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Company news · 3 min read
Hiring senior engineers in 2026: what has changed
Notes from the last 12 months of senior engineering hires — what attracts, what repels, what compensation looks like.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
Industry insights · 7 min read
Telco BSS migrations: a pragmatic checklist
Five hard-won lessons from four years of replatforming customer-facing telco systems.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
Engineering · 6 min read
How we run a two-week sprint with embedded clients
The rituals, the document set, and the failure modes we still see.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
AI · 8 min read
Why your "RAG works" demo doesn't hold in production
A field note from three deployments and what they taught us about evaluation, fallback, and the model-shaped hole in most retrieval stacks.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
Industry insights · 6 min read
The mid-market platform trap
Why every mid-market ecommerce team ends up with five overlapping platforms — and how to consolidate without an 18-month replatform.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
Engineering · 9 min read
AI-assisted code review at scale
What works, what does not, and where LLMs become an active hazard in CR pipelines.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
Engineering · 7 min read
Composable commerce playbook
When to replatform, what to swap first, and how to keep peak-season uptime through the migration.
Igor Stajić · 23 Jun 2026
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