# Alasco Tech Blog - Full index for AI agents Stories and learnings from our journey on building the SaaS project controlling tool Alasco. We value positivity, appreciation, ambition and trust! We are driven by the idea to make higher quality and affordable housing available to society. Canonical site: https://alasco.tech/ Sitemap: https://alasco.tech/sitemap-index.xml RSS: https://alasco.tech/rss.xml ## Posts - On building a time machine - URL: https://alasco.tech/2025/11/15/on-building-a-time-machine/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2025/11/15/on-building-a-time-machine.md - Date: 2025-11-15 - Description: How we implemented time-bound snapshots for one of the biggest tables in Alasco - Django friends with Postgres Row-level Security - URL: https://alasco.tech/2024/03/28/django-and-row-level-security/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2024/03/28/django-and-row-level-security.md - Date: 2024-03-28 - Description: How we leveraged Django abstractions to seamlessly integrate Postgres Row-level Security - How we serve static assets at Alasco - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/10/24/how-we-serve-static-assets-at-alasco/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/10/24/how-we-serve-static-assets-at-alasco.md - Date: 2023-10-24 - Description: How static assets are served in a Django React hybrid application. - React Testing Guidance - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/09/13/react-testing-guidance/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/09/13/react-testing-guidance.md - Date: 2023-09-13 - Description: React; Frontend; Testing; - Back to the Future: Our Tech Blog's Transition from Jekyll to Astro - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/09/06/migrating-to-astro/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/09/06/migrating-to-astro.md - Date: 2023-09-06 - Description: We've embarked on a cosmic journey, transitioning from Jekyll to the sleek Astro framework, all while channeling the spirit of innovation. - Visual Thinking — an essential skill in Product Management - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/08/21/visual-thinking-skill-in-product-managent/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/08/21/visual-thinking-skill-in-product-managent.md - Date: 2023-08-21 - Description: A practical look at how Alasco uses visual thinking to speed up discovery and sharpen decisions in complex B2B finance workflows. - Product and Engineering Hackathon Rabbit Hunt - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/07/11/hackathon-rabbit-hunt/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/07/11/hackathon-rabbit-hunt.md - Date: 2023-07-11 - Description: Lessons from Alasco's hackathon on collaboration, experimentation, and how selected ideas progressed toward production. - Accessible labels and where to find them - URL: https://alasco.tech/2023/01/13/accessible-labels-and-where-to-find-them-copy/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2023/01/13/accessible-labels-and-where-to-find-them-copy.md - Date: 2023-01-13 - Description: A hands-on accessibility guide for React apps, with reusable patterns for labels and units in data-heavy enterprise interfaces. - Cool URIs don’t change — but what if yours aren’t? - URL: https://alasco.tech/2022/03/23/cool-uris-dont-change-but-what-if-yours-arent/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2022/03/23/cool-uris-dont-change-but-what-if-yours-arent.md - Date: 2022-03-23 - Description: How we painlessly restructured our app URLs in Django - Changing the User model without breaking the crockery - URL: https://alasco.tech/2022/01/07/custom-user-model/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2022/01/07/custom-user-model.md - Date: 2022-01-07 - Description: How we switched from django.contrib.auth.models.User to a custom User model mid-project - How we started the Alasco design system - URL: https://alasco.tech/2021/10/11/how-we-started-the-alasco-design-system/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2021/10/11/how-we-started-the-alasco-design-system.md - Date: 2021-10-11 - Description: Launching a design system at a fast-growing startup - Hello FastAPI - URL: https://alasco.tech/2021/08/07/hello-fastapi/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2021/08/07/hello-fastapi.md - Date: 2021-08-07 - Description: We recently added a FastAPI-based setup alongside our main Django app. - It’s not about us, it’s about the user - URL: https://alasco.tech/2021/03/29/it-is-about-the-user/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2021/03/29/it-is-about-the-user.md - Date: 2021-03-29 - Description: How Alasco combines analytics and customer interviews to validate hypotheses and improve finance workflow experiences. - First international hire, 1 year on - URL: https://alasco.tech/2021/03/11/first-international-hire-1-year-on/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2021/03/11/first-international-hire-1-year-on.md - Date: 2021-03-11 - Description: A first-hand account of remote onboarding and the practices that helped Alasco scale collaboration in engineering. - Driving continuous improvement in our development process & practices - URL: https://alasco.tech/2020/11/30/driving-continuous-improvement-in-our-development-process-and-practices/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2020/11/30/driving-continuous-improvement-in-our-development-process-and-practices.md - Date: 2020-11-30 - Description: How do we drive continuous improvements in our development processes and collaboration at Alasco? This article gives you a sneak peek into our practices. - Lean UX at a SaaS Startup - URL: https://alasco.tech/2020/06/25/lean-ux/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2020/06/25/lean-ux.md - Date: 2020-06-25 - Description: A practical Lean UX playbook for B2B SaaS teams working in complex domains with limited user access. - Keep your frontend dependencies up-to-date - URL: https://alasco.tech/2020/03/16/keep-your-frontend-deps-up-to-date/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2020/03/16/keep-your-frontend-deps-up-to-date.md - Date: 2020-03-16 - Description: How Alasco automated frontend dependency maintenance to improve security posture and keep upgrades small and manageable. - Handling Money and Taxes in Python - URL: https://alasco.tech/2020/01/31/handling-money-and-taxes-in-python/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2020/01/31/handling-money-and-taxes-in-python.md - Date: 2020-01-31 - Description: How we deal with VAT and rounding in the backend at Alasco. Whats the difference between discrete money and exact money? Find out here! - Memory Monitoring on AWS Elastic Beanstalk - URL: https://alasco.tech/2019/11/12/memory-monitoring/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2019/11/12/memory-monitoring.md - Date: 2019-11-12 - Description: How we added memory monitoring to Elastic Beanstalk with the CloudWatch Agent to catch blind spots early. - Dependency Hell? Automate it Away! - URL: https://alasco.tech/2019/09/24/dependency-updates/ - Markdown: https://alasco.tech/md/2019/09/24/dependency-updates.md - Date: 2019-09-24 - Description: How Alasco uses CI automation and container diffs to keep base-image dependencies current and reduce deployment risk.