Should you avoid managed services to prevent lock-in? Maybe. However, spending months reinventing infrastructure instead of shipping features is a bigger risk. Balance is key. Know the trade-offs, understand the costs, and make decisions based on your reality.
Transforming a legacy application into a multi-tenant powerhouse is no small feat. Learn how we tackled the challenges of adding multi-tenancy to a Laravel app, from infrastructure planning to custom bootstrappers, and discover practical tips to future-proof your applications.
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is vital for data-heavy businesses but often begins with manual workflows. Companies should identify inefficiencies, prioritise automation, and design a scalable ETL roadmap that integrates human reviews and evolves with business growth.
Many product companies are eager to leverage tools like ChatGPT. But how do you go from experimenting to running in production? Let's explore choosing the right large language model (LLM) to understand hosting options, ensuring an efficient and sustainable AI implementation.
Learn how non-technical metrics can help control operational costs in tech startups. This article explains the importance of understanding real infrastructure costs and the cost of change to prevent your business expenses from spiraling out of control.
Documentation is vital in remote organizations. Companies with little documentation often struggle to get started. With this pragmatic advice however you can get the ball rolling. These are five documents every startup should have, and you can get started with them today.
Implementing a malware scan for file uploads using ClamAV on DigitalOcean, this post details setting up a pragmatic solution despite infrastructure limitations. It covers the initial approach, technical setup, challenges, and potential improvements for a secure file-handling system.
Discover why simpler infrastructure beats autoscaling for startups. Learn about evolving from shared servers to cloud solutions, the need for testing, and minimalist approaches. Essential for founders and engineers seeking smart infrastructure strategies.
Have trouble documenting your infrastructure? Infrastructure as code might be the solution you are looking for.