Fixed-price web projects punish the client who learns
The claim A fixed-price software contract does not remove your risk. It sells you the risk back at a markup and then charges you again, through change orders, every time you learn...
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DMARC at p=none is not email authentication
The claim A published DMARC record with a policy of none protects nobody. It asks receiving mail servers to report on forged mail and then deliver it anyway. Most Canadian business...
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Your health check should touch the database
The claim An endpoint that returns 200 unconditionally is worse than having no health check at all. It converts a loud failure into a silent one: your load balancer keeps routing t...
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A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis
The claim Backup coverage is the wrong metric. The only number that describes your actual risk is the elapsed time of your last successful, verified restore into a clean environmen...
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Use Postgres full-text search before you reach for a search cluster
The claim Below roughly a million searchable rows, PostgreSQL's built-in full-text search is not a stopgap. It is the correct answer, and adding a separate search cluster at that s...
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Your $12 VPS costs about $600 a month
The claim The invoice is not the cost. For a small Canadian business running its own site on an unmanaged virtual private server, the true monthly cost of ownership lands somewhere...
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The physics case for hosting Canadian traffic in Canada
The claim Most arguments for keeping Canadian workloads on Canadian infrastructure are legal ones. Those arguments are real but negotiable — contracts, addenda, and standard clause...
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Most business sites should render HTML on the server
The claim For a marketing site, a product catalogue, a booking flow, or an internal dashboard with a few hundred users, server-rendered HTML with a modest amount of JavaScript will...
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