As today’s digital products scale, integrate with more third-party services, and adapt to rapidly shifting user expectations, engineering teams need architectures that can evolve just as quickly. That’s where microservices architecture has changed the game. Instead of building a single, large, tightly coupled application, microservices break software into smaller, independent services that work together, each with its own codebase, database, and deployment lifecycle. For organizations looking to innovate faster, reduce deployment risks, and modernize legacy systems, microservices offer a clear path forward. At Delta Systems, we’ve helped companies adopt microservices to modernize their products, improve reliability, and accelerate development. Here’s a deeper look at how and why microservices shape modern app development today.
On this special Thanksgiving episode of SaaS That App: Building B2B Web Applications, hosts Aaron Marchbanks and Justin Edwards stepped back from their usual deep-dive conversations about product architecture and growth strategies to celebrate something far more fundamental: the invisible support systems that allow founders to build meaningful businesses without destroying their marriages, their mental health, or their relationships with their children.
What if the right workflow engine could completely transform how your business handles compliance, onboarding, and mission-critical operations? For Vinay Patankar, Co-founder and CEO of Process Street, that question wasn’t theoretical; it was personal. In this episode of SaaS That App, Vinay joins the hosts Aaron Marchbanks and Justin Edwards to unpack how an early obsession with computers, a failed video startup, and a global packaging trip led him to build one of the most trusted workflow platforms for high-stakes industries.
Bringing a SaaS MVP to market is a race against time. Your goal isn’t perfection, but validation. But the choices you make in the early stages still determine how quickly you can ship, how efficiently you can iterate, and how smoothly you can scale once customers start paying attention. While there are many frameworks to choose from, few offer the speed, stability, and long-term flexibility of Ruby on Rails. For nearly two decades, Rails has powered some of the most successful SaaS products on the market, and for good reason: it’s unmatched when it comes to rapid development, strong conventions, secure defaults, and scalability when built correctly.
When Daniel Cannon bought his fixer-upper in Puerto Vallarta, he expected chaos. What he didn’t expect was the psychological déjà vu: the exact same emotional rollercoaster he’s felt during custom software builds, the mismatch between dream and reality, the “oh no” discoveries behind walls and inside code, the scope creep triggered by new shiny ideas halfway through a project, and the uncomfortable truth that the hardest part of any build isn’t the thing you want to build; it’s everything unexpected you discover along the way. This is the part nobody tells you: Whether it’s code or concrete, everything always takes longer, costs more, and changes more than you think it will. And that’s not failure. That’s the work.
When half the internet went offline because one single DNS record in one single AWS region got overwritten at the wrong millisecond, it was a very clear reminder for the entire world: even the most advanced, hardened, redundant, planet-scale infrastructure on Earth is still just infrastructure. It’s not magic. It’s not a guarantee. It’s someone else’s computer, and someone else’s software, with someone else’s race conditions, someone else’s delays, and someone else’s shortcomings. That’s why this AWS outage shook so many people.
Integrating new custom software into your organization’s existing systems can feel like replacing an airplane engine mid-flight; it has to be done with precision, planning, and minimal disruption. Whether you’re modernizing legacy applications, connecting ERP and CRM platforms, or creating a new data-driven tool, seamless integration ensures your technology ecosystem functions as one efficient, intelligent system.
What if the eight-hour gap between your 7 AM red-eye and 3 PM hotel check-in didn't have to be a caffeine marathon? That's the problem software engineer turned founder Jared Lerner of Nappr set out to solve, first with nap shops, then a consumer hosting pivot, and finally, a hotel marketplace that's now pacing at approximately 250 bookings a month.
Serverless computing has emerged as one of the most talked-about trends in software architecture. For companies building custom applications, serverless promises rapid scalability, reduced operational complexity, and lower costs, but it’s not without its trade-offs.
If you’ve ever felt the pressure to build big before you’ve even started, this episode of SaaS That App: Building B2B Web Applications is for you. Aaron Marchbanks sits down with Steve Powell, Co-Owner of Delta Systems, to unpack what two decades of building and scaling software have really taught him, from defining culture that lasts to shipping “stupid simple” products that actually solve problems.