Odoo
Building Production KRA eTIMS and Safaricom M-Pesa Integrations for Odoo 19
How we engineered real-time KRA eTIMS fiscal signing, Safaricom M-Pesa Daraja auto-reconciliation, and offline VSCU queues across Odoo 17, 18, and 19.
Ken Mwaura
DevOps
Building Managed Odoo Infrastructure in Kenya: What We Shipped This Week (August 5, 2026) 🛠️🇰🇪
An engineering deep-dive into resolving Odoo tax group POS errors, zero-downtime tenant migrations, CI/CD hardening, and moving internal tooling behind Authentik SSO.
compliance
Understanding KRA eTIMS: What Every Kenyan Business Needs to Know in 2026
The KRA eTIMS deadline isn't coming — it's here. If your business issues invoices in Kenya, this is what you need to know and what happens if you ignore it.
SaaS
You Don’t Need a $100 Cloud Bill to Build a Real SaaS
We’ve quietly accepted that spending $100/month on infra before you have a single customer is normal. It shouldn't be. Here is how to build a production-ready SaaS on a $5 VPS.
Architecture
The Cloud Exit Strategy: Architecting for Independence
We have normalized paying hundreds of dollars a month for infrastructure before acquiring a single customer. It's time to reject the complexity tax and return to the $5 VPS.
Automation
Building a WhatsApp-to-Odoo Flow With JengaFlow and n8n
Turn WhatsApp messages into Odoo Sales Orders automatically. Here is the blueprint for building a no-code automation flow with JengaFlow and n8n.
Fintech
Daraja API in Production: Lessons From Processing STK Pushes at Scale
Integrating with M-Pesa's Daraja API is a rite of passage. But in production, network timeouts and user behavior make it messy. Here are our hard-won lessons.
Architecture
Containerized Odoo Tenancy: How We Isolate 100+ Instances Safely
True multi-tenancy in 2026 isn't about sharing resources—it's about sharing the control plane while isolating the data. Here is how JengaStack secures client databases.
Compliance
eTIMS for Kenyan SMEs: What KRA Actually Requires in 2026
Tax compliance shouldn't require expensive hardware. Here is the 2026 reality of eTIMS compliance, explained without the jargon.
SaaS
Orchestration at Scale: Why We Chose Komodo Over Kubernetes
Kubernetes is the industry standard, but for most startups, it's a suicide pact. Here is why we chose Komodo—a lightweight, Docker-driven orchestrator—for JengaStack.
engineering
Why We Built JengaStack — The Engineering Behind Kenya's First Managed Odoo Platform
Most ERP hosting providers just spin up a container and call it a day. We couldn't accept that. Here's why we built our own platform from scratch — and why that matters for Kenyan businesses.