Draw the boundary before you name the framework
Teams often pick a stack first. For custom web applications in small businesses, module boundaries deserve the first conversation.
Field notes
Practical writing on custom web application architecture for small-business teams.
Articles from LeafHub engagements and patterns we see repeatedly when small businesses design or repair custom web applications.
Integration debt: how five “simple” connectors become a night shift
Ad-hoc supplier feeds feel cheap until warehouse staff keep paper backups. A health review pattern for small-business web apps.
Who should sit in the architecture session?
If only engineers attend, operational surprises arrive later. A short guide to seating the right people for web application structure talks.
Buy more, build less — when advisory says stop
Sometimes the strongest architecture recommendation is to shrink the custom surface. How LeafHub handles that conversation.