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# How we build Bynder

The decisions, detours and rewrites behind the platform you build on — told by the engineers who made them. Real trade-offs, honestly documented.

[Read the latest on Bynder Tech ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech)[Start building](https://developers.bynder.com/apis)

## [Engineering & architecture](#engineering-architecture)

How the platform gets designed, modernised and kept honest — from REST API semantics to retiring legacy frontends. Newest first.

### Understanding and improving accessibility

August Aldred · Sep 9, 2024

A worked accessibility example from Content Workflow. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/understanding-and-improving-accessibility-an-example-from-content-workflow-110a1dc5f505)

### Diving into data modeling with a Software Engineer mindset

Marc Soler Colomer · Jun 17, 2024

Applying engineering principles to data modeling decisions. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/diving-into-data-modeling-with-a-software-engineer-mindset-65782289db84)

### Capturing Intent in a REST API

Roald Bankras · Feb 21, 2024

How Bynder designs API resources that express _why_ a change is happening, not just what changed. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/capturing-intent-in-a-rest-api-2403a5d3d89d)

### Strangling Legacy Code: Bynder's Frontend Modernisation Journey

Bogdan Moisa · Dec 19, 2023

Incrementally replacing a legacy frontend with the strangler-fig pattern. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/strangling-legacy-code-bynders-frontend-modernisation-journey-68dc01f65eeb)

### Enabling Innovation: The Importance of Software Architecture

Orsi Luckacs · May 15, 2023

Why deliberate architecture is what makes fast product iteration possible. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/enabling-innovation-the-importance-of-software-architecture-9121ecb1ce9d)

### How we learned to trust our developers with infrastructure changes

Miguel Alexandre · Jul 14, 2022

Handing infrastructure ownership to product teams, safely. [Read the article ↗](https://careers.bynder.com/blog/how-we-learned-to-trust-our-developers-with-infrastructure-changes/)

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## [Ways of working](#ways-of-working)

Good software is a team sport. These are the leadership, autonomy and inclusion lessons our engineers learned the hard way. Newest first.

### "Turn the ship around!" — The military tale of how giving up control leads to success

Mona Yamile · Mar 18, 2024

Leadership lessons on handing control to the people closest to the work. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/turn-the-ship-around-the-military-tale-of-how-giving-up-control-leads-to-success-4ba691bc8a6f)

### Ditch the fraud police: embrace your inner impostor

Ana P. Soares · Apr 6, 2023

On impostor syndrome, and reframing self-doubt as a sign of growth. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/ditch-the-fraud-police-embrace-your-inner-imposter-92147bc92fc8)

### Beauty and the beast — A tale of ADHD in Agile teams

Mona Yamile · Mar 8, 2023

What Agile ways of working look like through the lens of ADHD. [Read on Medium ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech/beauty-and-the-beast-a-tale-of-adhd-in-agile-teams-fe8779839d78)

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## [Never miss a post](#never-miss-a-post)

New articles land on the Bynder Tech publication — architecture deep dives, post-mortems and the occasional strong opinion.

[All Bynder Tech articles ↗](https://medium.com/bynder-tech)