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📰 Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam

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I deployed 12 vibe-coded apps to production. The same 6 things broke every single time.
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I deployed 12 vibe-coded apps to production. The same 6 things broke every single time.
Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and Claude Code ship great prototypes. Production exposes the same 6 holes every time. Here is what to fix before launch.
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Your crontab is silently failing. The 5 silent killers of VPS-based cron jobs (and the modern setup that fixes them in an afternoon).
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your crontab is silently failing. The 5 silent killers of VPS-based cron jobs (and the modern setup that fixes them in an afternoon).
Cron itself isn't broken. Cron observability on a $5 droplet is. The 5 specific patterns that drop scheduled jobs in production, plus the modern setup that give
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Your Stripe webhook is going to silently drop a paid customer. Here are the 4 patterns that catch it before they chargeback.
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam 1mo ago
Your Stripe webhook is going to silently drop a paid customer. Here are the 4 patterns that catch it before they chargeback.
Stripe webhooks fail. Yours will too. Four patterns that prevent the 'paid customer with no access' disaster, with Node.js and Postgres code, plus the daily rec
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Your indie SaaS has zero working Postgres backups. Here's the 20-minute fix (and the drill you need to run before you sleep tonight).
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam 1mo ago
Your indie SaaS has zero working Postgres backups. Here's the 20-minute fix (and the drill you need to run before you sleep tonight).
A no-AWS, no-S3-quagmire backup strategy for solo founders running Postgres. The 4-line cron, the restore drill, and the 3 mistakes I see weekly on review calls
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The Claude Code production checklist: 15 things that aren't obvious until they bite you
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Claude Code production checklist: 15 things that aren't obvious until they bite you
Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. This list applies to any platform;...
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I migrated 12 client projects off Heroku. Here's the playbook (and the 7 things that bit me every single time).
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I migrated 12 client projects off Heroku. Here's the playbook (and the 7 things that bit me every single time).
Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. Six of these 12 migrations landed...
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How I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)
Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. This bot runs on HostingGuru's Pro...
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I built my MVP with Claude Code. Now I need to deploy it. Here's what nobody tells you.
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I built my MVP with Claude Code. Now I need to deploy it. Here's what nobody tells you.
Disclosure up front: I'm a senior backend tech lead by trade and I run HostingGuru, one of the...
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Heroku just went into "sustaining engineering mode." Here are 5 alternatives whose free tier actually doesn't sleep.
Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Heroku just went into "sustaining engineering mode." Here are 5 alternatives whose free tier actually doesn't sleep.
In February 2026, Heroku quietly announced it was entering "sustaining engineering mode" — shifting...
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