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Systems we built and still run.
Every case study here carries the constraints we worked inside, the decisions we made, and what each one cost us. Including the parts that went wrong.
Softrear publishes full case studies including architecture diagrams and the tradeoff behind every significant decision, rather than logo walls and unattributed statistics.
Regulated fintech
A ledger split out from under a live wallet, without a maintenance window.
A regulated wallet whose month-end load had outgrown a single deployable. We split the ledger, rebuilt the app, and cut over without a maintenance window.
Read the build →- Duration
- 14 weeks + run
- Team
- 2 senior · 3 mid · 1 SRE
- Stack
- Flutter · Spring Boot · Postgres · AWS
- Engagement
- Dedicated team
Earthmoving & heavy plant
Four OEM portals and a spreadsheet, replaced by one fleet record.
Four OEM portals and a spreadsheet, replaced by a single normalised fleet record and an offline-first app in every cab.
Read the build →- Duration
- 20 weeks + run
- Team
- 2 senior · 2 mid · 1 data · 1 SRE
- Stack
- Flutter · Go · Postgres · Timescale · GCP
- Engagement
- Dedicated team
Commerce
A checkout that failed slowly, made fast and recoverable.
A checkout that failed slowly on mid-range Android hardware, and a payment retry path that quietly gave up.
Read the build →- Duration
- 9 weeks
- Team
- 1 senior · 2 mid
- Stack
- Next.js · Node · Postgres · Stripe
- Engagement
- Fixed scope, then T&M
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