No hot takes. No 'top 10 tips'. Just write-ups of projects we have shipped at EliteTech — what we decided, what we got wrong, and what worked.
Last winter we migrated a SaaS dashboard to the Next.js App Router. The migration itself was easy. The week after wasn't. A short retro on three things the tutorials skip.
Read the note →The arguments against React Native have shifted in the last three years. The arguments for it haven't, much. A short note on where the line is today — and one project where we got it wrong.
A short retro on one setting we switch on before writing the first query, and three habits we quietly dropped after a few years.
No re-architecture, no new Savings Plan. Three sweeps most teams know they should run, and one most teams have never heard of.
The UniFi controller shows hundreds of metrics. An operator looks at five of them long-term. A short note on which five, why, and one alert we wish UniFi sent on its own.
An offhand question during a routine audit lit a fuse. One weekend of disaster-recovery drills later, we had four checks we now run quarterly for every managed client.
Four rules we've stuck with since 2019, one experiment we rolled back after a year, and why we never write a custom module until a second project asks for it.
A site visit to a 60-person client took four hours before we sent the quote. It probably saved a month of work. A short note on what turns up when you leave the desk.
A short retro on why we no longer reach for a cache by default — and the three questions we ask before adding one.
Case study on SmartZmluva — a platform that simplifies creating and signing legal documents online, without a lawyer visit and without paper.
Case study on Helply — a web platform that connects customers with verified local professionals. From first call to multi-tenant production in under six months, with the same senior team start to finish.