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Build an Anycast CDN
Build an Anycast CDN with BIRD and NGINX: get a /24, cache HTTPS, test failover, and add regional Anycast pools with GeoDNS.
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Build an Anycast CDN
Build an Anycast CDN with BIRD and NGINX: get a /24, cache HTTPS, test failover, and add regional Anycast pools with GeoDNS.
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Engineering
Running Next.js as a Node Server Without Lambda
Deploy Next.js as a Node server with standalone builds, systemd, NGINX, streaming, shared-cache decisions, and safe release rollouts.
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From Source to a Healthy Release: What a Deploy Actually Does
A deploy command crosses several boundaries: source packaging, build, runtime start, readiness, promotion, and public routing. Each can fail differently.
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How to Deploy an App That Uses a Private Git Dependency
A private dependency needs a credential during the build, but it does not belong in source code. A deploy key connects the repository without exposing your personal SSH key.
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Next.js SEO for Production: A Complete Guide
Configure Next.js SEO with server rendering, metadata, canonical URLs, sitemaps, JSON-LD, Core Web Vitals, and production release checks.
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How to Configure the Next.js Metadata API: Titles, Canonicals, and Open Graph
Use the Next.js 16 Metadata API for title templates, canonical URLs, dynamic metadata, Open Graph cards, and data-backed App Router pages.
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How to Build Programmatic SEO Pages with Next.js: Quality, Scale, and Crawl Control
Design and deploy programmatic SEO pages with Next.js dynamic routes, unique content, static parameters, caching, sitemaps, and safe invalidation.
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How to Add JSON-LD in Next.js: Article, Product, Software, and Breadcrumb Schema
Add safe, accurate JSON-LD to Next.js App Router pages with Article, Product, SoftwareApplication, and BreadcrumbList examples.
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Next.js SEO Audit: A Complete Guide to Finding and Prioritising SEO Issues
Audit your Next.js website for crawling, indexing, internal linking, content, and performance issues. Build an evidence-based SEO action plan.
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How to Build a Next.js SaaS for Production: Auth, Billing, Jobs, and Deployment
Build a production Next.js 16 SaaS with authentication, Postgres, subscriptions, background work, secure configuration, testing, and deployment.
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How to Design a Multi-Tenant SaaS in Next.js: Isolation, Routing, and Data Ownership
Design tenant resolution, database ownership, authorization, cache keys, jobs, custom domains, and deployment for a multi-tenant Next.js SaaS.
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How to Implement Authentication and Role-Based Authorization in Next.js
Build GitHub sign-in, database sessions, and workspace roles with Better Auth and PostgreSQL. Protect pages, Server Actions, and API routes.
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How to Build Stripe Subscriptions in Next.js: Checkout, Webhooks, and Billing State
Build Stripe subscription billing in Next.js with server-created Checkout Sessions, verified webhooks, local entitlements, and idempotent processing.
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How to Run Background Jobs and Reliable Webhooks in a Next.js SaaS
Design durable jobs, verified webhooks, retries, idempotency, deadlines, failure states, and observable background work around a Next.js SaaS.
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How to Build a Next.js Ecommerce Store for Production: Catalog, Checkout, Inventory, and SEO
Build a production Next.js 16 store with products, variants, carts, server-owned pricing, Stripe Checkout, inventory, SEO, and deployment.
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How to Configure Next.js Product Page SEO: Metadata, Schema, Images, and Variants
Build an indexable Next.js product page with canonical variant URLs, dynamic metadata, Product JSON-LD, optimized images, and accurate availability.
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How to Build a Cart and Stripe Checkout with Next.js
Implement anonymous and customer carts, server-owned prices, Stripe Checkout, signed webhooks, idempotent orders, and inventory validation in Next.js.
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How to Manage Inventory and Cache Invalidation in a Next.js Store
Prevent overselling with transactional inventory, reservations, idempotent webhooks, Next.js cache tags, targeted invalidation, and concurrency tests.
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How to Build Faceted Navigation in Next.js Without an SEO Crawl Trap
Build useful Next.js category filters while controlling canonical URLs, parameter normalization, pagination, crawlable combinations, and empty results.
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How to Build a Next.js Website for Production: App Router, Data, Caching, and Deployment
Build a production Next.js website with the App Router, Server Components, explicit caching, secure mutations, SEO, testing, and deployment.
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Next.js 16 Cheat Sheet: 75 App Router Patterns for Production
A practical Next.js 16 cheat sheet with 75 commands, file conventions, Server Component patterns, cache APIs, SEO fields, security checks, and deploy tips.
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How to Turn Claude-Generated Code into a Live Production App
Claude can help write the first version. The production work is keeping that code attached to source, config, previews, logs, and a deployment path.
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Source-Backed AI Workspaces vs. Sandboxes: Which Should You Use?
Sandboxes are good for experiments. Source-backed AI workspaces are for code that needs Git history, previews, logs, secrets, and deployment.
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How to Define a Deploy Contract for AI-Generated Apps
AI-generated code still needs a contract: build it, start it, configure it, check it, and route traffic to the exact version you reviewed.
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How to Run an MCP Server in Production: Auth, Timeouts, Logs, and Releases
A hosted MCP server needs the same discipline as an API: auth, input validation, timeouts, secrets, health checks, logs, and deploy history.
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Inside the Adios Edge Network: Ingress, Compute, and Failover
Fourteen current edge locations bring requests onto the Adios network. Here is what happens there—and what still happens in a compute region.
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How to Design Health Checks for AI-Built APIs
AI can generate an API quickly, but the platform still needs a truthful health endpoint before it should send production traffic.
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How to Keep Secrets Out of Source Code
Environment names can live in a manifest. Credentials should not. Secret references preserve that boundary from local work through production.
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How to Design a Small Production API
A production starter does not need dozens of abstractions. It needs a clear process boundary, predictable configuration, and enough signals to operate safely.
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Adios Templates for Apps, APIs, Databases, Caches, and Queues
The template catalog now reaches beyond a handful of app starters. It covers web apps, APIs, databases, caches, and queues in one place.
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How One adios.yaml Manifest Takes an App from Local to Live
A small adios.yaml keeps build and runtime decisions close to the code, whether the source starts in a local folder or a shared workspace.
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How to Choose a Project Template by Constraint, Not Hype
The best starter is usually the one that matches your team, data, and operating constraints—not the framework with the loudest launch week.
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