INSIGHTS

From the studio

TERAMIND 5 min read

MAKING THE VENDOR INVISIBLE: THE API'S POWER, OUR FLEXIBILITY

A customer wanted the data from their monitoring platform without anyone internally knowing which platform it was. It turned into a case that shows both how flexible Teramind's API really is, and how we engineer custom software for any scenario.

TERAMIND 6 min read

A 32-BIT OVERFLOW AT 1,500 SEATS: FINDING THE ROOT CAUSE THE VENDOR COULDN'T

We isolated the root cause of weeks of corrupted data in an enterprise monitoring deployment ourselves — the vendor's official update didn't fix it, so we found and permanently resolved a 32-bit counter overflow in PostgreSQL.

TERAMIND 4 min read

HOW AN UPDATE CAN SILENTLY LEAVE YOU WITHOUT SSL

A platform update reset the web server configuration and silently reverted a valid SSL certificate back to an old, expired one. Finding and fixing the container-level config took minutes — before the customer even noticed.

Infrastructure 7 min read

FROM 40 TO 100: A REAL PAGESPEED CASE STUDY

How we took kymcu.com from a 40 mobile performance score to 100/100/100/100 — the real fixes, in order, including the ones that looked reasonable but did nothing.

Development 6 min read

FROM IDEA TO LAUNCH: OUR 4-STAGE PROCESS

Every project follows the same skeleton: discovery, design & architecture, development & integration, launch & support. Here is why the order matters.

Development 5 min read

OFF-THE-SHELF SAAS OR CUSTOM SOFTWARE?

A decision guide: when subscribing to existing SaaS wins, when custom software actually pays off faster, and the three questions to ask first.

Security 6 min read

A NETWORK SECURITY CHECKLIST FOR SMBS

10 concrete, low-cost steps distilled from 25 years of systems administration experience — where most breaches actually come from.

Security 5 min read

EMAIL SECURITY: SPF, DKIM, DMARC EXPLAINED

Why your email lands in spam, how the three records work together, and the safe rollout order that avoids silently blocking legitimate mail.

Infrastructure 6 min read

CLOUDFLARE CACHE TRAPS (AND HOW WE HIT ONE)

A real incident from our own site: an immutable cache header, a forgotten version bump, and how to tell CDN cache apart from server-side template cache.