Glazed - Elite Developers

Glazed - Elite Developers Glazed is a senior team of web and mobile developers based in Porto.

We craft high-impact digital products for fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce, helping ambitious companies across Europe and the US scale faster with reliable, scalable tech. Glazed is a boutique software development company based in Porto, Portugal, crafting high-impact digital products for ambitious, fast-growing teams. Our senior engineering team transforms complex challenges into scalable and elegant solutions across fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, and AI-powered platforms. Since 2011, we have been the tech partner of choice for companies throughout Europe and the US, bringing ideas to life through robust code, agile collaboration, and a strong focus on quality. Whether you are building from the ground up or scaling something great, we help you move faster and go further.

Myth or fact? 🤔“AI is changing how engineering teams work." According to DORA's 2025 research, AI adoption among technol...
16/10/2026

Myth or fact? 🤔
“AI is changing how engineering teams work." According to DORA's 2025 research, AI adoption among technology professionals reached 90%, with more than 80% reporting productivity improvements.

But faster coding doesn't necessarily translate into faster delivery.

DORA describes AI as an amplifier of existing engineering capabilities. Teams with strong foundations can accelerate their performance, while those struggling with technical debt, inefficient workflows or fragile infrastructure may find that AI makes those limitations even more visible.

When developers produce code faster than teams can review, test and deploy it, the bottleneck simply moves further down the development pipeline.

The real opportunity isn't just to generate more code. It's to build engineering systems capable of turning that increased output into reliable, scalable software.
Engineering velocity is ultimately about delivering valuable changes consistently, without compromising quality.

💬 Is AI helping your team deliver faster, or simply produce more code?

Most engineering teams came back from summer, opened the backlog, and started shipping again.Fair enough. But the platfo...
14/10/2026

Most engineering teams came back from summer, opened the backlog, and started shipping again.

Fair enough. But the platform kept running the whole time, and it’s been taking notes.

Before the Q4 pressure really kicks in (Black Friday, year-end releases, board commitments), here’s the 8-point health check we’d run now:
→ Platform health
→ Incidents
→ Performance
→ Infrastructure & cloud
→ CI/CD & developer experience
→ Dependencies & security
→ Technical debt
→ Q4 readiness

Save it. Share it with your engineering leads. Run it this week.
It all comes from our September article, “Your Developers Were on Holiday. Your Platform Wasn’t.”

Full article → blog.glazedsolutions.com

Summer is over. Q4 is already here. And your platform spent the last few months working while part of your team was away...
08/10/2026

Summer is over. Q4 is already here. And your platform spent the last few months working while part of your team was away.

It’s been taking notes the whole time:
→ Latency that crept up without triggering an alert
→ Small incidents that look unrelated but share the same root cause
→ Cloud costs that shifted with no clear explanation
→ Workarounds that quietly became “the way we do things”

None of these is a crisis on its own. Together, they can decide whether your roadmap holds up through Black Friday, year-end releases, and Q4 commitments.

Our latest article covers a practical engineering health check to run before you speed up again. It looks at platform health, incidents, technical debt, CI/CD, cloud, and whether your platform still fits where the business is heading.

Sometimes the backlog needs more developers. Sometimes it needs a better architecture. Knowing which one is yours can save months.

📖 Full article → https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-developers-were-holiday-platform-wasnt-glazed-solutions-gpcue/

This month, we opened up two Glazed case studies: Farfetch’s multi-tenant commerce platform and LVMH’s multi-brand conve...
06/10/2026

This month, we opened up two Glazed case studies: Farfetch’s multi-tenant commerce platform and LVMH’s multi-brand conversational platform.

Different requirements. Different architectures. Same approach: understand the real problem before writing a single line of code.

If your team is facing a technically complex challenge, a highly customized product, or simply needs the right engineering partner to move forward, September is a good time to talk.

[email protected]

Happy birthday, Rui! 🎉Or Figo, as the team knows him.Yes, his birthday was yesterday. But Rui loves functional programmi...
04/10/2026

Happy birthday, Rui! 🎉
Or Figo, as the team knows him.
Yes, his birthday was yesterday. But Rui loves functional programming, so we went with lazy evaluation: the wishes are only computed when they're needed. And they're needed now. 😄

Rui is a full-stack engineer who genuinely believes in software's transformative power. React and Node.js, Python, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and Terraform for the infrastructure underneath, with plenty of eCommerce experience along the way.

He adapts to new stacks quickly and cares deeply about what matters long after launch: maintainability and performance.

A dedicated problem solver who keeps pushing boundaries and leaves the code better for whoever touches it next.

Here's to another year of clean code and fast systems, Figo. 🚀

Building a separate app for every brand creates duplication.Building one platform capable of generating distinct branded...
02/10/2026

Building a separate app for every brand creates duplication.

Building one platform capable of generating distinct branded experiences is a different engineering problem entirely.

For LVMH, Glazed created a shared foundation that could adapt at multiple levels, from styling and product data to visual search and payments.

Swipe through to see how the architecture worked.

→ Slide 2: The shared platform model
→ Slide 3: Brand-level styling in one command
→ Slide 4: Brand-specific product experiences
→ Slide 5: Visual search
→ Slide 6: On-device purchases

Case Study: LVMH. Part 3 of 3.

Your team took a break this summer. Your platform didn't.While engineers were off the clock, production kept running:> l...
30/09/2026

Your team took a break this summer. Your platform didn't.

While engineers were off the clock, production kept running:
> logs accumulating
> latency shifting
> cloud costs quietly climbing
The question isn't whether anything happened. It's whether anyone looked.

In our latest article, we break down the September Engineering Health Check: the 7 areas every returning team should review before Q4 hits. We cover platform behavior, incident patterns, technical debt, and whether your architecture can really support what the business expects next.

Because faster code (AI-assisted or not) doesn't mean faster progress if the foundations underneath can't keep up.

🔗 Read the full article today at our linkedin page.

23/09/2026

Autumn starts today. Somewhere between summer's momentum and the final push toward year-end, most teams are re-evaluating their stack, their roadmap, or both.

A few things at Glazed don't change with the season:
🍂 React & React Native: still helping us build fast, responsive experiences across web and mobile.
🍂 Django & Node.js: still the backbone of the systems we build to last.
🍂 Kubernetes & AWS: still scaling quietly in the background, whatever the weather.
🍂 A senior-only team: still the standard, not the exception.

New season. Same standard.
Happy first day of autumn from the Glazed team.

Building a conversational platform for multiple luxury brands meant creating flexibility at every layer.Here’s some of t...
22/09/2026

Building a conversational platform for multiple luxury brands meant creating flexibility at every layer.

Here’s some of the technology behind LVMH’s branded experiences:
⬡ Google Assistant & Alexa Skills: extending conversational experiences across leading voice platforms.
⬡ IBM Watson Assistant & Dialogflow: bringing conversational capabilities into a platform designed to adapt across branded experiences.
⬡ Elixir: providing a strong foundation for concurrent, real-time applications.

Different technologies. One flexible foundation for multiple branded experiences.

Case Study: LVMH. Part 2 of 4.

World Gratitude Day is a good excuse to say the obvious out loud.We're grateful for the clients who bring us problems wo...
21/09/2026

World Gratitude Day is a good excuse to say the obvious out loud.
We're grateful for the clients who bring us problems worth solving, and trust us enough to hand off the parts that matter most.
We're grateful for a team that treats every codebase like it's their own, whether it's a two-person MVP or a platform running for a $1B company.
And we're grateful for the chance to keep building things that hold up under real pressure, every single day.
Thank you, from all of us at Glazed.

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