A non-technical look at GroupVAN — the technology that connects APSG members to modern tools, keeps parts transactions fast and reliable, and turns everyday business into useful insight.

How we moved production off an aging EKS 1.29 cluster onto a fresh 1.36 one with a DNS cutover instead of an in-place upgrade — and the dev-cluster outage that taught us why.

The follow-up to "Why Flutter?" — what happens when you make the same framework bet across a whole product suite: shared components, a shared typed client, one product embedded inside another, and a small team that can build across all of it.

Why we're building Catalog on Flutter and Dart instead of the JavaScript/React default — the case for real types, compiled binaries, and an app that holds up at the parts counter.

GroupVAN is the B2B gateway that connects APSG members to the next-generation technologies serving their business, moving hundreds of millions of dollars in parts orders a year. Here's what it is, how it's built, and the data it powers.

A first note from the Federated Auto Parts engineering team — what this blog is for and what you can expect to find here.