Anand Rathnas
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A JS-rendering service that costs nothing when idle: an ephemeral Browserless droplet baked from a snapshot, spun up only when there's a backlog, and reaped when it's done. Here's the architecture.
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The classic 'insert, catch the unique violation, re-read' pattern silently doesn't work with JPA — because save() doesn't flush, the violation fires at commit, outside your try/catch. Here's why, and the fix.
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You need to deliver a Slack alert exactly once, durably, from a multi-instance Spring Boot app — without Kafka or RabbitMQ. Here's a lease-based Postgres outbox that two pods can't double-send.
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We wanted a fresh database restore point before every migration, and a deploy that refuses to run if the backup fails. Here's the GitHub Actions setup that makes it impossible to skip.
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Starting a trial is a flag flip. Ending it right — downgrade at the correct time, keep the audit trail, don't double-run across pods — is the real work.
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You already have Stripe working perfectly. Then Apple says your mobile app needs IAP. Here's how I integrated RevenueCat with a Spring Boot backend without losing my mind.
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From Dev.to - cicd: One Push, Two App Stores: Parallel iOS and Android Builds with GitHub Actions
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From Dev.to - webdev: Why We Removed Ads from Our Free Tools (And Put Them Only on Blog Posts)
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From Dev Community: The Auth0 Pricing Trap: Why Upgrading to Paid Gives You Less
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From Dev.to - mobile: Publishing an Expo App to the App Store: The Parts Nobody Warns You About