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Practical guides for technology decisions

Written for business owners and product teams. Each article explains one topic in plain words, and every factual claim links to the source it came from.

Adopting AI in your business: where it helps, where it doesn't, and how to start

A practical guide to choosing AI use cases, preparing data, build vs buy, evaluation and oversight, with NIST AI RMF, India's AI guidelines and the DPDP Act.

Security7 min read

API security essentials: the OWASP API Security Top 10 in practice

The OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023) explained, with practical controls for authorisation, tokens, rate limits, inventory and third-party APIs.

Cloud7 min read

Backup and disaster recovery basics: RPO, RTO, 3-2-1 and tested restores

How to set recovery objectives, apply the 3-2-1 rule, protect backups from ransomware, choose a cloud DR strategy and prove that restores actually work.

Security8 min read

CERT-In's 6-hour incident reporting rule: what businesses need in place

CERT-In's April 2022 Directions explained: who they cover, the 6-hour reporting window, reportable incidents, 180-day logs, clock sync, and a readiness checklist.

Choosing a tech stack for a web application

How to pick front-end, back-end, database and hosting technologies from your requirements, support lifecycles and team, not from fashion.

Choosing IoT connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE-M and cellular

How the main IoT radio options compare on range, power, data rate, cost and coverage, and a practical way to choose the right one for a connected product.

Cloud6 min read

Cloud migration strategies: the 7 Rs and how AWS, Azure and Google compare

Rehost, replatform, refactor and the rest: how AWS, Microsoft and Google define cloud migration strategies, and how to choose one per workload.

Cloud8 min read

Controlling cloud costs: a practical guide for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Budgets and alerts, tagging, rightsizing, autoscaling, commitments, storage lifecycle, egress and switching off non-production, explained from official docs.

Core Web Vitals explained: LCP, INP and CLS in plain terms

What LCP, INP and CLS measure, the good and poor thresholds, why field data beats lab scores, and the fixes that most often move each metric.

Delivery6 min read

DORA metrics: measuring software delivery performance

The five current DORA metrics, how they evolved from the four keys, how to measure them for a service, and the pitfalls to avoid.

Delivery7 min read

How to write a software project brief your development partner can act on

What to put in a brief for a software partner: goals, users, scope, constraints, integrations, data, compliance, success measures, budget, timeline. With a template.

Security9 min read

India's DPDP Act and Rules: what they mean for websites and apps

Notice, consent, consent managers, user rights, breach reporting, children's data and penalties under the DPDP Act 2023 and Rules 2025, with a practical checklist.

Mobile8 min read

Native, cross-platform or PWA? How to choose your mobile app approach

Swift and Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform and PWAs compared on performance, device access, team skills, maintenance and app store rules.

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) explained: grounding AI in your own data

How retrieval-augmented generation works, from chunking and embeddings to hybrid search and re-ranking, plus access control, evaluation and the security risks.

Delivery7 min read

SaaS or custom software? A practical decision framework

When to buy SaaS, when to build custom software and when to combine them, with a scoring framework, cost factors, data and compliance checks, and exit planning.

Delivery7 min read

Scoping an MVP: how to decide what goes into version one

A practical method for scoping a minimum viable product: define what you need to learn, map the journey, prioritise with MoSCoW and keep the essentials.

Securing IoT devices: a practical checklist mapped to ETSI EN 303 645

A security checklist for connected products, mapped to ETSI EN 303 645 and the OWASP IoT Top 10, with EU CRA, UK PSTI and Indian guidance in view.

Securing LLM applications: a practical guide to the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs (2026)

The ten risks in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026, what changed from 2025, and the engineering controls that keep AI features safe in production.

Security9 min read

SPF, DKIM and DMARC explained: authenticating your business email

What SPF, DKIM and DMARC each do, example DNS records, the SPF 10-lookup limit, a safe DMARC rollout, and the Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook.com sender rules.

UPI and payments for Indian apps: what product teams need to know

How UPI works, how apps accept payments through payment aggregators, and the RBI rules on card tokenisation, authentication and data storage that shape the build.

WCAG 2.2 in plain words: a practical accessibility guide

What WCAG 2.2 asks for, what changed from 2.1, a working AA checklist, how to test, and where India's GIGW 3.0 and IS 17802 fit in.

Delivery7 min read

What drives software development cost, and how estimates are made

The real cost drivers behind a software project, the main estimation methods, and how to tell a reliable estimate from a guess.

Delivery8 min read

What software maintenance actually involves after launch

Security patches, dependency updates, platform changes, monitoring, backups, certificate renewals and small fixes: what keeps software healthy and how to budget.

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