Offline-first is an architecture, not a feature flag
What four years of running ticketing systems across Zambian bus corridors taught us about designing for networks that are not there.
Leaf Saviour Siawela · Chief Executive Officer · · 3 min read
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Writing by the engineers and consultants doing the delivery — architecture decisions, things that went wrong, and what we would do differently.
What four years of running ticketing systems across Zambian bus corridors taught us about designing for networks that are not there.
Leaf Saviour Siawela · Chief Executive Officer · · 3 min read
An analysis of nineteen migration programmes, and the three decisions that separated the ones that reduced run cost from the ones that did not.
Tom Nelson Tembo · · 2 min
Feature matrices do not predict whether an ERP programme will succeed. These questions, asked before signature, do.
Fred Mwale · · 3 min
Selective disclosure changes who holds what data. It does not remove your obligations — it changes which ones apply.
Tom Nelson Tembo · · 2 min
Collecting payment is the easy part. Knowing, hours later, exactly what happened is where integrations quietly fail.
Fred Mwale · · 2 min
Teams do not bypass security controls out of malice. They bypass them because the compliant path is slower, and that is a design problem.
Tom Nelson Tembo · · 2 min