Why Regulated Enterprises Are Bringing AI In-House
The compliance case for on-premise AI is becoming impossible to ignore. Here's why the economics and capabilities have finally aligned.
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What a Dev Needs to Know of Systemd
If you've deployed an application to a Linux server in the past decade, you've almost certainly encountered systemd. Yet for many developers, it remains a mysterious black box. This post gives you a practical understanding of systemd: what it is, why it exists, and how to use it effectively.
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The Remote Work Lie: Who Really Wants You Back in the Office
The return-to-office narrative is driven by commercial real estate interests and executives who confuse control with leadership. The evidence tells a different story: remote work delivers equal or superior productivity, better retention, and significant environmental benefits.
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Go 1.26: What's New and Why It Matters
Go 1.26 is the largest release the Go team has ever shipped. The Green Tea GC, faster cgo, new(expr) syntax, and an experimental runtime/secret package for forward secrecy make this release worth upgrading to immediately.
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Profiling FastAPI with Py-Spy: Finding the Bottleneck That's Costing You Seconds
FastAPI is fast—until it isn't. When your 50ms endpoint suddenly takes 4 seconds, py-spy helps you find exactly where the time goes without the overhead and async confusion of traditional profilers.
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Slaying the Hydra: Why PM, PjM, and Engineer Was Always a Bureaucracy Engine — And AI Finally Kills It
The traditional split between product managers, project managers, and engineers existed for a reason. But AI is compressing the work so dramatically that the old role boundaries are collapsing. The product-minded engineer is the only role that survives intact.
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Database Access in Python: A Practical Guide
Working with databases in Python offers several approaches, each with distinct trade-offs. This guide covers the main options—raw SQL, query builders, and ORMs—with practical advice on when to reach for each.
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The Kill Switch is Real: Digital Sovereignty and the Skills Crisis Europe Can't Ignore
When Microsoft cut off the ICC prosecutor's email, it proved what sovereignty advocates had warned about for years. Now Europe is scrambling to respond—but does it have the skills to go it alone?
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Productionising FastAPI Applications with Podman
FastAPI has become a popular choice for building Python APIs. Getting an application running locally is one thing; deploying it reliably to production is another matter entirely.
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Sovereignty Starts at the Terminal
The personal computer revolution changed who got to participate in shaping the future. Today, as AI reshapes computing, the terminal remains our tool for maintaining sovereignty.
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Return of View Source
Modern browsers have matured enough to handle web development without heavy framework abstractions. See how we migrated from Svelte to VanillaJS, reducing dependencies by 94% and node_modules size by 99.7%.
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SaaS Isn't Dead Yet: Why Smaller Is About to Get Much Better
GenAI won't kill SaaS - it will democratise it. Why smaller, leaner software businesses are about to thrive.
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Containerisation Done Right
Our recent success delivering a containerised SaaS application using Podman rather than Docker.
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Why Golang
Learn why we at uRadical love the simple elegance of Golang and why it might be the ideal fit for your next project.
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Hello World
Introducing uRadical, a 3rd generation software agency committed to enabling the future of your organisation.
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