Notes from Esoteric Strats on building fast, resilient software for African infrastructure realities.
Every platform we ship at Esoteric Strats has to pass the same set of quiet tests. Does it load on a flaky connection? Does it degrade gracefully when a third-party API is down? Does it still make sense to a user who has never used a product like this before?
Those tests are not glamorous. They do not show up in a demo. But they are the difference between software that works in a boardroom and software that works in a market.
Our platform work in 2026 has taken us into logistics, government services, and financial infrastructure. The stack changes. The tests do not.


