Operations
Running the site in production: deploys, migrations, backups, preview databases, and pulling prod data.
The SEO Plugin That Ate My Admin Sidebar
The Cache That Didn't Know the Database Changed
Adding Bugsink Error Monitoring (and the Three Bugs I Found Testing It)
Next.js, Vercel, Turbopack, Deployment, Preview Environments
What actually ate the GitHub Actions minutes
What my Neon spending alert was telling me
The GitHub Actions bill wasn't a runner pricing problem
The cleanup job that deleted nothing
How I Backed Up a Database I Can't SSH Into
The backups for a database I can't run pg_dump against
The preview database that was still production
Pulling Production PostgreSQL Data Into Local Dev, Safely
Deploying vs. Operating: What Broke After the Site Went Live
What Actually Happened Deploying This Site
Planning the Move to Production