Insights

What we have learned on projects.

Practical notes from our projects, written by the managing director without marketing gloss and with specific recommendations you can use even without us.

Software development 10 min read

Online payment security in an online casino: six rules from practice

What HTTPS protects and what it does not, how to sign payment requests, stop replays, manage keys and keep an audit trail. Six rules and a design checklist.

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AI consulting 10 min read

AI in regulated industries: what is allowed, what applies when and where to start

The AI Act after the July 2026 amendments, GDPR, DORA and the supplier contract: what a bank or insurer should settle before its first AI pilot.

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SEO 10 min read

Technical SEO that pays off: seven things before writing content

Measurement, indexing, canonicalisation, discoverability, hreflang, Core Web Vitals and structured data: how to spot problems, fix them and avoid common myths.

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Software development 8 min read

Loading is not verification: how we track changes in partner terms

How our change monitor reads partner pages, compares them and archives evidence, why a person decides on changed terms, and what transfers to other domains.

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Software development 8 min read

Rate limits, lockouts and passkeys: how we designed the admin login

The order of checks before expensive password hashing, a lockout designed to preserve access for the owner, and WebAuthn credentials with user verification.

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Software development 7 min read

A cache that does not wait for the TTL: event-driven invalidation instead of a timer

Clearing a cache on write instead of waiting for a TTL: what it buys you, which concurrency trade-offs remain and when the approach is the wrong fit.

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Software development 7 min read

One architecture, three markets: running portals in several countries

Three repositories, two databases, one admin: what to share, what to localise, how to carry changes between markets and when cross-domain hreflang makes sense.

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Software development 8 min read

Changing an insurance core system without downtime: rhythm, not heroics

A policy administration system cannot be switched off. Changing products, interfaces and data in a fixed release rhythm, with tests, rollback and DORA.

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Software development 9 min read

Apache Superset as a proof of concept: data for analysts before the BI project

A proof of concept on Apache Superset over an existing database: datasets, performance, access rights, safe deployment and the path to a BI specification.

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Software development 8 min read

Oracle to PostgreSQL migration: five places where it hurts, and how to verify it

The schema converts quickly. The rest of an Oracle to PostgreSQL migration is data types, sequences, procedures, SQL in applications and proof the data matches.

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Software development 7 min read

PostgreSQL vs. TimescaleDB: a performance test for government IT and what decided it

How to design a fair, repeatable database performance test, what comparing PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB showed for time series, and why operations decided.

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Software development 8 min read

Integrating third-party games via web services: contract before code

Wallet model, adapters, call signing, idempotency, rollbacks and daily reconciliation: what a contract with a game provider must cover before any code exists.

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Software development 8 min read

When a workflow engine pays off in a bank, and when a status column is enough

A BPMN engine handles long-running state, deadlines, escalations and audit but adds operations and licensing. When it pays off and when a status column will do.

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