Journal
What we learn building enterprise software. No fluff.
Serverless isn't just a cost optimization. It's an architectural choice that changes how you think about reliability, scaling, and operations. Here's how we think about it.
Three years of building multi-tenant SaaS platforms taught us things no blog post covers. Data isolation, billing per tenant, custom domains, and the things that break at scale.
Senior team, real case studies, code ownership, and post-launch support. What to look for and what to avoid when hiring a software team.
Off-the-shelf works for standard problems. Custom wins when your business logic is genuinely yours. A practical decision framework.
Document processing, intelligent search, workflow automation — these work today. Fully autonomous agents — still fragile. An honest assessment.
Bad architecture doesn't announce itself. It accumulates. By the time it's obvious, 70% of your engineering capacity is gone to maintenance.
Speed over polish vs reliability over speed. Minimal vs multi-tenant. Why treating one like the other fails — and how we scope each.
Cartwheel Galaxy · Custom Software Platforms