A cloud hosting bill is usually high because you are paying for capacity that was provisioned, not for what your application actually used. The common causes are servers that are larger than needed or left running, data transfer out to the internet, managed da...
When a third-party API your software depends on changes, breaks or shuts down, the feature that uses it stops working or returns wrong results until s...
You move a website to a new hosting provider without downtime by building a complete working copy on the new host, testing it on a temporary address,...
Most business owners assume their application is backed up. Far fewer can say how much data they would lose if the database failed this afternoon, how...
Ask three developers where your application should run and you may hear three answers: serverless, containers, or a plain virtual server. All three ca...
Every business application eventually has to answer the same question: who is allowed to see and do what? The answer shapes the database, the screens,...
Most software projects now include an API, whether or not anyone asked for one by name. Your mobile app needs it to talk to your servers. Your account...
The worst way to learn that your application is down is an email from a customer. It is common in small companies, because nobody was assigned to watc...
Hosting is often decided late and then lived with for years. Yet the choice sets who patches the servers, who restores the database after a mistake, w...
Most founders can describe their core feature in one sentence. Far fewer can list everything else a SaaS product needs before a stranger will pay for...
Every change to live software carries some risk. A new checkout step, a pricing update or a security patch all alter a system that customers are using...
Every SaaS product has to answer one structural question early: when hundreds of customers use the same application, where does each customer's data l...
