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A Deep Dive Into A Technical Due Diligence
If you haven’t lived through a company acquisition, it can feel mysterious, part excitement, part existential dread. Stories circulate...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 2710 min read
Where Should You Keep Your Design Docs?
Ask any engineering team, “Where do you store your design docs?” and you’ll get a dozen different answers, a few strong opinions, and at...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 274 min read
Why Is Cloud Cost Monitoring Still So Unbearable? (Hint: It’s Not Just You)
Let’s admit it: Cloud cost monitoring is one of those topics that makes even experienced engineers and leaders groan. If you’ve ever...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 274 min read
Should You Move to Engineering Management, Stay a Senior IC, or Try Something Else? Let’s Talk About That Awkward In-Between
Let’s be honest: at some point in your software career, especially if you’ve been the “go-to builder” in small startups or agencies for...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 275 min read
Switching from Scrum to Kanban in Large Organizations: What Happens(and What Doesn’t)
Let’s talk about something that’s almost become a rite of passage in modern tech: the big switch from Scrum (sprints, story points, and...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 275 min read
The Temptation to Standardize IDEs (And Where the Pressure Comes From)
When the pressure to standardize IDEs comes from procurement or legal (“cost and governance!”) or non-technical execs (“productivity!”),...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 183 min read
Batch Database Migrations: Why “All-or-Nothing” Isn’t Always Enough
Anyone who’s led a software deployment or managed a data platform knows this scenario: your team has lined up a stack of database...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 185 min read
Scaling Monorepos and CI/CD: How to Avoid a Tangle of YAML (and Burnout)
TL;DR Treat your monorepo and CI/CD as a product. Invest in platform teams and tooling (Bazel, Nx, etc.). Design pipelines and release...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 184 min read
Legacy Migration: Five Patterns That (Sometimes) Save the Day
If you’ve ever stood in front of a 20-year-old legacy system, a mainframe, a monolith, or just a glorious “ball of mud” and been told,...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 185 min read
“Work for Equity!” Why Your Startup Isn’t Attracting Real Developers (and What to Do Instead)
TL;DR: “100% equity” isn’t a business model. It’s a punchline. If you want real builders, offer real value (including, you know, money)....
Oshri Cohen
Jun 183 min read
Will AI Take My Dev Job?
What the Bleeding Edge Is Actually Saying About AI-Created Code There’s a new kind of anxiety floating through the software engineering...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 175 min read
ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude, Real Learning, and the Risk of Skipping the Hard Stuff
TLDR; AI tools are incredible accelerators, but they can lull us into a false sense of mastery. Without deliberate reflection and...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 174 min read
Why “Going Waterfall” After a Layoff Is a Red Flag and What Works for Predictable Delivery
TL;DR: Don’t Let a Crisis Send You Backwards Layoffs and reorgs are tough, and the lure of Waterfall is strong. But history (and all the...
Oshri Cohen
Jun 174 min read
Agile Is a Hamster Wheel: Surviving (and Fixing) Legacy Code Hell
Surviving (and Fixing) Legacy Code Hell
Oshri Cohen
Jun 174 min read
Why Most Companies Fail When Building Custom Software Internally—and What to Do Instead
Custom software often seems like the logical next step for established businesses looking to scale operations. After decades of growth,...
Oshri Cohen
May 124 min read
Why Software Project Estimates Fail — And How Red Corner’s FCTO Services Fix It
Software project estimation is often seen as more of an art than a science, yet it’s the foundation of planning, budgeting, and client...
Oshri Cohen
May 123 min read
Why Hiring a Solo Developer for Business Software is Risky—and What to Do Instead
As your business grows, operational complexity inevitably increases. This is especially true in industries like medical staffing, where...
Oshri Cohen
May 123 min read
Custom Software Pitfalls: What Businesses Need to Know Before Building Their Own Tools
In the digital age, it’s easy to assume that if your business has a unique problem, it needs a custom-built software solution. The...
Oshri Cohen
May 123 min read
My client spent $150K on custom software, and now the dev agency is demanding $1,500/month in “mandatory maintenance” that was never in the contract.
One of my clients—a small manufacturing company with about 10 employees—recently went through a painfully expensive lesson in custom...
Oshri Cohen
May 122 min read
How do you effectively manage custom software development needs in a growing business?
Struggling with unclear requirements, high costs, and unreliable development teams during rapid growth? Discover a better way to manage...
Oshri Cohen
May 123 min read
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