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Cost control
SELECT * on a 12,000-Row Table — The Query That's Silently Costing You Money

Discover how SELECT * queries silently inflate cloud bills, degrade performance, destabilize deployments, and expand your attack surface—and how explicit column selection fixes all four problems.

Aug 10, 2026 · 8 min read
Performance & bugs
The N+1 Query Problem — Why Your Dashboard Gets Slower Every Week

Learn why your dashboard slows down as data grows, how to detect the n+1 query problem, and three fixes that restore performance.

Aug 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Production readiness
What It Costs to Make a Vibe-Coded App Production-Ready

Hardening a vibe-coded app for production typically costs between 15 and 40 percent of what a full rewrite would cost. Learn the three paths—rewrite, contractor, or hardening—and their cost drivers.

Aug 10, 2026 · 9 min read
Production readiness
Day 23 — When "I'm in Vibe Coding Hell" Becomes a Checklist

Diagnose your AI-generated codebase for four failure patterns and execute a hardening checklist that fixes critical gaps while preserving working features—without starting over.

Aug 10, 2026 · 8 min read
Production readiness
From Alpha to Live: What Productionizing Actually Looked Like

Learn how to take your vibe-coded MVP from working prototype to production-ready product through systematic hardening, without the costly rewrite.

Aug 10, 2026 · 9 min read
Cost control
The Bill Autopsy — Reconstructing Where a $2,000 Month Actually Went

Learn how to analyze and control your startup's cloud and API costs by categorizing spending into four buckets and fixing the highest-impact culprits.

Aug 10, 2026 · 9 min read
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