Practical insights and guides on PHP/Symfony, React/Next.js, legacy modernization, and software architecture, drawn from 18+ years of building web applications for European businesses.
A ready to use interview template for the handover conversation with a departing developer, built around the questions that surface cron jobs, workarounds and supplier contacts.
Read moreWhen your only developer is unreachable and the live system is broken, emergency developer support is what gets you through the first hours without making things worse.
Read moreA codebase nobody wants to touch does not happen overnight. Here is how an unmaintainable codebase forms, what it costs the business, and where to start.
Read moreBus factor mitigation does not mean hiring a second developer. These seven steps, each with a realistic time estimate, cut the risk with the team you already have.
Read moreBus factor risk means one person holds the knowledge that keeps your software running. Here is how to tell if that person is you, and what it means if it is.
Read moreA resignation notice from your only developer starts a two week countdown. Here is what to secure, document, and hand over before the last day, so releases do not stop when they walk out.
Read moreA resignation and a start date rarely line up. Here is how to bridge the developer gap in both directions, from the person leaving and toward the person arriving, without losing what only they knew.
Read moreA practical look at what "productive from day one" really requires when you bring in an external developer, what you need to prepare beforehand, and what a competent contractor should deliver in the first ten working days.
Read moreThe job ad and interviews are the visible part of hiring a developer in Germany. The notice period is the part that quietly turns a six-week search into a nine-month wait.
Read moreHiring a temporary web developer for a system your business depends on is not the same as hiring for a side project. Six checks, done before the contract is signed, catch most of what goes wrong.
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