Startup Tech Stack Trends
Insights from conversations with almost two hundred startups — what they are building with, and what changed when AI arrived.
Is Software Engineer Demand Peaking?
Salaries for senior engineers keep climbing even as layoffs make headlines — here is what is actually happening in the software talent market and what it means for your hiring budget.
Finding the Developer in the Haystack
Most engineering searches fail not because the developer doesn't exist, but because the recruiting approach can't reach them. Niche skills concentrate in specific employers, and those employers don't advertise their talent.
The Costly Mistake of a Poor Hire
The wrong hire doesn't just set you back — it drains budget, demoralizes teams, and can take months to recover from.
When to Go Low Code
Low code, AI code generation, or real code — here is how to choose the right approach for your startup's stage, product complexity, and long-term roadmap.
Your Dev Team is Offshore - How to Fulfill a Government Contract?
Government contracts often require US-based developers. Here is what to do when your engineering team is entirely offshore.
Learnings from 6 LLM Projects in 6 Months
Six months of shipping generative AI across healthcare, real estate, and fintech taught us that the gap between a demo and a production system is wider than anyone admits.
Fractional Developer Management to the Rescue
Your dev team isn't underperforming — it's missing the management layer that translates business goals into shipped software.
Accelerate Insurance API Integration
How Rikor leveled up their insurance brokerage platform with fractional technical leadership, project management, and onshore developer expertise.
Modernizing An Investment Analytics Platform
From Legacy Windows App to a Modern React / Python / Postgres Stack — a Technical Case Study
From Engineers to Teams
How Fraction evolved from placing individual fractional developers to building complete, high-performance product teams — and why startups are upgrading.
From Offshore to Onshore: How FundEasy Accelerated Application Upgrade with Fraction - a Case Study
When offshore cost savings turned into timeline bloat and miscommunication, FundEasy replaced its development team with onshore fractional engineers — and compressed a five-year roadmap into less than twelve months.
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