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Here’s where we share lessons, thoughts, and experiments in building APIs smarter, faster, and with less repetition. Whether you’re a developer, product manager, or tech founder, you’ll find value in how we think and build at SWAIN.
AI Security Is Becoming a Software Discipline. We Should Have Seen This Coming.
Once software can reason, make decisions and trigger actions, governance is no longer optional. It becomes part of the architecture itself.
Building MCPs That Guide AI Coding Agents
Technical debt is the accumulated cost of software maintenance. It shows when we want to modify or extend systems that weren’t built to current standards, resulting in slower development cycles, production systems that teams are afraid to touch, and budget getting drained on maintenance.
AI, Deterministic Modelling, and the Future of Governance
If every AI-assisted solution solves problems differently, organisations may eventually inherit ecosystems that become increasingly difficult to govern, secure, and evolve.
Do you really need a full system rewrite?
Legacy systems become harder to work with over time. Documentation falls behind, ownership becomes unclear, and it becomes harder to understand how the system actually fits together. Even small changes start to carry more risk, especially when dependencies and system behaviour are no longer fully visible.
Best platforms to modernise legacy applications without extensive rewrites
The best approach to modernising legacy applications without extensive rewrites depends on how the platform interacts with existing systems.
How to modernise legacy systems without downtime
When systems are fully understood, updates can be introduced without breaking what already works. Without that understanding, teams are forced to choose between delaying change or accepting disruption.
How to Measure Technical Debt
Technical debt is the accumulated cost of software maintenance. It shows when we want to modify or extend systems that weren’t built to current standards, resulting in slower development cycles, production systems that teams are afraid to touch, and budget getting drained on maintenance.
Why are API’s broken
Why API Consistency Is Breaking Modern Software TeamsYour new backend developer just shipped their first API. It took them three weeks. Not because they are slow. Because your API layer is a box of LEGO with no picture on the lid. Week one: figuring out what bricks...
Why API Consistency Is Breaking Modern Software Teams
Why API Consistency Is Breaking Modern Software TeamsThe Hidden Problem With Modern APIs Most software teams do not struggle to build APIs. They struggle to make them behave consistently. At a glance, everything appears functional. Services respond, endpoints...