
Articles by Pedro Cunha
Choosing and buying custom software14 min read
When a legacy system needs replacing — and when it doesn't
Old, ugly or slow is not a reason to replace: of the nine systems that were already running when we arrived, we replaced two and still maintain five. The signs that actually decide are different ones — nobody can change the system, you lost access to your own product, and the team has already built a path around it.
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What changes in a system when the app has to work with no signal
Offline-first is not an app feature: it is a decision that changes the database, the server and the product scope — above all, what does not go onto the device. And an app that promises offline and freezes is worse than an honestly online one: the difference between the two lives in details that almost never show up in a proposal.
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