Articles

Benefits and constraints of shared software teams

Shared software team is quite a useful software delivery organisation model when the size of the projects are small. Shared teams are quite prevalent, but the downsides and tradeoffs are not well understood. Lack of awareness of these downsides can make the experience of the software teams as well as that of customers quite frustrating, unpleasant and failure even. Customers may even believe that their software team is not capable while the issues often are inherent to the model itself.

Vivek Singh

08.04.2024

Team, Delivery Model, Products

Nonprofit and Software

Planning for security testing of open source projects

Based on our experience of having gone through security testing of multiple open source projects - we are sharing how one can plan and prepare for it.

Vivek Singh

05.09.2023

Open Source, Security, Process

Nonprofit and Software

Software volatility is a good thing

Long lasting valuable software products cannot avoid volatility in its functionality

Vivek Singh

02.06.2023

Products, Software Architecture, Quality

Software Architecture

Product integration as a solution approach

Integrating multiple products offers a sustainable approach by not creating more software hence requiring more engineers and resources

Vivek Singh

05.04.2023

Integration, Architecture, Solution, Products

Nonprofit and Software

REST API Pagination and race condition

There is a less widely understood race condition in paginated REST API responses which can cause serious issues and difficult to identify bug.

Vivek Singh

19.07.2022

API

Software Architecture

Factoring software codebase size and complexity is most important factor to consider when taking ownership of generic open source products

Generic software solutions have very large codebases compared to custom solutions. Nonprofit organizations must factor in this when taking over ownership of such products.

Vivek Singh

27.05.2022

Open Source, Product, Custom Solution

Nonprofit and Software

Measuring and scaling community engagement

A simple technology idea to bring the communities voice into social programs. A hyperlink in the physical world.

Vivek Singh

23.03.2022

Nonprofit and Software

Making Gunak - enabling journey from access to healthcare to quality of healthcare

Short note on Gunak software system used in health programs for improving the quality of health services and facilities at public hospitals and clinics

Vivek Singh

07.03.2022

Health, Public Healthcare, Product

Nonprofit and Software

Deployment Architecture for Low Resource Contexts

We often discover that PWAs and cloud-based solutions, though applicable sometimes, but are often wrongly applied to low-resource setups. Hence, we attempt to develop a simple thumb rule for choosing deployment architecture for low-resource environments - with their tradeoffs.

Vivek Singh

07.12.2021

Software Architecture, Low Resoures

Nonprofit and Software

Evolution of public system from reporting systems to point-of-work systems

In a reporting software system (unlike point of work), the users don't use it when they are providing services to their clients (citizens). They use them later on, periodically, to report data about their work. Intuitively we like the point of work system, but it is the reporting systems that have dominated.

Vivek Singh

22.11.2021

development, government, software, reporting, point-of-work, dhis2

Nonprofit and Software

Benefits and constraints of shared software teams

Planning for security testing of open source projects

Software volatility is a good thing

Product integration as a solution approach

REST API Pagination and race condition

Factoring software codebase size and complexity is most important factor to consider when taking ownership of generic open source products

Measuring and scaling community engagement

Making Gunak - enabling journey from access to healthcare to quality of healthcare

Deployment Architecture for Low Resource Contexts

Evolution of public system from reporting systems to point-of-work systems

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