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How to Plan a Website Structure Before Development

A sitemap drawn after the design is often a record of decisions that have already been made. A useful site structure starts earlier: it connects visitor tasks to pages, content types, navigation, and…

• Focus on visitor goals and interactions before structuring the site.
• Map out pages that help visitors achieve their tasks in a clear hierarchy.

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A few things I check before choosing hosting for a client

A few things I check before choosing hosting for a client I’ve managed InterServer VPS and DirectAdmin hosting for clients.

• Evaluate total cost beyond advertised specs like RAM and storage.
• Test site performance with curl command for real-time response.
• Clarify update, recovery, and backup responsibilities with hosting provider.

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Six posts, 98 views, zero reactions. I'm changing one variable and publishing the result either way.

I have six posts on dev.to, going back to October 2. Here is every one of them with its view count, pulled this morning from /api/articles/me/published : published piece views Oct 2 The press said a…

• Six posts published on dev.to since October 2
• Post about Enceladus plume has 98 views, no reactions
• Platform analytics endpoint provides 5-day window and 27-day total

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Build vs Buy in the Agent Era: A Decision Framework for SaaS Teams

Build vs Buy in the Agent Era: A Decision Framework for SaaS Teams Two years ago, "build vs buy" meant choosing between writing your own auth service and paying for Auth0.

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No cloud to lean on: building a reliable data platform on a bank's own servers

Replication, failover, graceful shutdown, autoscaling and alerting usually arrive as managed services. Inside a bank, you build them from Kubernetes, an operator or two and a lot of small decisions.

• Bank builds reliable data platform on its own servers using Kubernetes.
• System processes file uploads, cleans files, loads into Iceberg data lake.
• Measures reliability, fault tolerance, high availability, scalability, and observability.

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