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Selected writing from our engineers and partners. Published when there is something worth saying.

Why We Still Write Erlang in 2026

Karin Hjalmarsson on the architectural reasons we continue to choose Erlang/OTP for systems that must run for decades without restart, and what newer languages still get wrong about distribution.

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Migrating a 1991 Banking Core to Modern Hardware

Lars Dahlgren documents a four-year project to lift a venerable PL/I codebase onto contemporary infrastructure with zero downtime and full historical data preservation.

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What 38 Years of Long Engagements Teaches You

Senior partner Anna Lundgren reflects on the firm's anniversary and the engineering culture that has kept clients returning for decades.

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Threat Modelling for Sovereign Cloud Workloads

Elsa Lindqvist on how we approach security architecture for EU government cloud platforms, and where common threat models fall short.

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Five Things We Learned Running PostgreSQL for 20 Years

Petter Wallin on the lessons accumulated from operating PostgreSQL clusters at scale across two decades for our financial platform clients.

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Probabilistic Forecasting in Production Treasury Systems

Astrid Svensson on deploying Bayesian forecasting models inside production treasury platforms, and why simple models often beat complex ones in regulated environments.

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NMEA 2000 in Modern Vessel Routing Systems

Erik Norén on bridging legacy maritime protocols with cloud-native routing platforms, with examples from the Lighthouse Atlas system.

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GDPR-by-Construction in Clinical Informatics

Signe Olsson on the architectural patterns we use to ensure that clinical research platforms meet GDPR requirements without operational friction.

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Hiring for Engineering Judgement

Anna Lundgren on the take-home exercise we have used since 2008 and why it predicts engineering quality better than any other signal we have measured.

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