Field notes, case studies and the occasional industry view.
Lessons from real engagements with UK shipping, vehicle logistics, fleet and freight operators. Written by the engineers doing the work.
Ten years of OEM EDI: what we’ve learned running Bison Exchange for global car-carrier shipping.
Library count tells you what an integration vendor can connect to. Operating depth tells you what they’ve actually run, in production, through ten years of change. Six things ten years of running Bison Exchange has taught us.
What logistics software taught us about building reliable systems for regulated sectors.
Most of our work since 2003 has been shipping and vehicle logistics. We also work in NHS, legal and medical. Almost everything we learned about reliable software in shipping transfers directly — here’s what.
Cyber Essentials for logistics operators: what the certification actually covers, and what it doesn’t.
An honest field guide to what Cyber Essentials actually covers, the difference between basic and Plus, and the five things UK logistics operators should be thinking about beyond the certification box.
WordPress as a serious platform: when complex builds make sense, and when they don’t.
WordPress has a credibility problem in technical circles that the numbers don’t justify. It runs about 40% of the web. Where it’s the right tool for a complex build, where it isn’t, and how to tell the difference.
Operator-heritage vs agency: why we run our own SaaS.
Most agencies that build software don’t run any. We’ve taken the opposite approach since 2003 — four production platforms with paying customers, on-call engineers, and the long tail of operational reality.
What a free hosting and DevOps review actually finds: five things we look at first.
Five specific things we look at on every estate — backups, patching, monitoring, cloud cost waste, and what actually happens at 3am. Honest findings. No theatre.
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