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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 4 of 5.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Web Development
Website Development Checklist Before Launch
A practical pre-launch review covering SEO, performance, security, accessibility, analytics, content, legal, backups, and deployment.
E-commerce Technology
How E-commerce Inventory Synchronisation Works
How multi-channel stock stays consistent: one authority, reservations, order events, and why naive two-way sync oversells.
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.
Cloud & DevOps
Docker for Business Applications: Why Containerisation Matters
What Docker actually changes for a business app: repeatable deploys, staging that matches production, and an operations story a second engineer can run — without treating Kubernetes as mandatory.
Automation
How Business Automation Reduces Manual Work
Where automation actually removes copy-paste, status chasing, and re-keying — and where rules, APIs, and human review still belong.
Planning & Delivery
How to Plan a Successful Digital Transformation Project
Sequence a digital transformation as current state, owners, data cleanup, and slices you can operate — not a software purchase with a slogan.
Cloud & DevOps
A Practical Guide to Choosing Between a VPS and Cloud Hosting
When a Linux VPS is enough, when managed cloud earns its complexity, and how uptime targets, backups, and operations — not marketing labels — should decide.