Scarcity as a Design Principle: Why the Software Built Under Pressure Outperforms the Software Built in Comfort
The most resilient enterprise software of the next decade may not originate in Silicon Valley—it may come from engineering teams who learned to build for users with intermittent connectivity, constrained hardware, and radically diverse needs. South Africa's technology sector has been running this experiment for years, and the results have implications for how US corporations think about software quality, scalability, and design.