Deployment & Infrastructure Guides
// 4 in-depth guides — written for developers who have to pick an approach and live with it
In-depth guides
How to Deploy to Production and Still Be Able to Roll Back
PaaS, containers, and serverless compared on the things that matter at 2am — rollback speed, health checks, migration ordering, and why zero-downtime deploys break on database changes.
6 min readHow to Set Up CI/CD Pipelines People Don't Learn to Ignore
GitHub Actions, platform-native, and self-hosted CI compared — caching that actually hits, why flaky tests destroy the pipeline's value, and securing secrets on forked PRs.
5 min readHow to Configure Custom Domains, Including the Apex Record Problem
A, CNAME, ALIAS, and the apex domain restriction that breaks naive setups — plus TLS provisioning, propagation reality, and picking one canonical hostname.
5 min readHow to Add Serverless Functions Without Melting Your Database
Node functions, edge runtimes, and background jobs compared — connection exhaustion, cold starts, the 10-second timeout, and why fire-and-forget silently drops work.
5 min read