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22/04/2026

Most teams treat QA as an afterthought in healthcare AI products. That's expensive 💰

❌ Retrofitting compliance into a finished system costs 3–5x more and delays launch by months. And when PHI is involved, it's not just technical debt.

We built a full QA framework from scratch together with one of our clients, an AI-powered therapy documentation platform. No existing test infrastructure, non-deterministic AI outputs, HIPAA-compliant test environments required from day one.

Three things that actually work:

🟡 Testing AI output boundaries instead of exact content. Transcription and note generation aren't deterministic. You validate structure, required clinical sections, and response times, not identical strings.

🟡 Synthetic PHI is a compliance requirement, not a convenience. Real patient data in a test pipeline is a HIPAA violation regardless of intent.

🟡 BDD with Cucumber matters more in regulated products. Given/When/Then test cases are readable by compliance auditors and clinical reviewers, not just engineers.

🔥 Result: release testing went from several hours to 24 minutes. Automated regression detection on every build. QA stopped being the bottleneck.

Full case study on our blog, including the tech stack, environment architecture, and what breaks when you skip QA in medical AI products.

Link in the comments.

20/04/2026

New drop just landed at fireup.pro 🔥

Last week our office turned into a runway. The whole team got fresh tees and the excitement was real and Gosia, Patrycja and Szymon are clearly professional models, who just haven't figured it out yet.

White, black, tiny logo, because we like elegance and simplicity, not just in clothes 😎

If you're hitting any industry conferences this year and spot a crew in these shirts, come say hi. We'll talk tech, your product, or just about how good we look in these tees 👌

14/04/2026

🎙️ PROdcast wraca z kolejnym odcinkiem.

Tym razem Dawid Pastor rozmawia z Adam Krosnym, CEO fireup.pro, o tym, co naprawdę zmienia się w branży IT w 2026 roku.

🟡 Co się realnie skończyło w outsourcingu IT w 2026?
🟡 Na jakie kompetencje programistów stawiamy w szczególności?
🟡 Czego AI jeszcze długo nie zastąpi?

Link do odcinka w komentarzu 👇

10/04/2026

❌ Most CTOs decide to migrate from a monolith to microservices for the wrong reason.

Usually because someone in leadership read an article about Netflix.

Six months later the team is exhausted, delivery is stalled, and the new architecture is harder to maintain than what they started with.

We wrote about thise, the article covers:
🟡 4 signals that make migration worth doing (and 3 that say wait)
🟡 An incremental approach that doesn't kill delivery
🟡 A case study from a live healthcare system with 1.8M users, zero downtime
🟡 The hidden costs most teams don't see in the budget

https://fireup.pro/pl/blog/when-to-refactor-a-monolith-to-microservices

08/04/2026

🎙️ Prodcast to cykl, w którym opowiadamy o naszej organizacji.

W kolejnym odcinku Dawid Pastor rozmawia z Adamem Krosnym, CEO fireup.pro, na temat:

🟡 Co się realnie skończyło w outsourcingu IT w 2026?
🟡 Czy Time Material ma jeszcze sens?
🟡 Czego dziś poszukują poszczególne grupy klientów?
🟡 Na jakie kompetencje programistów stawiamy w szczególności?
🟡 Jak wygląda praktycznie wdrażanie AI w naszej codziennej pracy?
🟡 Czego AI jeszcze długo nie zastąpi?

🚀 Zapraszamy na nasz kanał!

Prodcast to cykl, w którym opowiadamy o naszej organizacji.Kolejny odcinek podcastu, w którym Dawid Pastor rozmawia z Adamem Krosnym, prezesem fireup.pro na ...

