September 9, 2026
US companies exploring how to hire tech talent in Colombia or Mexico quickly run into three overlapping terms: Employer of Record (EOR), staff augmentation, and Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT). Vendors in each category tend to describe… Read More
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September 9, 2026
Cloud migration projects have risen sharply as enterprises accelerate digital transformation, with industry trackers reporting a roughly 41% increase in cloud migration initiatives across US businesses (Global Growth Insights, 2026). Yet cloud migration remains… Read More
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September 9, 2026
For years, companies evaluating external technical talent were told to pick a lane: staff augmentation, where external engineers integrate into your team under your management, or project-based outsourcing, where a vendor owns delivery of… Read More
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August 13, 2026
Cybersecurity has quietly become one of the hardest categories of technical talent to hire in the United States. Every AI initiative expands the attack surface. Every cloud migration introduces new misconfiguration risk. And every… Read More
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August 9, 2026
One of the most persistent misconceptions about nearshore staff augmentation is that the value shows up only after a long ramp-up period. In reality, the companies getting the most out of nearshore engagements have… Read More
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August 4, 2026
Every AI initiative, every analytics dashboard, and every machine learning model depends on a discipline that rarely gets the spotlight: data engineering. Someone has to build the pipelines, model the warehouse, enforce data quality,… Read More
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July 28, 2026
For two decades, time-and-materials has been the default pricing model for IT staff augmentation. Companies have relied on a rate card, a monthly invoice, and the assumption that hours worked equal value delivered. Today,… Read More
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July 27, 2026
Few architectural decisions generate more debate in software engineering than microservices vs. monolith. The microservices narrative dominated the industry from approximately 2014 to 2022, driven by high-profile Netflix and Amazon case studies. The… Read More
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July 22, 2026
Depending on who you listen to, the global software engineering talent shortage is either an existential crisis that will cripple the digital economy or a manufactured narrative that benefits recruiting firms. The truth is… Read More
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July 21, 2026
Durante más de veinte años en Cafeto hemos ayudado a empresas de Estados Unidos a construir equipos de tecnología en América Latina. En ese tiempo hemos visto cambiar la forma de contratar. Pasamos… Read More
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July 19, 2026
Ward Cunningham coined the metaphor of “technical debt” in 1992 to describe the accumulated cost of taking shortcuts in software development. The metaphor is useful but has a problem: metaphors are easy to dismiss. Read More
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July 16, 2026
En Cafeto hemos decidido lanzar un nuevo programa de referidos, con el fin de conectarnos con nuevos clientes. Nuestro objetivo es armar una alianza con cualquier persona que sienta que el enfoque de nuestro… Read More
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