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Engineering notes, infrastructure deep dives and practical guides from the Exotecho team.
The claim When a client asks for a fixed price on a software project they have described in a paragraph, the honest answer is that nobody can price it yet, because the paragraph do...
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The claim Before you commit your business's data to a software vendor, the question that matters most is not what the service does but how you get your data back out if you leave —...
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The claim After an outage, the most tempting explanation is that someone made a mistake, and the most useless response is to make sure that person is more careful next time. People...
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The claim If the only complete copy of your customer relationships lives inside a platform you do not control — a social network's follower count, a marketplace's buyer list, an em...
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The claim When a software estimate turns out to be half of what the project actually cost, the usual explanation — padding was insufficient, the team was optimistic — misses the me...
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The claim When a business chooses a hosting provider or a support vendor primarily on monthly price, it is optimising the smallest term in the equation. The cost that dominates the...
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The claim When you add a third-party plugin, extension, or library to the software your business runs on, the feature list is the least important thing to evaluate. The number that...
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The claim When someone leaves your company, every account they could reach should be closed or transferred before the end of their last day — and for an involuntary departure, with...
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The claim The monthly fee is the smallest number in a software decision. The number that determines whether you are still using that tool in 2032 — happily or otherwise — is what i...
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