Insights
Practical essays on integrations, infrastructure, and custom software. Written to be used beside the tools and services on this site — not as thin SEO pages.
APIs & Integrations
The integration bugs that survive demos: auth and JWT expiry, pagination that stops at page one, timezone-blind timestamps, and retries that double-apply money and stock.
11 June 2026 · 5 min read
Business Systems
Define the questions, sources of truth, roles, and refresh rules before you commission charts — so the dashboard does not become a shadow ERP.
21 May 2026 · 5 min read
APIs & Integrations
A practical checklist before you connect business systems: ownership, auth, contracts, webhooks, pagination, environments, and monitoring — plus tools to inspect JWTs and estimate scope.
15 May 2026 · 5 min read
Tutorials
A practical buyer’s guide: how to evaluate process, ownership, communication, and risk when hiring a software development partner.
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Mobile Development
An honest comparison of Flutter, React Native, and native iOS/Android for business apps. Palmate uses Flutter as a default when a shared codebase fits — without treating other stacks as wrong.
23 April 2026 · 6 min read
Cloud & DevOps
What 99.9% and 99.99% uptime allow in downtime per month and year, how SLAs count outages, and why extra nines cost operations, not slogans.
15 April 2026 · 5 min read
Mobile Development
A practical planning guide for business mobile apps: jobs-to-be-done, offline behaviour, API contracts, v1 scope, and store release work — before anyone designs a wall of screens.
9 April 2026 · 5 min read
Web Development
A practical pre-launch review covering SEO, performance, security, accessibility, analytics, content, legal, backups, and deployment.
2 April 2026 · 5 min read
Business Systems
Planning ranges and cost drivers for custom software — discovery, integrations, quality, and maintenance — without a fake price menu. Use estimators to bound a conversation, then scope the work.
18 March 2026 · 5 min read
E-commerce Technology
How multi-channel stock stays consistent: one authority, reservations, order events, and why naive two-way sync oversells.
18 March 2026 · 5 min read
Cloud & DevOps
What Docker actually changes for a business app: repeatable deploys, staging that matches production, and an operations story a second engineer can run — without treating Kubernetes as mandatory.
6 March 2026 · 5 min read
Automation
Where automation actually removes copy-paste, status chasing, and re-keying — and where rules, APIs, and human review still belong.
4 March 2026 · 6 min read
Tutorials
Sequence a digital transformation as current state, owners, data cleanup, and slices you can operate — not a software purchase with a slogan.
24 February 2026 · 5 min read
Cloud & DevOps
When a Linux VPS is enough, when managed cloud earns its complexity, and how uptime targets, backups, and operations — not marketing labels — should decide.
19 February 2026 · 6 min read
Security
A practical baseline for SSH access, firewalls, updates, secrets, and backups on a Linux production server — not a pentest guide.
8 February 2026 · 6 min read
APIs & Integrations
How APIs and webhooks replace copy-paste between tools: event-driven sync, idempotency, monitoring, and a practical way to scope an integration project.
5 February 2026 · 6 min read
Cloud & DevOps
How shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers differ in control, isolation, cost, and operations — so you pick the host you can actually run.
22 January 2026 · 6 min read
Business Systems
A practical build-versus-buy framework for operators choosing between SaaS subscriptions and custom software — covering fit, total cost, lock-in, and when a hybrid is the honest answer.
22 January 2026 · 6 min read