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Engineering notes, not thought leadership.

Practical writing from the Dev Luma team on building SaaS products, deploying AI that works in production, automating operations, and choosing a technical partner. Each article answers one question properly.

LatestSEO & GEO·5 August 2026·12 min read

How to get your company cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews

AI answer engines cite sources differently from how search engines rank pages. What they actually reward, the structural changes that make content quotable, and how to measure whether it worked.

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How to get your company cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews

AI Consulting12 min

The EU AI Act: what software teams actually have to do

Which EU AI Act risk tier your product falls into, the obligations that came into force in August 2026, and what non-EU companies serving EU users must do.

4 August 2026

AI Development11 min

RAG or fine-tuning: which does your AI product actually need?

A practical decision guide: what retrieval and fine-tuning each fix, what they cost, why most production systems use retrieval first, and when fine-tuning genuinely earns its place.

28 July 2026

Dev Force10 min

Staff augmentation, outsourcing, or hiring: how to actually choose

The three models compared on cost, ramp time, control, and IP — plus the conditions under which each one fails, and how to tell which your situation calls for.

21 July 2026

Custom Software10 min

Build or buy: when custom software actually pays for itself

A decision framework for build versus buy: the three questions that settle most cases, how to compare total cost honestly, and why the hybrid answer is usually right.

16 July 2026

AI Chatbots9 min

How AI chatbots actually reduce support costs (and when they don't)

A practical look at where AI chatbots cut support costs, the ticket mix that predicts success, how to calculate payback, and the conditions under which a chatbot makes support worse.

14 July 2026

Web Development10 min

Core Web Vitals: what actually moves the numbers

The three metrics Google measures, the handful of causes behind most failures, why lab scores mislead, and the fixes that reliably move field data.

7 July 2026

Mobile Apps11 min

Flutter, React Native, or native: choosing a mobile stack

How the three mobile approaches differ on performance, team fit, and long-term cost — and the specific conditions that should push you to native rather than cross-platform.

30 June 2026

SaaS Development11 min

How to choose a SaaS development partner: 9 questions that matter

The questions that actually predict whether a SaaS development partner will deliver — on architecture, code ownership, multi-tenancy, billing, and what happens when the engagement ends.

23 June 2026

Landing Pages9 min

Why your landing page doesn't convert

The five causes behind most poor-converting landing pages, how to tell which one you have, and the order to fix them in — starting with the one nobody wants to hear.

16 June 2026

DevOps & Deployment9 min

Where cloud bills actually go wrong

The handful of causes behind most surprising cloud bills — idle non-production, over-provisioning, egress, and observability spend — and the order to tackle them in.

9 June 2026

UI/UX Design9 min

Does a small team need a design system?

When a design system starts paying for itself, what the minimum useful version contains, and why most small teams build far more than they need.

28 May 2026

Business Automation10 min

Business process automation ROI: how to work out what to automate first

A method for ranking automation candidates by return — how to measure what a manual process really costs, which processes pay back fastest, and which to leave alone.

19 May 2026

Co-Founder Program10 min

Technical co-founder vs. dev agency: which does your startup need?

An honest comparison of taking on a technical co-founder versus paying an agency — how cost, control, equity, speed, and long-term risk differ, and which fits which situation.

28 April 2026

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