startup Stop building sandcastles aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 1 A practical guide for founders on how to bootstrap a startup the right way, starting with domain registration, DNS on Cloudflare, and email setup with proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
angular Export your Angular component as a Web Component Front-end has changed a lot in the last decade. And web component is one, if not the, best feature now natively available on all the recent browsers. Here is a tutorial on how to export an Angular library into a web component. Context We had to build a dialer
loadtest Cheap DDoS on-demand or How to properly load test your application! How to run cheap, distributed DDoS-style load tests against your own API using Locust, FastHttpUser, and automated cloud workers, with a base setup you can extend.
automation Keep calm and release your API in prod Writing a REST API has become a standard in the industry for a few years already, just like the anguish of deploying it live, and watching Sentry spam your inbox of bug reports because you or your QA (which is you, with a hat) were not careful or imaginative enough.
hugo The future of the internet is static! AKA how we scaled to 10 million users in a minute without crashing How we replaced a fragile PHP stack with Hugo and Elixir to handle 10 million users in a minute, without crashing and without the hosting bill of a small country.
Why you should get ready for a Crystal era Lately, I have been talking a lot about Crystal - probably too much if you ask my coworkers at Kalvad. So let me explain once and for all why Crystal is such an amazing language and how it will quickly grow in popularity. Since I started to write code, I have
automation N8N on Clever Cloud A practical walkthrough for deploying n8n on Clever Cloud with PostgreSQL, basic auth, and a Git-based workflow, so you can self-host your automation instead of renting it.
ops Better monitoring with Visumonit! At Kalvad we monitor everything, we like to know that our services are up and running, it helps us sleep at night and wake up ready to face yet another day !
automation The Automation Paradox Automation is eating the world, but it's also one of the hardest task to begin with, especially in big corporations.
