I was fixing a production bug late one night during my time at The Ignition Group. The bug was in a scheduled job that processed inbound data files, and I had traced the problem to a specific method in the data access layer. The fix itself was straightforward. What caught me was the git blame. … Continue reading The Player-Coach Has a Shelf Life
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Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition
By this point, the platform was doing what it was designed to do. The multi-tenant database had replaced a dozen separate client environments. The data access layer and reporting engine were generating several million dollars a year in revenue. The automation tooling had gotten the data team back on schedule. We'd grown from about a … Continue reading Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition
The Boring Architecture Decisions That Quietly Compound
Every few years software engineers converge on a new paradigm, and suddenly it feels like you're falling behind if you haven't adopted it. Microservices. Event-driven architecture. Server-side rendering coming back around. Each of these emerged because real teams hit real scaling problems and needed better solutions. Before adopting any of them, ask whether your team … Continue reading The Boring Architecture Decisions That Quietly Compound
Every Small Company Is in One of Three Places with AI
A few months ago I was catching up with a consultant friend who works with small and mid-sized companies. He told me about a client, a founder running a small services company, who had asked him, almost sheepishly, "Should we be doing something with AI?" The founder had seen the headlines, watched competitors mention it … Continue reading Every Small Company Is in One of Three Places with AI
Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 2: The Product Architecture That Powered the Business
The multi-tenant database solved our scaling problem. Data updates that had previously taken weeks now flowed to subscribing clients automatically. Onboarding went from a technical project to a configuration exercise. The foundation was solid. But a database isn't a product. Our clients weren't paying for a well-designed schema; they were paying for access to healthcare … Continue reading Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 2: The Product Architecture That Powered the Business
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