Software Architecture & Technical Insights
86 articles on Software Architecture & Technical from the Creuto engineering and product team: practical guides, trends, and lessons from building real software.
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.NET 10 vs .NET 11: picking a target before 10 November
Standard Term Support is now 24 months, not 18, which changes the .NET 10 versus .NET 11 calculation. Both .NET 8 and .NET 9 end on 10 November 2026, and .NET 11 raises its CPU baseline.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 14, 2026
GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles: what they pin and miss
GitHub now says SHA pinning is unnecessary once a workflow uses a lockfile. The adoption has three surprises in the diff, one gap around reusable workflows, and an Enterprise-only safe rollout mode.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 14, 2026
AWS Lambda Web Functions: what the billing model changes
AWS Lambda Web Functions run a standard Node HTTP server with no adapter. Requests cost 50% more than Event Functions and memory accrues while environments idle, so whether it is cheaper depends on your CPU-to-wait ratio.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 14, 2026
UAE payment gateway integration: what tables leave out
Telr's published UAE rates are banded by monthly volume, not card origin, and the comparison posts get both the number and the structure wrong. What actually decides a gateway: routing, idempotency, refunds, tokenisation and Jaywan.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
UAE cloud region: 55 services AWS doesn't run there
Choosing an in-country region satisfies a residency obligation and quietly removes services from your design. We counted the gap on each provider's own availability table on 9 October 2026, and priced it.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
UAE data residency: what actually has to stay in-country
The UAE's federal data protection law restricts cross-border transfers but never requires in-country storage. The hard localisation sits in banking and health rules the same law carves out — and there is still no adequacy list to rely on.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
NESA compliance UAE: what a vendor must evidence
The UAE Information Assurance Standard is at version 2.1 with 134 controls, not 188, and it binds ministries and critical infrastructure entities rather than their software suppliers. Here is what that means for a buyer running a vendor questionnaire.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
Fintech app development DIFC: what the DFSA rulebook adds
The DFSA stopped publishing its list of acceptable crypto tokens on 12 January 2026. What a DIFC fintech inherits is mostly an evidence layer: reconciliation, audit trails, retention and returns.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
UAE Pass integration: the approval is the hard part
UAE Pass publishes shared sandbox credentials anyone can use, so the protocol work is routine. Production access needs a UAE trade licence, an approved use case and two assessment rounds. Plan for that, not the OAuth.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 8, 2026
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