Now you might be asking, how can I possibly be saved £500 a year by removing Apache, Apache is free, it doesn’t cost anything to run it, and you’d be right. But there was a very specific reason. Before we get into the how, first need to take a look at how my deploy my services. This is shown in a diagram below: image.png All of our web traffic goes through...
Chris Board
02/11/2026•8 min readI kept seeing people posting how their spending their days writing prompt after prompt build software in hours or days, instead of months and years, so I wanted to see what all the fuss is about and try it myself, and spoiler alert, I hated every minute even though I did manage to build something within a couple of hours. This wasn’t the first time I’ve tried using AI of course, I’ve been using...
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26/02/2026•5 min readWe believe that support is one of the most importing things when it comes to providing products or services. You could create the best app in the world, but if you run into a problem or need help and the support you received is cumbersome or slow, its going to impact what people think of your product and potentially, especially if its a new customer, cause the customer to churn. This is...
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26/11/2025•3 min readFor a long time, I’ve been wanting to explore Docker, but never had the time or a specific reason to look into it. However, as you may or may not know, we recently migrated Test Track from a 2 project, Vite for Frontend and Laravel for backend, to a single NextJS project to simplify our development and deployment process. This was successful, except...
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27/08/2025•4 min readThe time is finally here, the rewrite of Test Track is finally on its way. With the rewrite comes with performance improvements but many new features and improvements as well. Below is a list of a high level list of what’s change, but these are more detailed further down this post. Ability to delete all test plan steps even when used in a test run Comment badge fix 2FA Support Login...
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28/06/2025•5 min readMost of the advice you see online when building your SaaS is not to implement feedback based on one user, and a lot of the time that may be correct. But you should also use your own judgement and if you feel that it benefits other customers, either now or in the future, then go for it. You should of course consider even if the idea might be a good one, if it takes too long to implement, then...
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14/03/2025•2 min read