Engineering blog

At some point, most platform teams face a common challenge: how to provide engineers with timely, auditable, and secure access to production (or staging) databases—without blowing a hole in security or flooding Slack with manual approval chaos. At Blueground, we've implemented a fully automated, self-serve process using:

Introduction Building an AI-powered knowledge base for your teams is faster, easier, and more cost-effective than you might expect. You don’t need to engage expensive knowledge base vendors or invest in heavy bespoke solutions—instead, with emerging tools like Cloudflare’s AutoRAG, Next.js, and a modest amount of

At Blueground, the majority of our services require data for testing end-to-end user journeys, whether client-facing or operational. Consequently, we need to de-identify PII from production data to provide our engineers with realistic datasets. This approach ensures our pre-production systems mirror the behavior of production environments in terms of data

Jetpack Compose simplifies UI development with a declarative approach, improves productivity with live preview, and offers a modern, reactive framework for building dynamic and interactive user interfaces. In simple words, it makes it fast, easy, less error-prone, and funny to do complex UIs. At Blueground, we needed to create an