How I built a tool that actually proves your backups work before you need them

<p>Every backup tool I've ever used tells you the same thing when it finishes: success. You get a green checkmark, an exit code of 0, and the job is done. What none of them tell

<p>I lost an evening last March because I assumed my host's backups covered me. They didn't. The nightly snapshot on my 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM box only kept seven days, and I needed a

<p>Recently, a client asked us for a way to back up their PostgreSQL databases. While the "standard" advice is often to pay for expensive managed cloud storage, we looked at their

<h2> The Quest Begins (The "Why") </h2> <p>I still remember the night our staging database went dark. A rogue migration script had wiped a critical table, and the only “backup” we

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<p>Eight months ago I was frustrated. I do strength training, <br /> running, and BJJ — and I needed three different apps to <br /> track everything. Strava for runs, Strong for

<p>Hey folks! 👋<br /> As a solo developer building for the global market, balancing performance, shipping speed, and server costs is always a tricky triangle. Recently, I launched

<p>The thing that breaks before 1,000 users is almost never the code.</p> <p>Not a race condition. Not a memory leak. Not a missing index. Founders assume their app will collapse