Glazed - Elite Developers

Glazed - Elite Developers Glazed is a senior team of web and mobile developers based in Porto.

We craft high-impact digital products for fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce, helping ambitious companies across Europe and the US scale faster with reliable, scalable tech. Glazed is a boutique software development company based in Porto, Portugal, crafting high-impact digital products for ambitious, fast-growing teams. Our senior engineering team transforms complex challenges into scalable and

elegant solutions across fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, and AI-powered platforms. Since 2011, we have been the tech partner of choice for companies throughout Europe and the US, bringing ideas to life through robust code, agile collaboration, and a strong focus on quality. Whether you are building from the ground up or scaling something great, we help you move faster and go further.

Welcome back. 🌞→💻The weeks right after summer tend to be the calmest stretch before Q4 planning kicks in, which makes it...
31/08/2026

Welcome back. 🌞→💻

The weeks right after summer tend to be the calmest stretch before Q4 planning kicks in, which makes it exactly the right window to do the thing that keeps getting deprioritized: an honest audit of where your platform is holding up, and where it isn't.

We offer exactly that: a technical assessment of your ecommerce or delivery platform, no obligation, just a clear picture of what's working and what's likely to break under pressure later this year.

If it's been a while since anyone looked, this is a good week to start.
[email protected]

None of these show up as a single incident. They show up as a pattern, one your team is probably already aware of, even ...
30/08/2026

None of these show up as a single incident. They show up as a pattern, one your team is probably already aware of, even if it hasn't been named out loud yet.

If two or more of these sound familiar, it's worth a conversation, not necessarily a full rebuild, but an honest look at where the platform is actually constraining the business.

That's the kind of assessment we do before recommending anything.

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Over the past three months, we've published a series on what it actually takes to build commerce platforms that grow wit...
25/08/2026

Over the past three months, we've published a series on what it actually takes to build commerce platforms that grow without breaking.
Swipe through for the highlights, or catch up on whichever part fits where you are right now.
→ Slide 2: The architecture shift (May)
→ Slide 3: The performance discipline (June)
→ Slide 4: The fulfillment layer (July)
→ Slide 5: Why they're really one discipline

All three articles → blog.glazedsolutions.com

Over the past week, we've shown what a real-time marketplace platform looks like in practice (Mercadão) and what it take...
23/08/2026

Over the past week, we've shown what a real-time marketplace platform looks like in practice (Mercadão) and what it takes to build one (our Real-Time Marketplace & On-Demand Delivery Platform Development service).

If any part of that sounded familiar, inventory that lags behind reality, routing that can't keep up, integrations that require a rebuild every time you grow, we should talk.
Book a conversation with our team: [email protected]

Here's what Real-Time Marketplace & On-Demand Delivery Platform Development actually includes at Glazed:→ Real-time inve...
21/08/2026

Here's what Real-Time Marketplace & On-Demand Delivery Platform Development actually includes at Glazed:
→ Real-time inventory sync across every partner and channel, so what customers see matches what's actually in stock
→ A dynamic routing engine that allocates deliveries based on live courier data, not fixed rules
→ A partner API layer that lets new retailers or couriers onboard without touching your core systems
→ Infrastructure built to scale horizontally, so demand spikes don't force an architecture rebuild

This is the same approach we used to help Mercadão become Portugal's first two-hour delivery marketplace, and it's the approach we bring to every platform we build for delivery-first and marketplace businesses.

Every marketplace or on-demand delivery business eventually hits the same wall: growth outpaces the platform meant to su...
20/08/2026

Every marketplace or on-demand delivery business eventually hits the same wall: growth outpaces the platform meant to support it.

We just walked through how we helped Mercadão handle that exact moment: real-time inventory, dynamic routing, and infrastructure that scales without a rebuild.

This week, we're breaking down what that actually looks like as a service: Real-Time Marketplace & On-Demand Delivery Platform Development.

First question: when courier conditions change mid-shift, does your platform adapt on its own, or does someone need to notice?

More to come on what we build this week.

When your entire business model depends on a two-hour promise, the engineering partner you choose isn't a vendor. It's p...
17/08/2026

When your entire business model depends on a two-hour promise, the engineering partner you choose isn't a vendor. It's part of the product.

Gonçalo Soares da Costa, CEO at Mercadão, on working with Glazed:
"Top-notch development at Glazed allowed Mercadão to leverage on massive demand growth with confidence. Plus: they're great people to work with."

That's the kind of trust we work to earn on every platform we help scale.

Mercadão needed more than a delivery app. They needed a platform that could absorb demand multiplying in real time, with...
14/08/2026

Mercadão needed more than a delivery app. They needed a platform that could absorb demand multiplying in real time, without breaking the two-hour promise.

Swipe through to see the four systems Glazed built to make that possible, and what changed once they were in place.
→ Slide 2: Real-time inventory orchestration
→ Slide 3: Dynamic order routing
→ Slide 4: Post-purchase communication infrastructure
→ Slide 5: Partner API layer for retailer onboarding
→ Slide 6: The result

Full case study at glazedsolutions.com

When every minute counts, the architecture has to be built for real-time from day one.Here are some of the technologies ...
11/08/2026

When every minute counts, the architecture has to be built for real-time from day one.

Here are some of the technologies that we used to build Mercadão's platform:
⬡ Angular & React: fast, reliable interfaces across web touchpoints
⬡ Node.js: real-time services layer
⬡ AWS: infrastructure built to absorb growth without rebuilds

Order management logic, the inventory layer, and the routing engine were all separated, so each could scale and update independently.
A dynamic routing system allocates deliveries based on live courier data, not static rules.
A partner API layer lets new retailers integrate without custom engineering on either side.
Every choice was made so growth wouldn't force a rebuild.

Mercadão is Portugal's first two-hour delivery marketplace, connecting customers with retailers across multiple categori...
07/08/2026

Mercadão is Portugal's first two-hour delivery marketplace, connecting customers with retailers across multiple categories.

The promise is made fast. The engineering requirement is faster.

The challenge: coordinate high-volume, time-sensitive deliveries across multiple retailer partners and courier networks, in real time.

Inventory had to be accurate at the exact moment of purchase. Order routing had to adapt instantly to courier availability, proximity, and load. New retailers had to onboard without rebuilding core systems.

And the entire platform had to absorb significant demand growth without degrading the delivery promise.

More on how we approached it, next week.

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