Technical articles from our engineers

Deep dives into the systems we build — real-time platforms, mobile apps, databases and cloud pipelines — written by the engineers who build them.

AI

A chatbot that answers from your documents: RAG with .NET and Azure OpenAI

How retrieval-augmented generation works, how we chunk, index and retrieve, and a minimal C# implementation you can adapt to your own help centre or policy library.

Architecture

Architecting a Real-Time Ride-Hailing Platform with .NET, SignalR, Firebase and Flutter

How we designed the dispatch, live tracking and payment flows of a ride-hailing platform for Finland — and the trade-offs between SignalR and Firebase for real-time data.

Cloud

Designing a Delivery App Backend That Scales on Azure and AWS

Order state machines, event-driven services, the transactional outbox and the cloud building blocks we use to keep delivery platforms fast at lunchtime peaks.

Healthcare

Building a Medical Appointment Booking System: Privacy, Reliability and Patient Experience

The design decisions behind a clinic booking platform — double-booking prevention, SMS reminders, GDPR-ready records and a patient app people actually use.

Front-end

Angular vs React vs Vue in 2026: How We Choose for Real Projects

All three frameworks are excellent. The right choice depends on your team, your product and your ten-year plan — here is the decision framework we use.

Mobile

Flutter or .NET MAUI? A Practical Guide for Cross-Platform Apps

Both let you ship iOS and Android from one codebase. We use both in production — here is when each one wins, with real examples from taxi, delivery and enterprise apps.

Data

MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB or Firebase? Choosing the Right Database

Relational, document or real-time — a practical guide to picking (and combining) databases for booking systems, delivery platforms and mobile apps.

DevOps

CI/CD Done Right: Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions Pipelines for .NET and Flutter

The pipeline blueprint we use on every project — build, test, scan, deploy to staging, promote to production — with real YAML for a .NET API and a Flutter app.

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