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We write about four areas where we do our deepest engineering work — practical guides from projects in production, not demos or theory.

Build Decisions

Architecture, stack choices, and trade-offs behind real product builds — when to use which framework, how to structure a multi-tenant SaaS, and the calls that make or break a launch.

Shopify Engineering

Checkout extensions, theme performance, headless commerce, and Shopify Functions — technical depth for developers and operators running stores at scale.

SaaS Infra & Payments

Subscription billing, Stripe integrations, deployment architecture, database connection pooling, and the infrastructure decisions that determine whether a product scales or breaks.

Migration & Scaling

Moving from WordPress to headless, Shopify to custom, or legacy stacks to modern ones — real runbooks and lessons from migrations we've shipped.

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Two taxes, one price: a $100 price split into GST 5% = $5.00 and QST 9.975% = $9.98 for $14.98 tax, with the compound result of $15.47 struck through

SAAS INFRASTRUCTURE & PAYMENTS

Quebec sales tax is 14.975%, not 15.47% - fixing GST + QST in WooCommerce

Quebec charges GST 5% and QST 9.975% on the same price - 14.975% in total. A WooCommerce QST row marked Compound charges 15.47% instead. How to check your rows, fix them, and test the result.

Pratik Talati

8 min read · 13 October 2026

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Cover: A retired VAT plugin, replaced one feature at a time. A diagram links EU VAT Assistant (retired 2022) to evidence, VAT numbers, reports and rates

SAAS INFRASTRUCTURE & PAYMENTS

Replacing Aelia EU VAT Assistant - a migration guide for WooCommerce stores

Aelia EU VAT Assistant was retired in June 2022 and still gets only compatibility updates. What it did, what replaces each feature, and how to switch on a staging copy.

Pratik · 16 min read · October 8, 2026

Nova Scotia HST is 14% now: check your WooCommerce tax rate rows, from CA / NS 15.0000 to 14.0000

SAAS INFRASTRUCTURE & PAYMENTS

Nova Scotia HST is now 14% - is your WooCommerce store still charging 15%?

Nova Scotia HST dropped from 15% to 14% on 1 April 2025. WooCommerce's manual tax rates never update on their own, so stores that haven't edited the row still charge 15%. How to check and fix it.

Pratik · 7 min read · September 29, 2026

Diagram of a Shopify operations AI agent: the agent calls an MCP server with read tools and a propose tool; reads go to the Shopify Admin API, while proposed changes pass through a human approval step first.

SHOPIFY ENGINEERING

Building a Shopify AI Agent With MCP That Your Ops Team Can Trust

What Shopify MCP actually is, when an AI agent for store operations is worth building, and how to build one with narrow scopes, approvals and an audit log.

Pratik · 24 min read · September 17, 2026

Modern isometric illustration of a WooCommerce to Shopify data migration pipeline with database servers transferring products, customer records, and order ledgers to a cloud storefront

MIGRATION & SCALING STORIES

Moving from WooCommerce to Shopify: what to import, what to archive, and what breaks

What actually moves in a WooCommerce to Shopify migration, what belongs in an archive instead of live orders, and the Admin API details that trip up historical imports.

Pratik · 12 min read · September 14, 2026

Engineer pointing at a SaaS architecture diagram with web, mobile and admin apps, an API gateway, auth, user, billing, notification and analytics services, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and a code-build-test-deploy pipeline

BUILD DECISIONS

Outsourcing SaaS Development: What a Senior-Led Offshore Team Actually Delivers

The "offshore dev = junior talent + timezone hell" assumption is 15 years out of date. Here's what changes when the team is senior-led — the quality process, the timezone reality, and three questions to ask before you sign.

Pratik · 9 min read · September 14, 2026

A WordPress site migrating between two servers as labelled modules - files, database, forms, DNS, analytics - with a central junction splitting old URLs into three paths: redirect, consolidate, and retire. BrainFeed Solutions.

MIGRATION & SCALING STORIES

WordPress Migration Checklist: SEO, Redirects, Forms, Hosting & Launch QA

A practitioner's WordPress migration checklist from real projects: how to move hosts or domains without losing SEO, breaking forms, or corrupting the database.

Pratik · 20 min read · August 6, 2026

Nine Shopify development services arranged around a hub - store setup, theme development, app development, headless storefronts, integrations, migrations, performance, checkout and conversion, ongoing support - with three highlighted to show most stores need only two or three.

SHOPIFY ENGINEERING

What Good Shopify Development Services Actually Include

Shopify development services can mean nine different kinds of work. See what a complete engagement includes and how to evaluate an agency proposal.

Pratik · 12 min read · July 17, 2026

SaaS development cost in 2026 by stage — MVP $40k–$80k, v1 $80k–$150k, Scale $150k–$400k, Regulated $400k+; build cost is only the first number.

BUILD DECISIONS

SaaS Development Cost in 2026: A Real Breakdown from People Who Build It

A real breakdown of SaaS development cost in 2026 — what actually drives the number, where agencies quietly cut corners, and what "offshore" really means for quality.

Pratik · 13 min read · July 8, 2026

Workflow automation in healthcare: a central automated-workflows hub connected to scheduling, EHR/PM system, billing, reporting, communications, and patient intake, with a clinician using a tablet. Buy the regulated core, integrate the systems, build what's unique to your workflow.

AI & AUTOMATION

Workflow Automation in Healthcare: What's Worth Building vs What to Buy

A practical build-vs-buy guide to workflow automation in healthcare - what to purchase, what to integrate, what to build, and where the time savings live.

Pratik · 14 min read · June 26, 2026

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