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Practical articles from Palmate Solutions on APIs, hosting, automation, e-commerce technology, and software planning — written beside the tools and services on this site. Page 3 of 4.
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Planning & Delivery
How to Run a Discovery Workshop Before You Write Code
A one- or two-day working session that produces jobs, systems, non-goals, and owners — so the first sprint is not a debate about what the project is.
10 July 2026 · 5 min read
Planning & Delivery
What Technical Debt Actually Costs a Growing Business
Debt is not “messy code.” It is delayed change, fragile deploys, and a person who is afraid to touch production — priced in time and risk, not in linter scores.
8 July 2026 · 5 min read
Planning & Delivery
How to Handover a Software Project Without Losing the System
Repos, environments, secrets, runbooks, and who gets paged — a handover that a competent engineer can pick up, not a zip file and a goodbye.
6 July 2026 · 6 min read
APIs & Integrations
Common Mistakes When Integrating Third-Party APIs
The integration bugs that survive demos: auth and JWT expiry, pagination that stops at page one, timezone-blind timestamps, and retries that double-apply money and stock.
11 June 2026 · Updated 20 July 2026 · 6 min read
Business Systems
What Businesses Should Know Before Building an Internal Dashboard
Define the questions, sources of truth, roles, and refresh rules before you commission charts — so the dashboard does not become a shadow ERP.
21 May 2026 · Updated 18 June 2026 · 5 min read
APIs & Integrations
API Integration Checklist for Businesses
A practical checklist before you connect business systems: ownership, auth, contracts, webhooks, pagination, environments, and monitoring — plus tools to inspect JWTs and estimate scope.
15 May 2026 · Updated 20 July 2026 · 5 min read
Planning & Delivery
How to Choose a Software Development Company
A practical buyer’s guide: how to evaluate process, ownership, communication, and risk when hiring a software development partner.
6 May 2026 · Updated 18 June 2026 · 5 min read
Mobile Development
Flutter vs React Native vs Native Development
An honest comparison of Flutter, React Native, and native iOS/Android for business apps. Palmate uses Flutter as a default when a shared codebase fits — without treating other stacks as wrong.
23 April 2026 · Updated 20 July 2026 · 6 min read
Cloud & DevOps
Understanding 99.9% vs 99.99% Uptime
What 99.9% and 99.99% uptime allow in downtime per month and year, how SLAs count outages, and why extra nines cost operations, not slogans.
15 April 2026 · Updated 18 June 2026 · 5 min read
Mobile Development
How to Plan a Mobile App Before Development
A practical planning guide for business mobile apps: jobs-to-be-done, offline behaviour, API contracts, v1 scope, and store release work — before anyone designs a wall of screens.
9 April 2026 · Updated 20 July 2026 · 5 min read
Web Development
Website Development Checklist Before Launch
A practical pre-launch review covering SEO, performance, security, accessibility, analytics, content, legal, backups, and deployment.
2 April 2026 · Updated 18 June 2026 · 6 min read
Business Systems
How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost?
Planning ranges and cost drivers for custom software — discovery, integrations, quality, and maintenance — without a fake price menu. Use estimators to bound a conversation, then scope the work.
18 March 2026 · Updated 20 July 2026 · 6 min read