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Web & software articles
Performance, e-commerce, online payment and custom development, under real conditions.
Articles about what happens under the bonnet: real speed on mobile, integrating Algerian payment, and technical choices that cost dearly three years later.
The thread running through them is measurement under real conditions. A site judged on an office connection is judged on conditions its visitors never see, and that mistake explains a good share of rebuilds that change nothing.
These subjects have a convenient property: they can be verified. You can test most of what is described here on your own site, today, without us.
Online payment comes up often because it is particular here. CIB and Edahabia do not connect like an international gateway, approval runs to weeks rather than days, and most of the surprises in an Algerian e-commerce project come from there rather than from the site itself.
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Replacing a system that still works
Four reasons justify replacing an old application. Outside those four, keeping it is almost always the right call — and nobody has an interest in telling you so.The cutover: running the old and the new at the same time
Replacing a system does not happen over a weekend. It happens across a period when both run, and that period has to be designed.Website, app or custom software: which one, and in what order
Three very different things share the name "IT project". Choosing the wrong one costs more than building the right one badly.Taking back a system nobody answers for: what can be recovered, what has to be rebuilt
Your site runs, your software runs, and whoever built them has stopped replying. A great deal of the answer is public and free.Custom software: the specification you write is not the one you need
Nobody knows what they want before using it. A complete specification written beforehand is a guess set down in the present tense.After version one: what evolving custom software really costs
Custom software is not delivered, it is put into service. Everything that matters afterwards turns on how you ask for a change.Why your website is slow — and what it costs you
Site speed is not measured on your desktop, and that is where the whole misunderstanding starts.A website does not break down, it goes out of date
Almost every website failure is silent: nothing stops, nothing alerts, and nobody notices before a customer does.E-commerce: what you are shown is the shopfront, what you are buying is the back office
Every demonstration shows the shop. All the cost and all the risk sit behind it, in the part nobody draws.Running an online shop: the day, the parcel, the return
A shop is chosen once and run every day. The second job is the one that decides whether the first was worth doing.Mobile apps: the weight and the asks decide more than the features
What makes people abandon an app is settled before the first feature: the download, the sign-up, the permissions.A published application: what it costs to keep alive
Development ends. The application does not: it ages on its own, on handsets you can no longer reach.Integrating CIB and Edahabia online payment
Cards are no longer the constraint: there are 21.9 million of them. What is missing is merchants who accept them.Online payment once it is live: reconciliation, refunds, disputes
Getting accredited takes a few weeks. Running the payments every day is the work nobody describes to you before the contract is signed.
Frequently asked questions
Do these articles assume technical knowledge?
No. They are written for an owner who has to decide, not a developer who has to implement.
Are the procedures described still valid?
Check the date: online payment procedures in particular change. We update the most-read articles when we see a change.
Can I apply this advice myself?
Some of it, yes, and it is written with that intention. What needs an intervention is flagged as such.
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