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App development
5 articlesPlan the MVP, user accounts, APIs, integrations, performance and ongoing application lifecycle around real user workflows.
- 01Product scope · 11 minWhat does an MVP app actually need?A first release fails far more often from being wide and unfinished than from being narrow. An MVP is not a cut-down version of everything — it is one workflow taken all the way to a real outcome, with the rest deferred on purpose.Read insight →
- 02Application security · 12 minApp authentication and user account architectureSign-in is the visible part. The part that decides whether an application holds up is the account model beneath it: identity, session, membership and permission kept as separate concerns and enforced on the server.Read insight →
- 03Integration architecture · 12 minAPIs and integrations in modern applicationsEvery integration is a dependency on something you do not control. Applications that stay reliable treat external systems as fallible by design: an integration layer, explicit failure handling, and a data model that remains its own source of truth.Read insight →
- 04Application performance · 11 minApp performance: what makes an application feel fast?Perceived speed is not the same as measured speed. An application feels fast when every action is acknowledged immediately, the layout never moves under the user, and slow work happens where nobody is waiting on it.Read insight →
- 05Application maintenance · 11 minMaintaining an app after launchLaunch is where the real cost curve starts. An application that is observed, patched and improved in small increments gets cheaper to change; one left alone until something breaks gets more expensive every quarter until it is rebuilt.Read insight →
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