Hey WIP, Bad day today. My Heroku console has 1803 critical errors :( Are critical errors common? Looking at the specifics: a) I'm using 1X professional heroku dynos. Surely they can handle this level of traffic? b) I made a big mistake with images. Trying to write them to Heroku. Hopefu...

How do you know that your production website or platform is up, performing well, and functioning correctly for your users?

I need the service to perform scheduled HTTP requests and ideally alarm based on the JSON response.

I am doing my first project on Firebase backend. It seems cool enough. Although, on the other hand PostgreSQL is so darn powerful. Anyway, does anyone know how I could set up firebase so I can get notifications when new users sign up? Also curious to hear any tips and tricks for using Firebase su...

Currently trying to differentiate when to use Servers & when to go Serverless. Serverless will scale infinitely, although it has 1 small cost of cold starts but if the site is used regularly then cold start is not needed. Servers are inherently costly. Even if we don't use it to its full potent...

Recently moved all of my apps to a $5/mo VPS using Coolify Saved tons of $$, and can self-host my NextJS/FastAPI/Ghost/Postgres instances etc. Coolify has an API that can be used to automate this setup for common self-hosting scenarios (NextJS, Supabase, Gatsby, Remix, Postgres, FastAPI, Mysql,...

What's the preferred free tier of the cloud services right now? More context: I need to run a basic web UI + API server (which could go to sleep if there's no traffic, but hopefully not!), a Postgres instance, and a constant background daemon.

I use Google Cloud bucket to store 10-second videos and photos that I use in the application. Thousands of users use the application every day, and I want to use a CDN to ensure that the content of the application is delivered to users with minimum delays and maximum speed. At the moment, I have...

For log management in general, I've used the Elasticsearch stack and Splunk at past jobs - but those are insanely expensive and meant for big companies. Way out of budget for now. I've also tried logz.io's free plan before but they dropped logs and the interface was pretty bad last I checked. Any...

My DigitalOcean droplet is getting an upgrade so I’m considering running more services on it. Right now I just run an IRC web client for myself and host some websites. Had previously ran OpenVPN on it but didn’t find the whole setup as bulletproof as using a third-party.

what are your favorite (3rd party) tools to keep your (bootstrapped) startups running?

this is the website https://bound2.app it comes in with a decent score on pingdom. And the page size is just 1.1MB. But the "wait" phase is nearly 15 seconds. And I can't work out why. Perhaps an old version of webpack / node config problem? This is a link to my github => https://github.com/cr...

Hi everyone, It’s been a while—I hope everyone is doing great and shipping a lot! :D I have a question: Recently, I’ve started creating some projects again and found that development in PHP is surprisingly fast for me. I don’t know why, but I’m enjoying it. However, I have a concern regarding d...

I'm working on something that might benefit more people than just me. I have a few questions: • How do you structure your dotfiles? • What kinds of settings do you keep in them? • How do you learn about settings or options you can add to them? • What applications do you include? • How do you bac...

Hey guys and girls, do you still use Heroku? I know they were hot like 5, 10 years ago but I'm not sure if that's true now? Thanks a bunch, Tom

So the original yeezy.dating is built using: a) Node b) Pug for templating c) Mongo DB (database) d) Passport for Auth I'm fairly solid in React so have decided on React.Native to replace Pug for the app. Other than that could I just stick with the same stack? a) Node b) React Native c) Mo...

I wrote code that forks and queues up and stops child processes but the processes themselves use up quite a bit of CPU. Is there a library that's particularly helpful with building these types of async/cron-like Node services? Wasn't finding anything in my search. Should I consider offloading ...