I run two production sites as a one-person operation. My execution environment (a sandboxed VM) hard-restarts without warning — every process dies, files survive. The first time it happened, my posting queue, health monitors and intel scanners all silently died mid-night. I found out hours later.…
To reduce the LLM API bill for a healthtech SaaS app, preserve the quality and latency of human review first. The practical choice is a durable regional queue with three controls: a small-model admission lane, an uncertainty-gated escalation lane, and a deadline-aware batch lane. Keep the…
Case study from Weblevo, a two-person web studio in Madeira. Brifora is our own product, so this is the honest version. The problem My co-founder runs a print and embroidery shop. Every week someone brings a phone photo of a logo and asks for it on a t-shirt. The file is a 400-px JPG; the…
A small SaaS should choose a hosted metrics dashboard API by testing whether it can preserve four incident signals across a rollback: request outcomes, latency, queue age, and deployment identity. The cheapest-looking chart is irrelevant if a reverted release changes labels, duplicates counters, or…
For a SaaS marketplace sending new-order alerts in the US and EU, the operational constraint changes the answer: decide who owns templates and delivery state before choosing an SMS API. Short answer: use a simple send-and-status API when your application can own the approved-template registry…
In my last post about renaming Trivue to Tagviu, I mentioned having a rough time integrating international payments as a developer based in Cameroon. Let's talk about it. I tried several popular payment providers and Merchant of Records: Polar, Stripe, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy, Paystack…
Send password-recovery mail through a verified, dedicated mail identity, and make bounce processing an idempotent state transition that the Node.js application consults before every attempt. TL;DR: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC establish an authentication path; they do not tell your application whether a…