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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 3mo 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

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 ☁️ DevOps & Cloud 3mo 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

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 ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo 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...

Heroku just went into "sustaining engineering mode." Here are 5 alternatives whose free tier actually doesn't sleep.

Dev.to · Chalom Ellezam ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo 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...