Essorio Ventures publications
Practical notes on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and custom software engineering — for the CTOs and founders who have to make these decisions, not just read about them.
Retainer vs. staff augmentation: what the contract says about the relationship
Two models that look similar on paper but produce wildly different outcomes. What to watch for when you're choosing how to bring in external engineering expertise.
Coming soonWhy most B2B SaaS products fail before they reach 100 customers
It's rarely the technology. The patterns we see consistently in early-stage B2B products that don't make it — and the signals that separate the ones that do.
Read articleCI/CD pipelines that don't break at 3am: what we've learned
Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure. Our opinionated guide to building deployment pipelines that stay out of the way and keep you asleep at night.
Read articleMonolith vs. microservices: the decision framework we actually use
Not another think-piece. A concrete set of questions — team size, release cadence, domain complexity, operational maturity — that actually drive the answer.
Read articleHow we scoped a complex software engagement in five working days
Discovery doesn't need to take months. How we compressed full technical scoping into a focused sprint — and why that changed the outcome of the engagement.
Read articleReady to build something that lasts?
We work with product teams and founders who want senior engineers – not extra headcount. Tell us what you're working on.
Contact UsFour questions to ask before hiring a software development partner
The surface-level questions (stack, experience, timeline) are table stakes. The questions that actually predict a good partnership are different — and most companies don't ask them.
Read articleAPI design for longevity: principles we apply from day one
A poorly designed API is the debt that never goes away. The conventions, versioning strategies, and documentation habits that keep integrations from becoming the thing you regret.
Read articleProduct analytics in B2B: what's worth tracking and what's noise
Event tracking is easy to add and hard to maintain. How to choose the metrics that actually drive product decisions — and avoid the dashboard that no one looks at.
Read articleBuilding multi-tenant SaaS on AWS: what we learned the hard way
Isolation models, data residency, noisy-neighbor problems, IAM sprawl. A practical retrospective on the infrastructure decisions that matter most at the start.
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