Incidents are frustrating for everyone involved, from developers to users. This article teaches how a little bit of communication can go a long way.
AWS's us-east-1 region went down, temporarily taking OnlineOrNot's uptime check service with it. Here's what we learned.
You're getting dozens of alerts each hour, and you're pretty sure you can ignore most of them. But what if one of them was legit? This article helps you improve your error alerting.
AWS Lambda is supposed to mean great scalability, but what happens to your database as you scale?
It's been 8 months of building OnlineOrNot, here's an update of how the last two months went.
Just over six months ago I started OnlineOrNot by building an MVP in a single week sprint. Here's an update on how it's going.
You shouldn't be getting paged again and again for the same issue. This article describes ways to continuously improve your team's on-call experience.
If you've just joined a company that expects you to be on-call, you might find you're pretty anxious at the thought of getting paged. This article aims to help manage your on-call anxiety.
You might be asking yourself 'do people still self-host their databases'? Let's discuss the benefits of managed-services versus self-hosting, to help you decide.
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
As someone running a website for a global audience, you might be confused about where to host your website. This article has answers.
Just over two months ago I started OnlineOrNot by building an MVP in a single week sprint. Here's an update on how it's going.
You've probably noticed a high First Contentful Paint result while testing with Google Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights - the question is, how do you reduce it? This article has answers.
Confused about why VPS plans are cheaper than Shared Hosting, and when you'd want to use one over the other? This article has answers.
TTFB, FCP, LCP, TTI, WTF? Google Lighthouse involves quite a bit of jargon, so let's unravel it all.
Every 100ms slower that your site responds, costs you 1% of your revenue. Here are ten ways you can fix that.
Things can get pretty hectic as a solo founder working on your own service. Let's discuss ways to make the anxiety of letting your business run itself go away.
Chances are, your monitoring service sends you alerts. Where you choose to send them can have a big impact on your team's ability to respond to them.
In 2018, building a similar SaaS (involving payment and email integrations) would take over a month. In 2021, it took me one week.
Migrating between Wordpress hosting providers is complicated as it is - the last thing you need is downtime. Luckily, it's avoidable.
Your domain name is the foundation on which your entire online presence is built, so let's learn how to avoid losing it.
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