How software projects are scoped, priced, built, and maintained, from writing requirements and choosing a vendor to architecture decisions and keeping code healthy.
15 articles
Software Development9 min read
What a maintenance contract covers and what counts as new work, common pricing models, indicative monthly Rupiah ranges, SLA terms such as response time, severity levels, and uptime explained in minutes, and what to write into the contract.
Software Development9 min read
A practical guide for business owners: why vague briefs get quotes five times apart, what a useful brief contains, user stories and plain-language acceptance criteria, what to leave out, MoSCoW, sketches, and how the brief becomes your contract scope.
Software Development9 min read
A first-time client's guide to the software development process: discovery, design, sprints with regular demos, QA and UAT, deployment, handover and maintenance, typical durations, what the vendor needs from you, and signs a project is drifting.
Software Development9 min read
A practical guide to old PHP, CodeIgniter, VB6, and Delphi systems: the signs it is time to act, the first steps before any decision, the options from stabilising to a full rewrite, why big-bang rewrites fail, data migration, and parallel running.
Software Development10 min read
Indicative price ranges in Rupiah for simple, medium, and complex mobile apps, what really drives the number, Flutter versus two native apps, team and timeline, the yearly costs after launch, and how to compare vendor quotes.
Software Development10 min read
What a monolith and microservices really cost to run, why a modular monolith is the right default for most companies, the signs that you actually need to split, and how to extract a service safely when the time comes.
Software Development9 min read
A practical guide to building a minimum viable product: defining the one problem it must solve, cutting the feature list, choosing a stack you will not regret, setting a realistic timeline, measuring what users do, and deciding what comes after launch.
Software Development8 min read
When an off-the-shelf SaaS product is the better buy, when custom software pays for itself, how to compare costs over several years, the hybrid route of SaaS plus custom integrations, and the questions to ask before signing either.
Software Development10 min read
How to integrate an Indonesian payment gateway such as Midtrans or Xendit: choosing payment methods, hosted checkout versus direct API, verifying webhooks, handling duplicate notifications, order status design, expiry, refunds, testing in sandbox, and daily reconciliation.
Software Development9 min read
How a dedicated development team differs from a fixed-price project or time and materials, when each model fits, what a typical team looks like, how onboarding works, what to measure, and what to put in the contract.
Software Development9 min read
A practical guide to corporate IT training for developers: mapping skill gaps, choosing between public classes, in-house training, and bootcamps, designing hands-on sessions, using certification well, and measuring whether the training changed how the team works.
Software Development10 min read
A practical guide to developing on Windows with WSL 2: installation, where to keep project files, VS Code and Git, limiting memory with .wslconfig, Docker and systemd, networking, backups, and fixes for common problems.
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