Notes from building business systems
Practical writing on software, e-commerce, AI automation, DevOps and machine learning, drawn from the systems I build at SaleForgers and Mapalz.
Custom software vs SaaS: when a growing business should build its own system
A practical way to decide between buying SaaS and building custom software, from the founder of SaleForgers: fit, workarounds, integrations, data and cost.
, 4 min read
FIFO inventory explained with a real system: keeping stock, invoices and ledgers in step
How FIFO inventory works, why it matters for retailers and e-commerce brands, and how StockFlow connects FIFO batches to purchases, sales and ledgers.
, 3 min read
AI automation for e-commerce: five workflows worth automating first
Where AI automation actually pays off for online sellers: customer queries, order triage, document extraction, stock alerts and content research.
, 3 min read
DevOps vs MLOps: what changes when your product ships a model
The difference between DevOps and MLOps explained with two real systems: an ERP deployed on every push, and a security model that retrains on a threshold.
, 3 min read
How audio fingerprinting works: building a Shazam-style song finder
Spectrograms, peak constellations and hashed peak pairs: how audio fingerprinting identifies a song from a few seconds of noisy audio, explained through SoundFind.
, 3 min read
Building a face recognition attendance system schools can trust
How FaceAttend works: YuNet face detection, ArcFace embeddings, timetable-driven sessions, late and absent rules, intruder logging and the bugs that taught me the most.
, 3 min read
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