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When clients expect AI: repositioning your agency
Your clients now expect AI. How to reposition an agency before the RFPs start demanding it.
FastYoke Engineering · 6 min read · Jul 9, 2026
- Partners
- Agency
- AI
Build vs. buy vs. configure: the third option most teams miss
The build-or-buy debate skips the option that fits most operations teams: configure a platform you own. When each one wins, and how to tell.
FastYoke Engineering · 8 min read · Jul 8, 2026
- Business
- aPaaS
- Strategy
Bulk-transition hundreds of records at once
Move hundreds of records through a transition at once — safely, and with a full audit trail.
FastYoke Engineering · 6 min read · Jul 7, 2026
- Tutorial
- Bulk ops
- Workflow
Type-level multi-tenancy: making "forgot the WHERE tenant_id" impossible
Tenant isolation is too important to leave to code review. Here is how the type system refuses to compile a query that forgets its tenant scope.
FastYoke Engineering · 8 min read · Jul 6, 2026
- Architecture
- Multi-tenancy
- Rust
- Security
The seat is dying: SaaS pricing when software gets cheap to build
For twenty years enterprise software meant renting seats in someone else's database-with-business-logic. AI is making that logic cheap to generate — and the pricing model built on it is cracking.
FastYoke Engineering · 10 min read · Jul 4, 2026
- Opinion
- SaaS
- AI
- Pricing
Getting internal apps onto employee phones — without the App Store
Regulated enterprises need internal apps on employee devices — but the public App Store is the wrong path. Here's the problem, and why we built FastYoke Substrate.
FastYoke Engineering · 9 min read · Jun 20, 2026
- Mobile
- Enterprise
- Compliance
- Substrate
Sovereign git, config as code, and how we built the Vault
If a customer's data and config should truly be theirs, git is the natural substrate. We already put our source and CI on a self-hosted git server — the Vault extends that to tenant data.
FastYoke Engineering · 9 min read · Jun 6, 2026
- Sovereignty
- Git
- Audit
- Config-as-Code
Why we built our own CI — in Go
We run on a self-hosted git server and needed CI we control and can reproduce over a huge Rust build. So we built it — with a small Go gateway and a Go pipeline library. Here's why Go, not Rust, for this layer.
FastYoke Engineering · 9 min read · May 23, 2026
- Go
- CI/CD
- CI
- Sovereignty
Running your code — safely, at native speed: why FastYoke chose WebAssembly
Every FastYoke tenant runs logic we didn't write, on shared infrastructure and hardware we don't control. Here's the sandbox that makes that safe — and fast.
FastYoke Engineering · 10 min read · May 9, 2026
- WebAssembly
- Multi-tenancy
- Security
- Sovereignty
FastYoke DB: why we ship two flavors of distributed SQL
Our default is a database file per tenant. For the workloads that outgrow a single VM, FastYoke DB is our roadmap for managed distributed SQL — designed around two engine flavors, with the same app code across both.
FastYoke Engineering · 8 min read · Apr 25, 2026
- Databases
- Architecture
- SQLite
- Distributed SQL
Why the FastYoke core is written in Rust
A multi-tenant engine that has to be memory-safe by construction — shipped as a single small binary that runs in the cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped. Here's why the core is Rust.
FastYoke Engineering · 9 min read · Apr 11, 2026
- Rust
- Architecture
- Multi-tenancy