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Observability: Making an Invoice Request Explain Itself

A successful response says the invoice workflow finished. It does not explain where the request spent its time. Lab 07 explores that gap through a Go service that loads an invoice, reserves inventory, calculates commission, generates a PDF, and sends a notification. The useful question is not just “Is the endpoint working?” It is “What happened inside this request, and which dependency explains…

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Build a restaurant homepage with Webbit, a free Windows website editor

I made Webbit for people who want to edit a website visually while keeping ordinary HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. It’s a free Windows app, currently in Beta 1.

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  • Customize headline to "Fresh plates" using Content → Text / label
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Realtime Channel and Message Queue Durability for Collaborative Cursor Notifications

A realtime channel makes a collaborative cursor notification immediate; a message queue makes its recovery durable. The awkward constraint is that replaying every old coordinate after a reconnect is…

  • Realtime channel enables immediate cursor updates
  • Message queue guarantees durability with state ordering
  • Monotonically increasing revision number ensures state consistency

stripe told me my webhook was broken. i found the email 17 days later.

this one's a bit embarrassing. Akiko has a premium tier that runs through Stripe, and for about ten weeks every webhook Stripe sent her dashboard failed. i had no idea.

  • Akiko experienced 10-week series of webhook failures on Stripe premium tier
  • Outdated Express backend moved to Next.js caused delivery issues
  • Akiko discovered email from Stripe buried under 17 days of unread messages

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