Harnessing Large Language Models for Efficient Software Development
Introduction The recent wave of agentic large language models (LLMs) has persuaded many executives that code can now be generated at the press of a button. Seasoned engineers know better: when used naïvely, an LLM…
How to Optimise Software Development Costs
Custom software development is often associated with substantial costs. However, contrary to widespread assumptions, a significant proportion of these expenses arise not during programming itself, but far earlier—at the stage of architectural design. It is…
Implementing an automated Code Review service
In the current technology-driven landscape, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) assistants has become a competitive necessity rather than an optional luxury. To remain at the forefront of innovation and efficiency in software development, Software Planet Group…
From Legacy to Containers: Transforming Project Infrastructure
In today's rapidly evolving software development landscape, maintaining secure, consistent, and easily manageable infrastructure environments is crucial. In our recent initiative, we took over a client's project previously developed and managed by another vendor. Our…
From Memset to Amazon S3: How We Moved Critical Data with Near-Zero Downtime
Our client faced an urgent challenge: migrating their entire infrastructure from Memset Cloud Storage to IOmart (with Amazon S3 used as a foundation), as Memset had been acquired by IOmart and was shutting down its…
Top 10 Tech Events in London in May 2025
As London springs into May, the city once again becomes a hive of innovation, technology, and thought leadership. From APIs to AI, service desks to software design, this month’s line-up of events includes some of…
Heroku Ruby Migration In Less Than 2 Weeks
Migrating legacy systems to contemporary stacks is an inevitability for CTOs and technically inclined CEOs managing scalable operations. Beyond simply maintaining security updates, these upgrades offer strategic opportunities for application modernisation, performance optimisation, and infrastructure…
Vector Databases Without the Fluff
What Is a Vector?A vector is a numerical representation of an object. For instance, a two-dimensional vector could look like (2, -3). You can imagine it as a line segment from the origin (0, 0)…
Are Software Developers Becoming Obsolete? Welcome to the Future Powered by OpenAI Agents
Imagine a software developer who never tires, writes flawless code, debugs instantly, and deploys seamlessly. Now picture hundreds working simultaneously. This isn't science fiction—it's the new reality offered by OpenAI's revolutionary AI agents, transforming the…
Dependency Roulette: How One Tiny Update Took Down Production
Third-party dependencies are a double-edged sword—convenient until they suddenly break everything. Here’s a real-world incident from our collection that perfectly illustrates this risk.The Setup: How We Managed Python DependenciesWe use the pretty standard and simple…