Engineering notes — things I keep re-explaining, written down once.
- Choosing a Text-to-Image API for a Startup MVP: Cost per Image and Model Fit
- Pruning old records on a schedule: cron API or queue workers in a Node.js SaaS?
- An ADR for Small B2B SaaS Error Grouping, Search, Event Detail, and Resolution
- Picking a cron service for daily report emails behind a public webhook endpoint
- Log-Based Failure Alerts for Node.js Express APIs: A Practical Datadog Alternative
- Node.js Uptime Alerts: Polling Metrics APIs Every Minute for Failures
- Cron vs Queue for a Scheduled Daily Report Email: How I Choose the Backend
- Background jobs in Node.js and Express: enqueue on the API request, consume in a worker
- Delayed webhook retries in Node.js: queue design, idempotency, and public HTTPS workers
- FIFO vs standard queue for failed-job retries: ordering, deduplication, idempotency