Choosing a Self-Hosted CTF Platform with Enterprise Support
I sit in on enterprise CTF evaluations. Here's what actually matters — and where Battlegrounds fits against CTFd Enterprise, Hack The Box, TryHackMe, and Immersive Labs.
Field notes from the engineers building Fionetix products — ERP, AI automation, cybersecurity, and the craft of shipping software that organizations actually rely on.
I sit in on enterprise CTF evaluations. Here's what actually matters — and where Battlegrounds fits against CTFd Enterprise, Hack The Box, TryHackMe, and Immersive Labs.
A product-and-delivery retrospective on shipping an ISP subscriber self-service app — the four bets that shaped delivery, the things we got wrong, and the discipline that kept v1 small.
Notes from shipping a Django personnel system without a frontend framework — including the auth pitfalls and UI bugs that cost us the most time.
The engineering companion to our ISP app retrospective — mock-first service layer, silent token refresh, WebView host interception for payments, and bilingual-by-convention UI.
What it actually takes to build legal case management software for banks: the maker–checker constraint, a dynamic form engine, and the audit trail that has to survive a regulator visit.
The engineering story behind a mining intelligence platform we built for a sector-expert client — their thesis, our build: lifecycle signals, macro meltdown warnings, peer-relative valuation, and a three-layer management validator.