# ZarkiTech Insights

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ZarkiTech Insights publishes original engineering, AI, software, product and technology content based on practical studio experience.

- [How We Built an AI Vehicle Inspection System From 10 Photos](https://zarki.tech/insights/building-ai-vehicle-inspection-system) — A production-minded approach to vehicle condition capture: ten photos, a constrained vision pipeline, and the booking workflow a dealership can actually run.
- [React Native vs Native Development in 2026](https://zarki.tech/insights/react-native-vs-native-2026) — When a shared React Native codebase is the right production bet, and when iOS and Android should still be native — written from apps we actually keep in production.
- [What We Learned Building Software for Gaming Platforms](https://zarki.tech/insights/software-for-gaming-platforms) — Field notes from shipping software around games: identity, wallets of attention, live ops, and why a gaming client is not a normal CRUD app with a darker theme.
- [MCP and the Future of AI-Assisted Software Development](https://zarki.tech/insights/mcp-ai-assisted-software-development) — Model Context Protocol is not a chatbot feature. It is how tools, repos, and internal systems become callable — and why that changes how a small studio ships.
- [The Real Cost of Building an MVP in 2026](https://zarki.tech/insights/real-cost-of-mvp-2026) — What actually costs money when a first version ships in weeks: scope, integration surface, distribution, and the team that still has to run it — without a fake price list.
- [Expo vs Bare React Native for Production Apps](https://zarki.tech/insights/expo-vs-bare-react-native) — Expo is no longer the training-wheels SDK. Here is when we stay on Expo for production, and when we eject to a bare React Native app with native projects in git.
- [Building Scalable Booking Platforms](https://zarki.tech/insights/building-scalable-booking-platforms) — Bookings look like a calendar widget. They are actually inventory, payments, and dispute state. How we model that for dealerships, trainers, and anything with a scarce slot.
- [How We Design Production-Ready NestJS Backends](https://zarki.tech/insights/production-ready-nestjs-backends) — The NestJS shape we keep using for production APIs: modules as boundaries, boring auth, explicit events, and observability you can run at 2am.