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Decisions that shape a product before and after launch: the five MVP architecture choices that are costly to reverse, SaaS versus custom software, replacing legacy systems with the strangler fig pattern, choosing a GCC software development company on evidence, and where AI fits in a design system.
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The strangler fig pattern replaces a legacy system one capability at a time behind a routing layer. Here's how to choose the first slice, give every data set one owner during the transition, and plan each cutover and its recovery path.
Judge a software development company on evidence rather than its pitch: give every shortlisted company the same brief, meet the team that will build your project, make the scope accountable, and agree handover and support before you sign.
The architecture choices worth making carefully in an MVP are the ones that are cheap now and costly to reverse: domain boundaries, data ownership, contracts, observability and reversible rollout. Scale-specific machinery can wait for evidence.
Before you compare prices, answer nine practical questions about fit, responsibility, data, integration, total cost, roadmap control, operations and exit. They show when to buy, when to build and when to combine the two.
AI can speed up the drafting work around a design system, from token documentation to variant matrices and scaffold code. The tokens, components, accessibility decisions and Arabic/RTL review still need an owner on your team. Here is where to draw that line.
