cases where building is the cheaper decision over the life of the system — not the more exciting one.
- · build-vs-buy
- · architecture
- · decision
→ - June 10, 2026
When do you actually need real-time — and when does polling quietly win?
Real-time features are expensive to build and operate. A decision framework for knowing when WebSockets or WebRTC earn their cost — and when a polling endpoint is the senior choice.
- · real-time
- · architecture
- · webrtc
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