Engineering stories, deep dives, and lessons from real projects we shipped with our partners.
Reliable Data Flow for the Hedge Fund
#FORGESOFT team was approached by a prominent hedge fund to help with their business growth and to seize the opportunity to capitalize on relevant market data built into the workflow and established trading processes.
XForge AI DePIN Phone — The Story Behind. From Idea to Shipping
Most products don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because they never make it out of planning and execution. XForge could have been one of those.
Stop Arguing in PRs. Let Your Code Handle It Instead
We build mobile apps all the time at our company. Every time we start a new Flutter project, the same comments show up in pull requests sooner or later.
Building a Mobile Platform: Where Every App Begins
Every team starts with a blank repository, which feels like real freedom — until the sixth time you make the same structure, only slightly differently. The folders, architecture, workflows, scripts, features, and decisions are the same yet not identical, and that “not” is where inconsistency begins.
Is feature skeleton code generation still relevant in the age of AI?
If you’re looking for the short answer: yes, it is.
Your Team Is Wasting AI Credits (Here’s How to Fix It)
We know what it’s like to lead a team full of ideas, tight deadlines, and the promise of AI tools making everything easier. But sometimes, credits disappear quickly and you’re left with nothing to show for it. Real efficiency isn’t just about moving fast — it’s about using AI carefully and thoughtfu
Mediocrity is the new black in the post-LLM world
These days, there’s a lot of excitement around LLMs (large language models) and AI. Some people are moving into new roles as software engineers, designers, or writers, and many of them think that using AI is the best way to solve their problems. However, there is bunch of reasons why LLMs can’t fix
Why Most Companies Are Not Ready for AI Agents Yet
In the past year, nearly every software vendor has started calling something an AI agent. You’ll see the term everywhere, from scheduling tools and customer support bots to internal search and sales platforms. Most of the time, though, these so-called agents are really just smart autocomplete featur
Building a Mobile Platform: Why We Stopped Rebuilding Everything
At #FORGESOFT, we build projects repeatedly — sometimes from scratch, sometimes alongside clients, and often under tight timelines. Mobile applications are usually at the center of that effort.
A 40 Hour Journey with AI — Zen Launcher. Building Production Grade Application Solo
As AI and large language models change the way we build software, I started wondering if one developer could make a production-ready, public product in just 40 hours. This goes beyond a basic prototype — it’s about creating a polished app with professional design, smooth integrations, and Chrome Web
AI DePIN XForge Phone — Experience of building the project
But here, I’ll answer a few hot questions that informed and guided our technical decisions while working on the project
Shipping projects philosophy
The way we at #FORGESOFT work with partners matters. We are a deploy-forward, AI-augmented systems engineering company building solutions that become a foundational part of our partners’ business. We know how hard it is to ship secure, compliant systems that are still genuinely useful for customers.
Feedback: A Leadership Tool or a Morale Wrecking Ball?
Throughout your life, when you want to grow and develop yourself to become a better version of yourself, you must analyze the progress of your doings and holistically explore all angles of the situations you encounter. Whether you are facing personal or professional, intimate or political, public or
Engineering Organization Objectives
This article is a result of me a couple of times joining new companies in a CTO position and trying to answer some important questions I was asked during the first few months by my colleagues.
5 Main hiring objectives in IT organizations
The hiring process of any staff in any organization is the first and most likely the last stage where you can affect the trajectory of the business through the people’s culture. Many companies worldwide acknowledge how important to have the right person in the right place with the right motivation.
Applications autoscaling strategy in Kubernetes
With all the cloud providers giving us more and more abilities to precisely control the level of resources for our applications infrastructure, we still need to define (closely monitor and control) how much CPU, RAM and I/O our system needs and pay only for the just enough. And what about resilience
The best architecture with Docker and Kubernetes — myth or reality?
How has the world of software development changed in the era of Docker and Kubernetes? Is it possible to build an architecture once and for all using these technologies? Is it possible to unify the processes of development and integration when everything is “packed” in containers? What are the requi
Kubernetes & production. To be or not to be?
Hundreds of containers. Millions of external requests. Myriads of internal transactions. Monitoring and incident notifications. Simple scalability. 99.9% uptime! Deployment and rollback.
Forming a PostgreSQL cluster within Kubernetes
When you work on a database management system, trust and hope is what matters the most. Well, really, this is what a database is! You’ve got to trust it to store your data, and hope it won’t just fail one day. The title conveys the whole point — a place where data is kept, the main task is to STORE.