I have seen firsthand that outsourcing for startups is a survival strategy. In the early stages, founders are pulled in every direction, trying to build products, manage infrastructure, handle operations, and still find time for customers. The reality is, no startup can do it all in-house without burning out or losing focus. When exploring outsourcing, there are common mistakes…
A few years back, one of our clients, a fast-growing fashion retailer entering new markets, was preparing for a major seasonal campaign. Ads were converting, customers were filling carts, and traffic was climbing to record highs. Then disaster struck. At the moment of truth, their payment gateway integration began rejecting perfectly valid credit cards. Overnight, the company lost tens…
I still remember the morning my phone wouldn’t stop ringing. One of our largest SaaS clients had a serious problem. Their application was exploding in popularity, adding more than 3,000 new users every single day. From the outside, that looked like success. Inside, their team was firefighting constant outages, slow deployments, and mounting customer complaints. Their monolithic architecture simply…
A few years back, a global manufacturing client reached out in crisis. Their outdated ERP system had crashed again, right in the middle of a critical quarter-end close. While IT scrambled and finance grew frustrated, leadership finally asked the question: is it time for enterprise software upgrades? The CIO’s answer echoed a common fear: “If we upgrade, we break…
Let me start with a bold statement: you don’t need a million-dollar QA budget to ship a rock-solid product. But you do need a smart, scalable, and affordable QA strategy that actually works. Here’s a stat that should grab your attention: according to the World Quality Report, bugs found after release cost up to 15x more to fix than…
