Self-hosting Postgres is not hard. Skipping one of these seven is. I build CrescoDB, a backend you deploy to a server you already rent, so I spend a lot of time thinking about what goes wrong on self-
I have 24 users and zero of them have deployed. If one of them deploys tomorrow and their server dies on Thursday, the only thing standing between them and a lost week is a backup I have never opened.
We're preparing an update focused on production monitoring and operational visibility. We're also addressing the confusing parts of our onboarding experience.
Why product focus, user feedback, and distribution matter more than an ever-growing feature list
Git-based deployment is useful for a reason. Your code lives in a repository, changes can be tracked, and deployments can follow a branch or commit. For a team shipping continuously, that workflow mak
One of the easiest traps in production is assuming: “The website is responding, so everything is fine.” It isn't. An application can technically be online while quietly falling apart underneath. Your
Has AI made you ship faster, or has it just moved the difficult part of your work somewhere else?
Most developers treat technical writing as something you do after you know what you're talking about. I've started thinking about it the other way around. Sometimes I don't realize how poorly I unders
Your Backend Works Locally. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Production-Ready #backend #webdev #node #devops