When I was evaluating a Ecommerce replatforming proposal for a large U.S. consumer electronics merchant last week, I stumbled upon a number that immediately caught my attention. Over 68 percent of ecommerce businesses that migrated between 2023 and 2025 reported regretting their platform choice within the first 18 months. That statistic was unsettling, and it reminded me how frequently…
Not a long time ago, during a major release for a fintech client, one of our senior developers made what seemed like a harmless change; a single missing null check. Within hours, part of the client’s payment gateway integration went down, disrupting thousands of transactions. What made it worse? The change had passed our code review checklist. That day,…
A few years ago, one of our fast-growing startup clients in London came to us for help after learning a hard lesson. They had hired another SaaS development agency that looked perfect on paper. The team had glowing testimonials, slick presentations, and promised lightning-fast delivery. But six months later, their product was drowning in technical debt, delayed releases, and…
Let me start with a story that shows why team location matters in the age of global delivery. Back in 2019, before remote-first became standard, a Fortune 500 client asked us to provide developers and QA engineers, but with one condition: every consultant had to work on-site at their U.S. office. At first, it seemed logical. Having the vendor…
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…