03/04/2026

Behind seven desks, beyond seven monitors, spring finally made it to our office 🌸

And it brought Easter breakfast with it. Coloured eggs, quail eggs, fresh vegetables and everything else that makes even the busiest people stop for a moment 🪺

🍬 Then something unexpected happened. Part of our Sweet Thursday decided to hide. Somewhere in the office, a little green egg was waiting for the most observant explorers 👀

But the real showdown was happening elsewhere. Two jars. One question that divides Poland for generations: which mayonnaise is better? Winiary or Kielecki? 🤔

Happy Holidays from the whole fireup team! 🔥

01/04/2026

U nos idzie godać po naszymu! 🟡🔵

W fireup.pro robimy dla klientów na cołki świat, ale w biurze mogymy godać jak nom wygodnie, bo tukej kożdy może być sobą 🔥

Spytalimy sie naszych developerów, co im się podobo w fireupie, obejrzcie co nom pedzieli! 👌

P.S Ja, ejaja tyż momy! 🤖

27/03/2026

Last Saturday we were at Boiling Frogs 2026 in Wrocław 🔥

Krzysztof Białek, Aleksander Pyszny, Igor Zuber, Patryk Bindacz, Michał Trela and Błażej Pelczar. Three parallel tracks running all day, so everyone picked what interested them most.

Topics ranged from deep technical stuff through architecture and security, to the things that hurt every team regardless of what they build. And a closing panel where five speakers talked about where the industry is heading over the next decade 💻

A good engineer is a good engineer regardless of the stack, and the agenda topics are relevant whether you build software for fintech, medtech or logistics.

We'll be back next year 🤝

25/03/2026

🇦🇹 Back from International Health Day 2026 in Vienna!

Our Consultant Jarosław Szczotka spent a full day at Wirtschaftskammer Österreich with people who are actually building the future of healthcare.

The B2B matchmaking format worked really well. Short, focused conversations. No fluff.

Two things from the case studies that stayed with him:

🟡 Change management matters as much as the technology. You can build the best product in the world and still fail if the people using it aren't brought along.

🟡 Digitalization of inefficient processes just makes them fail faster. Real innovation starts with rethinking the workflow, not automating the old one.

Good conversations, good people, good city.

Thanks to WKO Oberösterreich, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA and Enterprise Europe Network Austria for putting this together.

24/03/2026

🚀 55% of all healthtech funding in 2025 went to companies building AI. The year before, it was 37%. But before AI even enters the picture, most projects fail on something much earlier.

Working on medical system integrations in DACH, we keep seeing the same three problems, project after project:

🟡 Data from different sources doesn't speak the same language.CGM, EHR, patient app, external APIs each one talks differently. If nobody addressed that at the architecture stage, you won't fix it in the next sprint.

🟡 Regulations show up earlier than you think. ISiK, ePA, DiGA, EHDS in DACH, any of these requirements can surface at MVP stage. Not in production. Not at scale. At MVP.

🟡 A model fed inconsistent data introduces errors. In healthcare, there's no room for it.

We wrote about how to handle all of this both technically and from a DACH compliance perspective👇
https://fireup.pro/blog/healthcare-system-integration-dach-ai-platforms

23/03/2026

🇦🇹 Halo, Vienna!

Our Consultant Jarosław Szczotka has just landed in Vienna and is available for conversations this week.

If you want to talk about:
🟡 Running a mature product and facing a technology challenge that needs solving.
🟡 Scaling your startup and looking for the right tech partner.
🟡 Looking for a fresh perspective on your product before the next step.

This is a good moment to connect.
📩 Feel free to reach out directly via DM.

13/03/2026

5 technical challenges that will hit you when scaling a healthcare platform in DACH 🚀

A few questions worth asking before you get there:

🟡 How do you connect your app with medical devices that speak completely different protocols?
🟡What happens to your data architecture when you're handling millions of patient entries?
🟡 How do you maintain development velocity without introducing bugs into a system that directly impacts patient care?
🟡 Where does GDPR end and healthcare-specific regulation begin?

Based on our team's hands-on experience and the expertise of
Jarosław Szczotka, who has spent 15+ years bridging business strategy with real IT ex*****on across DACH and CEE.

https://fireup.pro/blog/healthcare-software-development-in-germany