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Ajay Patel
SSO single point of failure: what breaks when your identity provider goes down or is breached
The SSO single point of failure is two risks: an outage that stops new sign-ins and a breach that reuses live sessions. Here is how to contain each one.
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Vishal Gheravada
Next.js micro frontends in 2026: Multi-Zones, Module Federation or a different host
Next.js micro frontends in 2026: why nextjs-mf refuses the App Router, what Multi-Zones split well, what Vercel bills per zone, and when Modern.js fits.
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Ajay Patel
MVP development cost drivers: what sets the price of a first version
MVP development cost drivers with dated 2026 ranges: what moves the price, what a first version leaves out, and what a slipped week or no-code start costs.
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Ajay Patel
Does AI make custom software cheaper and faster? What to expect when you are paying for it
Does AI make custom software cheaper? Run the sum on your quote, see what did not speed up, and change how you scope and contract the work.
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Ajay Patel
Supplier portal build or buy: what decides it when parts need a sample approval
Supplier portal build or buy, judged by who logs in, which stages each route documents, and five-year list-price costs you can rerun with your own counts.
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Ajay Patel
WordPress to EmDash migration cost: what the move really costs over three years
WordPress to EmDash migration cost, line by line: the one-off labour, what Cloudflare adds each month, and a 3-year model with a break-even month.
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Ajay Patel
What a website performance audit includes, and what you get from one
A website performance audit should hand you field data, repeated lab runs on every template, the cause of each failure and a ranked list of fixes.
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Ajay Patel
Custom ERP development for companies abroad: build, extend or buy
Custom ERP development, extending a packaged ERP, or buying one: the operating facts that decide it, and how one bespoke build from India went.
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Tirth Bodawala
SSO implementation cost: what a single sign-on retrofit across your existing apps takes, phase by phase
SSO implementation cost for apps you already run: sort them by protocol, merge users, add MFA and SCIM, cut over in waves, and budget the run cost.
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Ajay Patel
Third-party API integration: what to plan for, what it costs and where it breaks
Third-party API integration planned from the vendor's own rules: rate limits, retries, tokens, paging and version changes as lines a quote must carry.
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Ajay Patel
SSO cost and IAM pricing in 2026: 23 options, the units they bill and the costs they leave out
SSO cost and IAM pricing for 23 options, read from each vendor's page on 26 October 2026: billing units, add-ons, contract floors and the wrong fit.
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Ajay Patel
The AI Approval Workflow Automation TypeLLM Can Run Inside Your ERP and SaaS
How much AI approval workflow automation TypeLLM should own in ERP and SaaS: typed calls, policy in code, human sign-off, 24-hour resume and run costs.
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