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We run a single shared Postgres container on our VPS that backs three services — a chip-shop catalog API, a receipt-scanning service, and an image-safety service — sitting behind two public-facing sites. Until recently, the only backups that existed were manual: someone would run pg_dump by hand right before a risky migration or data change, just in case. That worked,… Continue reading Setting Up Automated Postgres Backups to Azure Blob Storage

Most small businesses solve “we need a phone number with voicemail” by paying a flat monthly fee to a service like Google Voice or OpenPhone. That’s a perfectly reasonable choice — but if you’d rather own the code, pay only for what you actually use, and have full control over the call flow, you can build the same thing yourself… Continue reading Azure: Building your own voicemail-to-email service in the cloud