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No theory. Just what works.
What we've learned building AI tools, rescuing stalled projects, and getting data to behave — from the team doing the work.
15 Jun 2026 · Yaohong Ch'ng
The Enterprise Development Grant (EDG), explained
A plain-English guide to the Enterprise Development Grant: what it funds, who's eligible, the support levels, how it differs from the PSG, and the move to EDGE in 2026.
23 May 2026 · Yaohong Ch'ng
The Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG), explained
A plain-English guide to the Productivity Solutions Grant: what it funds, who's eligible, the 50% support level and cap, how to claim, and the move to EDGE in 2026.
30 Apr 2026 · Gerald Yeo
Migrating from Magento to Shopify without losing your SEO
The danger in a Magento-to-Shopify move isn't the new platform. It's lost rankings, downtime, and mangled data. A practical playbook for doing it cleanly.
7 Apr 2026 · Yaohong Ch'ng
How to keep a data warehouse from sprawling
A warehouse rots from accretion, not size. The structure and ownership that keep it trustworthy: deliberate layers, one definition per metric, and aggressive deprecation.
15 Mar 2026 · Gerald Yeo
How small teams ship like much larger ones
Leverage is not headcount. It is the coordination overhead a small team avoids and the tooling it lets compound. Why adding people often slows delivery, and what to do instead.
20 Feb 2026 · Gerald Yeo
How to replatform a live system without downtime
A migration fails at the cutover, not the rebuild. The techniques that let you move a live system without an outage — dual-running, backfill, and a rollback you have actually tested.
28 Jan 2026 · Yaohong Ch'ng
GPT vs Claude: choosing the right AI model for the job
There is no single best AI model, only the right one for a given task. How to match model to job, why bigger isn't always better, and why you shouldn't marry one provider.
5 Jan 2026 · Yaohong Ch'ng
What good instrumentation actually looks like
More dashboards is not more visibility. Good instrumentation tracks the events that answer real operational questions and alerts on the failures users actually feel — and ignores the rest.
13 Dec 2025 · Yaohong Ch'ng
Data warehouse vs data lake: which does your business need?
Most businesses reach for a data lake when a warehouse, or less, is what they need. What each one is, and how to tell which the business actually requires.
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